COOL STUFF
Here are some ideas of some cool projects to do with the boys. All these projects need adult supervision and remember to keep safe while doing these projects. Please let the Leadership know if you are interested in helping out with any of these project ideas. If you know of anymore project ideas please send them to Dan Hughes at bsapack28cresthilldhughes@gmail.com
This amazing trick is perfect for your next camping trip, or you know… if you just want to impress your most nature-loving friend. Here, you’ll learn how to make a very simple alcohol burning soda can stove.
Making your own chess set can be as easy as digging around in your dad’s spare parts drawer.
Wing nuts, anchor caps, bolts, washers and a few other odd pieces of specialty hardware are all you need to make your own version of the “tool chess” set.
Bio-lite Camping Stove
Consider the humble camping stove. It requires fuel - perhaps some unwieldy bottle that air carriers object strongly to. Maybe it needs batteries to run a fan, or billows out smoke so you smell like smoked sweatshirt for the rest of the trip. The solution might be the BioLite stove - it's a collapsible wood-burning cook stove that uses almost any forest-found fuel and converts its own heat energy into electricity to achieve efficient combustion with ultra-low emissions.
Solo Stove
Designed with a double wall, the Solo Stove is a natural convection inverted downgas gasifer stove. The air intake holes on the bottom of the stove channel air to the bottom of the fire while at the same time, channels warm air up between the walls of the stove. This burst of preheated oxygen feeding back into the firebox through the smaller holes at the top of the stove causes a secondary combustion. This allows the fire to burn more complete which is why there is very little smoke during full burn. A more efficient burn also means you'll use much less wood compared to an open camp fire. The Solo Stove doesn't just burn wood. It actually cooks the smoke out of the wood and then burns the smoke not once, but twice!