What do you burn?

[RainbowChild]

Having been traveling to glastonbury since the nineties i know the benefit of a good fire, whether to sit around with friends or to attract new ones, to cook on or most importantly to keep you warm in the early hours at the stone circle.

Over the years my festival has changed hugely, first festival, no ticket, little money, no tent...a bin liner and a can of lynx if i remember right were the only luggage. Now we take the whole family, Me Wife and three children and the kids love a good fire even more than dad.

Over the years we have tried burning just about anything that moves....more memorable things .Blankets from Joe Bananas Just for reference these burn with a beautiful blue green flame. Mountains of paper ups have been sacrificed also. The last few years we have been a little more prepared with self lighting bbQ bags and fake logs that are meant to burn for 3 hours (bollocks by the way)..

This year i plan on bringing some big logs from a tree we felled ealylier this year... probably another journey back to the car just for these..(is this to far to go far a decent fire?)

So what have you burnt, what are you planning to burn and has anyone ever found the fire wood store that i hear mentioned every year but never find.

[Kizzie]

Took a bag of coal one year (yes I know very ungreen, but it was the eighties man)

Also had a sofa, a rug and a standard lamp that year too.

[RainbowChild]

Took a bag of coal one year (yes I know very ungreen, but it was the eighties man)

Also had a sofa, a rug and a standard lamp that year too.

[APC]

GLASTONBURY SPECIAL DEAL

2m3 of freshly cut poplar and smashed up pallets

DELIVERED TO YOUR TENT

£120

WOOD YOU BELIEVE IT?

[RainbowChild]

GLASTONBURY SPECIAL DEAL

2m3 of freshly cut poplar and smashed up pallets

DELIVERED TO YOUR TENT

£120

WOOD YOU BELIEVE IT?

[dan05delaney]

Justin Bieber Poster and Calenders I am going to "aquire" from my cousin

[FloorFiller]

evidence

lots and lots of evidence...

[rumpola]

I love a good fire. One of my fave parts of the festival is sitiing around the fire at night chatting/drinking/whatevering.

There has been wood piles dotted around the various campsites in years gone by, but they do tend to go very quickly so you need to get at them not long after the gates open on a Wednesday.

Also, there is/was a wood shop on the path between the Pyramid and John Peel I think. Generally sells bags of the compressed logs and two of those will last a fair few hours.

[Chimps in Balaclavas]

If you get on site early enough, you'll find tons of free wood. I usually use that.

[ArcticGorilla]

Day 1: Wood

Day 2 : Last bit of wood

Day 3: Food Debri

Day 4: Chairs

Day 5: Tents & Gazebos

[alframsey]

Since I stopped going with my uncle I don't really have any kind of fire but when we went together we'd have one each night. He came pretty prepared with some kind of fire pit and a load of wood he collects throughout the year, the man can get a fire going anywhere! Even with damp wood if needs be. One of the things I miss about not going with him anymore, really did love sitting around it at night.

[dan05delaney]

I will make a point of punching anyone that burns a tent, I've seen a fire take out a group of tents in about 5 mins once they get going they can burn a tent in seconds

[glastofever]

The candle at both ends!

[ArcticGorilla]

For the record I was joking about tent burning in the earlier post.

Don't burn tents, Jesus wouldn't.

[Moon Monkey]

Tents

is this not the R&L page?

[abdoujaparov]

Haven't bothered with a fire for years - now we usually end up round the fire pit in the helping fields, much more sociable and no need to hunt for things to burn

[ethereal]

Flags

[Zoo Music Girl]

Just curious - where do people build campfires? Where we camp there's just no room for one and if we left that much space in the middle of our campsite someone would pitch there.

Much as I wouldn't go back there, it was nice to have campfires at Reading. Having said that, I spend a lot less time at the campsite at Glasto.

[RainbowChild]

Flags

[Kyelo]

Just curious - where do people build campfires? Where we camp there's just no room for one and if we left that much space in the middle of our campsite someone would pitch there.

Much as I wouldn't go back there, it was nice to have campfires at Reading. Having said that, I spend a lot less time at the campsite at Glasto.

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

Virgins.

[Sawdusty surfer]

I usually make a few of these to burn at our gaff. This pic is of some larger ones that I did at Shambala a few years ago.

I sometimes have a few smaller ones to sell as well

[Sawdusty surfer]

And here's a particularly large one from Glasto 2011

[Kyelo]

Virgins.

[abdoujaparov]

I have seen people using small metal drums, so the fire is always safe and secure.