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Backwoods

You can use a billy, a cast-iron pot, or an upturned bowel to bake or roast in for short camps, but always put whatever you are cooking, in a second container, and if possible lift it up on some stones or something to let the air circulate round it. Pile the ashes and fire all round the pots but don’t cover the top, unless you are using a Dutch oven specially made for this purpose, sometimes you can suspend the billy over the fire.

Just a couple of the things you can bake in your camp oven.

You can make an oven out of a biscuit tin, using the lid as a door, and you can make a handle from a small branch cut to size and bolted to the lid. You can make the shelf out of flat metal, or an old grill, or some square mesh, but bend the ends to support it. Alternatively have something made just for the job

You can build your oven over a trench fire and vent it with a chimney, or build it into a small bank, and make the chimney out of old tins with the bottoms cut out stacked on top of each other, or use some metal pipe.

Another oven that is used all over the world, is one made entirely of clay, but because this type of oven takes a bit more time and preparation to make its only suitable for more permanent camps. Although it takes more time to make this oven its well worth making, and once made you will wont to make more,

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Activities involving all aspects of backwoods have the potential to be dangerous, especially those involving fires, and sharp tools, because of this, all health and safety precautions should be undertaken at all times. If you decide to replicate any of the activities, shown and described on these pages, they must be done under the supervision of a responsible instructor, and under no circumstances attempted by an un trained person. Because safe working can only be assessed on site by the person organizing the activity, no responsibility can be accepted for incidents arising from the use of this material.

	Backwoods
	You can use a billy, a cast-iron pot, or an upturned bowel to bake or roast in for short camps, but always put whatever you are cooking, in a second container, and if possible lift it up on some stones or something to let the air circulate round it. Pile the ashes and fire all round the pots but don’t cover the top, unless you are using a Dutch oven specially made for this purpose, sometimes you can suspend the billy over the fire. Just a couple of the things you can bake in your camp oven. You can make an oven out of a biscuit tin, using the lid as a door, and you can make a handle from a small branch cut to size and bolted to the lid. You can make the shelf out of flat metal, or an old grill, or some square mesh, but bend the ends to support it. Alternatively have something made just for the job You can build your oven over a trench fire and vent it with a chimney, or build it into a small bank, and make the chimney out of old tins with the bottoms cut out stacked on top of each other, or use some metal pipe. Another oven that is used all over the world, is one made entirely of clay, but because this type of oven takes a bit more time and preparation to make its only suitable for more permanent camps. Although it takes more time to make this oven its well worth making, and once made you will wont to make more,

	1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 Activities involving all aspects of backwoods have the potential to be dangerous, especially those involving fires, and sharp tools, because of this, all health and safety precautions should be undertaken at all times. If you decide to replicate any of the activities, shown and described on these pages, they must be done under the supervision of a responsible instructor, and under no circumstances attempted by an un trained person. Because safe working can only be assessed on site by the person organizing the activity, no responsibility can be accepted for incidents arising from the use of this material.