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Sat, 1 Oct 1994 08:39:07 AEST+1000 |
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> Allen Dick 546-2588 writes:
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> > We currently use burlap sacks cut into strips on a bandsaw for fuel. Can
> > lite a smoker in 20 seconds that will burn all day, using a 6 inch square
> > piece of newspaper crumpled up to start.
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> I'm not sure how many different methods there is in lighting up a smoker,
> (maybe we can make it into a discussion), but the way my dad has always
> done it is as follows:
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> He would get a hessian sack, (the type you used to buy potatoes in), cut it
Which I believe tha americans call burlap......
> into a 6 x 3 inch strip, put it in the smoker and light it. It would
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> Could anyone verify if this is a common technique among apiatrists!
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> Steven.
Any apiarist I have met who has been doing it for thirty or fourty
years (with the exception of one....) recomend this as their first
choice: heshian and something. For some it is heshian and
eucalyptus, for some it is heshian an corrugated card, for some it is
heshian and pine.
When I was just starting out though.....I asked a "more experienced"
apiarist for help with something or other...I don't recall what, and
I lit up the smoker using sacking. He took all the sacking out and
hung it in a fence to burn, so that I wouldn't use it again, and
spent half an hour collecting leaves friom the (wet) ground.....all
because his father (who had the nerve to say I was a slow learner...)
never used heshian....one beekeeper out of the four or five I have
asked for help from..... (sorry....I'll get of my soap box now....)
Adrian.
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