#CAMPFIRE DRAGON POCKET BELLO SERIES#

#CAMPFIRE DRAGON POCKET BELLO SERIES#

That’s the best marketing a company could ever wish for.Ĭheck out Part Two of the video series on our seven-day college backpacking trip along the Western Uplands Trail-as well as students trying out the Pocket Bellow.

Highly focussed and directional, the pocket bellows are extremely handy when trying to get a fire going with wet wood, or for ramping up a camp fire when adding fuel.

The big bonus, however, is that by the end of our seven-day backpacking trip in Algonquin Provincial Park, all the students were fighting over who was allowed to borrow the bellow to get their fire going. EOG V3 Pocket Bellows The EOG V3 pocket bellows is an ingenious, compact, collapsable means of aerating a fire to increase core temperature, and fire output. It also has interior stops to prevent the entire rod from pushing or pulling beyond its limit. None, however, are as effective as the Pocket Bellow.īut is it worth $20? Well, the collapsible rod is made of stainless steel. Fans made from pot lids or Frisbees, funnels made from birchbark, or even lung-power puffed out straight from the mouth and into the smoldering flames. Of course, there are a lot more options to feed oxygen to a flame. I bought it for $20 from the Canadian Outdoor Equipment and I’ve never seen such a simple (and very odd) piece of camp gear that really follows through with its promise. I was an instant hero and this simple piece of camp gear became coveted by every student on the trip. Now, when everything seemed dim, even desperate, I was claiming that some blowing device that looked more like a hollowed-out chalkboard pointer was going to save the day.Ī couple of deep breaths blasted down into the coals through the EOG V3 Pocket Bellow and we had flames, heat and contentment around the campfire circle.

The wood was wet, the students were wet and the temperature dropped to -5 degrees Celsius. My students mocked me, asking how something so small and simple was going to get the campfire going. Credit: Kevin Callan I was teased the moment I pulled the small metal rod out of my pocket.

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