Post #228976 by freddiefreelance on Thu, Apr 27, 2006 9:44 AM

On 2006-04-27 07:16, cheekytiki wrote:
I'm sure i could burn it out, how does that work?

Basically you start a small charcoal or wood fire to burn away the wood you don't want and scrape away the burnt wood. You move the fire down the log as you burn the wood, then scrape away the burnt wood as it's exposed, then shift again & scrape again, shift & scrape, shift & scrape... When you get to the other end of the log you begin moving the fire back up the log to the areas that've already been scraped. This method was used before the advent of modern metal tools.

Some links on Burning dugouts:

American Indian canoes
The Nez Perce method

Here's some links on making dugouts:

From Mother Earth News
Images of a Papuan dugout being made