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Scouting through the woods I found a very old and definitely abandoned deer stand. They are everywhere. I usually like to poke around the old ones to see what might have been left behind. I found this old coffee can with wire woven into the bottom. I've never been a hunter but am assuming that this was a home-made "stove" for keeping warm on a cold fall day. However, I'm far from an expert so I leave it to the internet. 

 

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He out corn in that bucket and made a trail to his stand.? NO it's not mine.

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2 hours ago, Mike89 said:

my guess would be a charcoal burner

I agree with Mike. Back in the 60's & 70's Maxwell House 3# coffee cans had 5 ridges/rings. Note the wire attached to center ring suspending charcoal mid can allowing ash to fall to the bottom. Time rusted the bottom of the can out. The 2 pounder can also worked well to pre heat your old Buick engine after a night on the ice in -20 deg temp.

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They may have been doing a Honey burn for Bears?  Using sticks instead of charcoal? 

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I could easily see that being an old charcoal burner for heat.

 

When we were kids we used to make heaters out of cans by punching some breather holes in about the center of the can and fill it to that line with sand, then soak with fuel oil (our house was heated with fuel oil).  Light it and get a pretty decent slow burn.  When the flame died out we just stirred the sand to expose new oil to be wicked up.  
 

It wasn’t the be all, end all of inventions but we thought they were cool.  

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My old man did some very odd stuff to say the least. He would take coffee cans, wire them up like that, put charcoal on top of the wire and put it under his chair while hunting to stay warm. Zero idea how he shot/shot at so many deer with something like that and while smoking a pack or two of darts every day in the stand

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I remember one old timer that used a coffee can with a roll of toilet paper soaked in alcohol . I have used rags soaked in fuel oil in a coffee can placed under my oil pan to help start the truck.

Happy Days 

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47 minutes ago, tinker said:

I remember one old timer that used a coffee can with a roll of toilet paper soaked in alcohol . I have used rags soaked in fuel oil in a coffee can placed under my oil pan to help start the truck.

Happy Days 

Still effective way to get low flame heat. You also get a nice hospital smell. Distil some moonshine and your oder free. 

 

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