ohiogoatgirl
Lovin' The Homestead
okay so i sent in an email to be on the TV show "the colony". now i know it is unlikely that i will get on the show. but lately i've been modivated (spelling?) to really learn stuff. i mean i'm always reading and looking stuff up but i've been actually trying this stuff.
so i made a lamp. i used a shell from the creek, a dried mullien leaf (commonly known here as toilet paper plant), and vegetable oil.
~pour some oil in the shell,
~cut a strip of mullien leaf for your wick,
~let the leaf soak up some oil,
~lay the leaf-wick along the shell (one end in the oil leaning up the side of the shell with a little hanging off the edge)
~light the leaf-wick (the part hanging off the edge)
my shells dont even hold 1/4 cup of oil and it burned for about 4.5 hours. the leaf-wick was about 1/2 inch long and about half as wide as a pencil eraser. but you have to keep putting a little oil in it or the wick will burn down real fast.
i'm going to make an atlatl soon.
anyone else make any primitive stuff like this?
so i made a lamp. i used a shell from the creek, a dried mullien leaf (commonly known here as toilet paper plant), and vegetable oil.
~pour some oil in the shell,
~cut a strip of mullien leaf for your wick,
~let the leaf soak up some oil,
~lay the leaf-wick along the shell (one end in the oil leaning up the side of the shell with a little hanging off the edge)
~light the leaf-wick (the part hanging off the edge)
my shells dont even hold 1/4 cup of oil and it burned for about 4.5 hours. the leaf-wick was about 1/2 inch long and about half as wide as a pencil eraser. but you have to keep putting a little oil in it or the wick will burn down real fast.
i'm going to make an atlatl soon.
anyone else make any primitive stuff like this?