Is this your fire pit? If so, does the crack bother you?
Also, what’s the the benefit of lighting from above, and do you feel it burns equally quick / evenly?
No, this is a public fire pit along a trail network where I often go trail biking.
The main benefit of this so called “upside down” or “top down” fire is mostly more efficient and longer burn with much less smoke. It takes a bit longer to set up but depending on how you build it you can get a fire going all night this way. In a camping/over night setting the proper way to do this is to start with big wet/green/damp logs on the bottom and then gradually go for smaller and dryer ones as you go up while alternating the orientation of them on each row. If you want it to go on all night you can even fill the gaps between the logs on the lower rows with dirt to prevent embers from falling to the lowers levels before having completely burnt through the previous one. When you then light it from top it’s off the damp ground and has extremely good airflow. Then as it burns down the heat dries the logs below so it doesn’t matter even if they’re wet and theres also barely any smoke at all.
I find that even if you just want a quick fire for cooking you should still put at least one row of logs as a bed below to lift the fire off the ground and improve airflow. You won’t have a fire not start on the first try ever again once it’s done like this.
Is this your fire pit? If so, does the crack bother you? Also, what’s the the benefit of lighting from above, and do you feel it burns equally quick / evenly?
No, this is a public fire pit along a trail network where I often go trail biking.
The main benefit of this so called “upside down” or “top down” fire is mostly more efficient and longer burn with much less smoke. It takes a bit longer to set up but depending on how you build it you can get a fire going all night this way. In a camping/over night setting the proper way to do this is to start with big wet/green/damp logs on the bottom and then gradually go for smaller and dryer ones as you go up while alternating the orientation of them on each row. If you want it to go on all night you can even fill the gaps between the logs on the lower rows with dirt to prevent embers from falling to the lowers levels before having completely burnt through the previous one. When you then light it from top it’s off the damp ground and has extremely good airflow. Then as it burns down the heat dries the logs below so it doesn’t matter even if they’re wet and theres also barely any smoke at all.
I find that even if you just want a quick fire for cooking you should still put at least one row of logs as a bed below to lift the fire off the ground and improve airflow. You won’t have a fire not start on the first try ever again once it’s done like this.