Lighting

Oh and try diesel fuel. it's cheaper than torch fuel still and burns pretty clean (although you do need to wear gloves and probably a rubber apron to keep the fuel out of your clothes and skin).

Only issue with the landscape timbers is the rocky ground. Not sure how easy it would be to dig a 2 1/2 - 3 foot hole. If you could, they work better than anything else we tried. Nobody will be knocking them over at all.

So for about $6 or $7, you have permanence that can be there as long as you want. Between events simply pull the canisters and store them. The landscape timbers can serve, where appropriate, double duty as sign posts.

If you use diesel fuel, it makes a somewhat larger flame thus more light. Gallon for gallon, the Citronella will cost probably 1.5 to 2 times more and haven't seen a huge benefit as far as keeping the miniature vampires away.

let me second what balindor and kunkel have posted. we use the red off road diesel and works very well citronella is expensive and not reall successful for mosquitoes .
yes the torches ae a maintenance issue to keep filled also need to be dried out after rains eventually the rain water gets into the torch via the wick and displaces the void for fiesel fuel plus the wicks get polluted by the water and need to be pulled and dried out or replaced
and definitely use vinyl or other non latex gloves for filling

Filling the torches is a tedious and non glamorous task and is messy. Please use some type of rubber Nitrile, or vinyl gloves. old clothes or apron.We use a flat tub quite like a Bus tub to carry and store the canisters.

The best way to fill them is to use some type of container that can be laid on it's side equipped with a small valve that has nozzle that will fit into the torch opening. We have tried funnels and the squeeze type K-! pumps and several other methods But overfilling is quite probable and this wastes fuel plus makes a mess

Having said all this Tiki Torches are still the best way for remote lighting We also tried solar lights with little success

I'm just looking through this and have to ask a question. How...pungent do the torches get on diesel fuel? I don't know how well it burns in tiki torches, but I know smelling diesel all over camp and inhaling fumes or the byproducts of burned diesel all weekend is not going to be fun for many of us, myself included.

Annora wrote: I'm just looking through this and have to ask a question. How...pungent do the torches get on diesel fuel? I don't know how well it burns in tiki torches, but I know smelling diesel all over camp and inhaling fumes or the byproducts of burned diesel all weekend is not going to be fun for many of us, myself included.

If the smell gets too out of havd, blame the londwyns.
Also, there are also multi-colored tiki torch fuel things that you can get for mods and whatnot.