The pavement won.

So far he only lost one tooth but I'll have to wait for the swelling to go down to check everything else out.

Man Zone Arts and Crafts 2.0

Some of you may remember my little foray into the construction and use of a backpacking stove constructed out of Heineken cans and powered by alcohol.
 http://zirkerfam.blogspot.com/2008/02/man-zone-arts-and-crafts.html

Well, never content to rest on my laurels, I did some more research into alcohol powered stoves and found this nifty little design which was just about the easiest thing I've ever made in my life. http://jwbasecamp.com/Articles/SuperCat/index.html

I spent $0.38 on a can of "Potted Meat Product" at Wal-Mart (which Kya loved) and another $2.19 on a hole punch at Office Depot.  That was it.  Using this as my template:
http://www.supercatstove.com/docs/SuperCat_HolePunchTemplates.pdf
I checked the spacing of the holes and punched them out.  Three minutes later I had this:

 
It can run off of any type of alcohol: Rubbing, methanol, denatured alcohol, everlcear (some people use rum). I used a $0.99 bottle of yellow "Heet" as my fuel (pure methanol).  On my maiden run I had two cups of water boiling in about five minutes.