Small wood stove!!

[BIGNASTY]

Thought that some of you might get a kick out of something that guy's on one of my other web-sites have been making.



Have been looking at wood stoves for our hunting/camping in winter, mainly tired of paying 400 bucks for a wood stove to only burn up in a couple of years, at least these are easy to build out of 50cal ammo cans and have seen some made from MUCH! larger ammo cans but would be hard to transport even on animals.



http://matrixgolden.blogspot.com/2011/12/nice-looking-homemade-ammo-box.html

 

[Axtell3]

Looks good. I'd put a screen over the draft. sparks in a tent could be exciting.

as long as you were going on that theme, you could also add ammo can saddle tanks for it so you'd have hot water. still leaving the top for cooking.

 

[TJJEEPER]

Very nice! The video reminded me of my time heating with wood. I heated with wood for almost 10 years and loved it. The reminder was when he closed it down and then opened it... a small poof followed. Those took my eyebrows off more than once :-laf

 

[Wayne M.]

How did he secure the rope gasket to the door? I guess the clean out happens after the cool down?

 

[mwilson]

How did he secure the rope gasket to the door? I guess the clean out happens after the cool down?

They make stove gasket cement. That's how mine is held on.



My big stove does not have a clean out pan or anything. You just let the fire go way down every 5th day or so, clean out the ash and clinkers then wind it back up.



Mike.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Looks good. I'd put a screen over the draft. sparks in a tent could be exciting.

as long as you were going on that theme, you could also add ammo can saddle tanks for it so you'd have hot water. still leaving the top for cooking.

Mr Axtell



I was thinking the same thing and ran across this seems as thou someone thought of it also. I would also put one across the from draft vent to not let sparks pop out on to your sleeping bag.



The only reason that I would use this is for Spike camps with a stove to heat the tent in snow and the top of the stove is big enough for a coffee pot its a food group for me. When in a Spike came cooking aint going to happen unless someone else does it I use MRE's and tuff it out. Actually they are pretty good. Got to think that everything has to pack down to fit in a Pannier on a mule so extra water tanks would be nice but not so much a necessity.

 

[Axtell3]

Nice! When you pack in, you can put food in the cans! The mesh should be the size of the disk, not the holes, so it dosn't tear or move when you adjust the draft. Coffee... MMMMMM