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So I've been using the clikstand ( http://www.clikstand.com ) for quite a while now. It consists of a click together stainless steel stove / pot stand, combined with a brass alcohol burner from Trangia. Normally, you'd fill the burner with denatured alcohol and use the thing as a standard alky stove with a nice windscreen.
However, I started wondering whether I could use the base / stand as a wood stove, without the alcohol burner, if I were to run out of fuel, so I tested it out today.
It works!
It has rained for the last two days here, so it was perfect stove testing conditions... I used a couple of new knives to split and shave off some kindling and little bits of wood from the center of larger sticks, and even harvested a little bit of drenched fatwood. I forgot to check my watch until a bit after taking everything apart, but boil time was less than ten minutes after the fire was already going and I added the pot. Not bad, not bad at all.
I decided to use the base plate, but not actually clicked into the stove - just set on the ground below it. I don't know that it helped very much, but it at least gave SOME sort of dry surface to cut down on the moisture in the stove a bit.
My whole stove setup fits inside the stuff sack for the evernew titanium 0.9L pot.
Everything packs very flat inside. Here you see the Trangia alcohol burner, which I usually would use - I'm planning on the wood fire as nothing but a backup to the burner in case I run out of fuel. The side walls of the clikstand are assembled. I will be using them without the base plate clicked in place
My new Bama Clay Active Duty was good for making some fatwood shavings
Tried to light the fatwood with a UST Sparkie, but it was fresh harvested from a soaking wet stump and I had to use a cotton ball soaked in candle wax
You didn't think I'd keep that Smooth Bolt SJTAC a safe queen did you? It was used to split up some of that fatwood, but it turned out to not be very saturated with resin, so not the best stuff.
finally, some fire!
Seems pretty good to me - I'd call this test a big success!
However, I started wondering whether I could use the base / stand as a wood stove, without the alcohol burner, if I were to run out of fuel, so I tested it out today.
It works!
It has rained for the last two days here, so it was perfect stove testing conditions... I used a couple of new knives to split and shave off some kindling and little bits of wood from the center of larger sticks, and even harvested a little bit of drenched fatwood. I forgot to check my watch until a bit after taking everything apart, but boil time was less than ten minutes after the fire was already going and I added the pot. Not bad, not bad at all.
I decided to use the base plate, but not actually clicked into the stove - just set on the ground below it. I don't know that it helped very much, but it at least gave SOME sort of dry surface to cut down on the moisture in the stove a bit.
My whole stove setup fits inside the stuff sack for the evernew titanium 0.9L pot.
Everything packs very flat inside. Here you see the Trangia alcohol burner, which I usually would use - I'm planning on the wood fire as nothing but a backup to the burner in case I run out of fuel. The side walls of the clikstand are assembled. I will be using them without the base plate clicked in place
My new Bama Clay Active Duty was good for making some fatwood shavings
Tried to light the fatwood with a UST Sparkie, but it was fresh harvested from a soaking wet stump and I had to use a cotton ball soaked in candle wax
You didn't think I'd keep that Smooth Bolt SJTAC a safe queen did you? It was used to split up some of that fatwood, but it turned out to not be very saturated with resin, so not the best stuff.
finally, some fire!
Seems pretty good to me - I'd call this test a big success!
