How fast can a gimp...build a backpacking wood stove?

misanthropist said:
No, this is entirely a one-off eyeball-it-til-it's-right think-this-might-work goof around session.
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Nice! My eyeball work like that usually means buying at least two of everything (or more) until I get it right. LOL. Hey, I'm just a drummer...:D
 
"How do you tell if your stage is slanted? Your drummer is only drooling out of one side of his mouth."

I didn't have to buy extra anything but I did have to make repeated trips to my big bolt tray to do things a few different ways before I was happy.
 
Looks very cool :)

I've been meaning to make something like this myself. Anyone know of a good place to go to learn about making stoves. I take it the longer the pipe is, the stronger the effect?
 
No, it's about the 'draw' of the stove CanDo. There is a length of stove pipe where any more length is a moot point, haivng negligible effect. Usually the shortest out of the living space that clears the roof peak is best for a smooth draw. from a life of ,cough, woodstove, cough, use, cough...
 
Gopher it, Misanthy! :D I like your stove idea. I have a soft spot in my heart (maybe it's in my head) for tin benders, having spent a lot of years earning my living at that craft myself. I never made much money at it, but at the end of the day when I could see what I had made before I went home it felt kind of good. I've still got most of my sheet metal tools, too. I hope you're ankle's not hurting too much. Your attitude seems healthy. Hang in there. :thumbup:
 
Hey, "Survival Guitarist" :D, How did you seal between the body and the exhaust
(chimney) pipe?
- Thanks
P.S. Nice boots.:thumbup:
 
Great sheetmetal work, and very interesting stove design. Kind of a back packing furnace. I bet it would keep a small tent really cozy, but how to isulate the tent material?.....got my wheels turning.
 
misanthropist said:
The assisstant, without whom all of this would have been REALLY hard! Quote from her regarding the fire and sparks shooting out "it's like fireworks."

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Why D'ya need a stove to get warm ?:D:thumbup:
 
I like that a lot. I've been wanting to make a canvas basha/yurt/tipi type thing for ages. As it's totally not practical to hump such old fashioned materials around the project has been shelved over and over. Then I take my playmate out again, and see the joy she has sitting on a stump with a pile of sticks and a ball of good old rough string making who knows what next. Last time I took her she had a ball poking at things in an oven I'd cobbled from an old ammo box, but that was by necessity outside the nest. Again, I was resolved to build something inside, perhaps with a small lazyman boiler rigged on the top plate for on-demand hot water. But best of all, I want a nest with a chimney sending up little zephyrs of welcoming woodsmoke.

Inspiring amigo.

K+
 
This thread has got me thinking and searching the net for ideas.
I found this: http://www.webfun.org/woodstove.html
and also a mention of turning the mailbox upside down to have a cooking surface.
I bet misanthropist's would last a lot longer.
And the ammo box oven that taco mentioned sounds promising too.
 
The Last Confederate said:
Don't listen to him, that skirt is just fine! :D :D :D
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No skirt at all would be even better but then the picture will probably be not appropiate for this subforum :D :D You got lucky finding a gf that drives you arround hardware stores and stuff like that...

Nice job. I think you could make the pot supporting screws even shorter so you get the pot closer to the stove. That thing sure leaks BTU's everywhere just try to collect as many as possible for cooking!

Mikel
 
I've been working on various stove ideas since you started this thread.

I like the idea of an upside down mailbox! Add some legs to the round side and you're good to go. You could also port the chimney out the top, rather than the back. (I've heard straight runs of pipe are safer.)

-- FLIX

Edited to add this link to an elbow stove. Note the fuel shelf. They say it significantly increases performance.

-- FLIX
 
blazink said:
Great sheetmetal work, and very interesting stove design. Kind of a back packing furnace. I bet it would keep a small tent really cozy, but how to isulate the tent material?.....got my wheels turning.
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Well, I just sleep under tarps anyway, so I would just have this sticking out an open end of the thing. Although I think today and tomorrow I may start on another project: making a tarp shaped to hug the ground...sort of a tarp bivvy. Then I would have less opening...

A stove jack I was thinking could be made from the same shim stock as the chimney...a foot square with a hole in it sewn into the "beak" of a tarp-tent might work, I will give it a shot.


How did I seal the stove-chimney joint? I didn't - but the draft up the pipe seems to create a vaccuum here anyway.


And depsite the appearance, I can't really shorten the cooking surface bolts much - I only have about 2-3mm of clearance between the stove and any pot or pan I set on it.

That's okay - it's for heating in deep winter first, cooking second. But I predict it will work pretty well anyway.

Anyway I screwed up my whole season by breaking the ankle but NEXT winter I will have a ton of new DIY gear to allow me to get further into the bush in worse conditions for my next injury!
 
Looks pretty awesome.. Reminds me of a jet stove, when you mentioned the sparks coming out of the chimney... Have you tried maybe the firebox on the vertical rather than the horizontal ?? Saw something in an old backswoodsman mag that's similar..
 
good vid! Sure a similar design...I guess it's pretty obvious if you've ever had wood stoves...they work a certain way and you just slap one together!

You know if you read through that thread on ZS, somewhere around 3/4 of the way through...you will see a very familiar post!

That was a great thread, for sure.

I've never tried a stove with a more vertical shape, so it might work as well or better...but you sure don't see a lot of vertical wood stoves around. I guess the old potbellies are sort of a vertical design, but I've never had or used one so I don't know anything about them!

One thing that would hold me back about the vertical setup is that I think it would be a lot tippier!
 
LOL! I just got that deep into the thread. Here I thought I found some new info for you.

-- FLIX
 
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