Lil wood cook stove.

[ozarque]

And you can drink the sterno to get warmed twice...

Anyway, I found a smaller Kni-co stove for 106.95

the Packer Jr: http://www.kni-co.com/packerjr.shtml

[bagboater]

It seems the tents that have a stove pipe collar are limited to the hunting type wall tents. These are great for horse camping but are way too heavy and expensive for what I need. There are a couple of teepee or pyramid tents in the Sportsman's Guide catalog in small and large sizes but they are made of Taffeta with a Mylar coating which makes me a little concerned with melting or even catching fire. I wonder where I could get a stove pipe collar too. I have a GI issue folding wood stove about 2 feet by 18 inches square that's made of -heavy- sheet metal and uses a 4" stove pipe intended for tent use. It's way too heavy for back packing but should be fine carried in my beautiful new Super (thanks Gobe). I want to do some winter camping on my Arkansas property and a wood stove in the tent for cooking and heat would make things sooo snug. There's certainly no shortage of wood and I don't need permission to cut any.
73 Gary

Very neat little stove, Gary. I have been looking for years for a cheap folding heating stove for use in a wall tent, but without success. They are all quite expensive. Probably a safety or liability issue prevents marketing of tiny tin heating stoves.
The Kni-Co Sheperder was very close, but is ou of production. They now only advertise the Kni-Co Packer for $120 plus $25 shipping.

http://www.walltentshop.com/Kni-Co.html

I am so frugal, I guess I will have to build my own.

[ozarque]

Gary,
When you are ready for your winter paddle-camp, let me know and I will come down. The smell of fresh Arkansas Eastern Red Cedar burning is a reward in itself.


The wood heating stove would be for use in a home built camper or in the tee pee I am laboriously sewing.

Maybe I could construct a mini stove from an old coleman camp oven?

I would hesitate putting a wood stove in a nylon tent since I it seems so easy to burn a hole in a tent in just normal camping situations with campfires, tiki torches, cigars, pipes, red-hot pokers, fireworks, candles, flaming marshmallows, alladin lamps, kerosene lanterns, and etc.
When you think about it, camping is the perfect pyromania.

[ozarque]

The Kelly Kettle has to be my favorite, enduring 'must have' which I have yet to acquire.

[bagboater]

Yeah those Kelly kettles are great, too bad they're so expensive. When I get a round-tuit I think I'll try to make something like
one. I think I'd better buy the Lindsey book on sheet metal working first though.
73 Gary

The Kelly Kettle has to be my favorite, enduring 'must have' which I have yet to acquire.

[MichaelLomas]

I recommend anyone considering buying a stove go here and take a look at the Bush Buddy:

http://www.bushbuddy.ca/

A guy in northern B.C. makes them out of stainless steel with very slick welding of the seams.

I have had a Bush Buddy for over a year now and find it to be excellent- with 100% combustion of the fuel and easy control of the heat level.
There are loads of twigs (little finger size) just about everywhere to fuel it.

Strange as it may seem, you can have a fire going full blast for hours yet the base does not get too hot to hold - so, for example, you can safely sit the stove on a wooden bench or picnic table.

Sure, pots can get sooty, but prepping with hard laundry soap before use makes them easy to clean at the end of a trip.

It may seem a bit pricey at about $100, but think of the cost of liquid fuel or tablets that you save.

Another bonus: it serves well as a compact campfire - with no log sawing or splitting necessary.

[bagboater]

Looks to be a -very- nice stove. Here's one a little cheaper. I have two of them. At just about $12.00 each I can afford them. 73 Gary

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/search/s ... ket+cooker

[davekru]

AnnR likes her Sierra stove for incinerating twigs, but she has recently fallen under the spell of a folding stove designed and made by a guy in BC. I also have one of these and they really will do the job. Here is a thread on West Coast paddler (Victoria BC origin) detailing their provenance and use:

http://www.westcoastpaddler.com/communi ... ark++stove

Warning: it goes on for 5 or 6 pages!