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This is completely off the wood stove subject, but I thought I would throw it out. Several years ago due to my health and physical limitations, we quit doing pack ins. The we started to camp at the truck in a bigger wall tent with a wood stove. No problems, but again cutting all that firewood for a ten day hunt was hard for us old farts to do.

I bought a 30K BTU Blue Flame heater from Northern Tool and heated with that. Guaranteed someone will come on here and say burning propane will cause a lot of humidity in the tent. Here in Colorado where it is relatively dry, I did not notice that, but it probably would in wetter climates. This worked out great. No more wood cutting, no chimney cleaning. Turn it down to low at night and stay comfy. Reach over in the morning and turn it up. Ten minutes and the tent is 65 degrees or more if wanted.

Later,I had a newer 20 ft gooseneck stock trailer ,that I kept the front stall clean with no animals. When we got to out hunt area I set up the trailer as my living quarters and al kitchen for the entire camp.

A 20 ft all steel trailer gets pretty cold, but that heater served us well. Usually we had to turn it off when cooking. Typically I used two 20 lb bottles of propane per season.

here is the heater on the right side, in the trailer.

Kind of messy,but it shows the heater.



This might not work for the OP, but it is a different option if one is not packing in.

Age has again caught up and passed me,so I sold all that and now have a slide in pop up camper and bumper pull traile.r