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I am looking at four inexpensive tarps to add a small wood stove to with a ti-goat stove jack. I was going to make something out of parachute cloth but it aint going to happen! Looking for a Kifaru type idea but that I can afford!

Mountain hardware Kiva Light... 66.4 square feet
Golight Hex 3
Black Diamond Meta Mid 81 square feet
Sierra Designs Oragami 4 109 square feet.

Any experience/opinions on any of these?

No experience with those, but I am planning on putting a stove jack in a GoLite Hut 2 ...

http://www.sierratradingpost.com/p/,88591_GoLite-Hut-2-Shelter-Waterproof-2-Person-3-Season-.html

It is nice to see Sierra Designs finally go to a more neutral color on the Oragami for 2008 ... I have been considering one of those as well ... hmmmmmmmmm

North61
Good Idea about the Origami, that's what I'm going to add the port to. I used it for my cook shelter this fall and it worked very well..I'll be using my 4 dogs stove in the origami..
I will also sew some bug net to the bottom of the perimeter..
Good luck with yours...

No experience with a wood stove in one, but I like my Mega-Light as a light, fast to set-up shelter that'll fit two + gear.

Good price on the Go lite Hut but I have a similar size Outdoor Research Night Haven and it's pretty small for a stove IMO.. Let me know how it works out.

Budman... I am leaning towards the Origami 4.... Looks like it might work. How high is it with the 5 sides down?

North61
I'm 6ft 3 and I can walk around just in the center. There's lots of room at the base but it tapers quickly. The base dimensions are about 11x11 ft. Truthfully I don't use the tipi for my sleeping shelter because the bugnet isn't installed yet and mossies just swarm in some of my haunts. The Dome tent is 6ft 1 in the below picture..



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I see the lovely oxidation of titanium on that wood stove pipe! I'll use the Origami for non-bug times as we have a similar problem here in the NWT. Think it will make a great ski shelter!

I have the tigoat cylinder stove in a mega light and it is perect for two guys and plenty of gear. That stove keeps it plenty warm.

budman ... what dome tent is that?

Thinking this would go great in an Orgami or a Hex2

http://www.titaniumgoat.com/cstove.html

hmt
It's the REI Basecamp 6

Yes...But I'll use this as it cost me 2.00 to make.

Ok North how about some details??

http://www.fourdog.com/cat_files/Page304.htm

I use the bannerman stove for several of my shelters

Details eh...Found a 20 liter (4 gallon) fuel drum at the dump and made a door/draft and stove color from parts in the garage. I find these upright round stoves work very well. I am using kni-co 3-2 pipe and it draws well enough. Very compact and with pipe/and elbow and spark arrestor weighs 8.5 pounds. Not bad.

I have since expanded the size of the draft so it now has three times the area here... this cured the backdrafting problem it first had.



Here it is ready to throw on the pulk all but 5" of the pipe nest in the stove as does the spark arrestor. elbow and some of the cooking gear. Because a non-collapsing stove doubles as a container they are not waste space if you have a pulk or toboggan or canoe.



My other good small stove I made from stove pipe and is inspired by the Bannerman design but I extended it to contain the stove pipe when packed and to burn longer wood. I made it for 5-4 pipe and it draws like crazy and so I made an adapter to allow it to also use 3-2 pipe which is handier and burns ok. I wish I could find some 4-3" though as I think the cross section of 3" pipe would be much more useful than 2" pipe. Weighs about 10 pounds and burns 50% less time than the round stove above. Rectangular shape packs really well on a sled, other than that the can upright is a better heater by far.

Darn nice stove there North61..I like the small barrels utility..

here's a few shots of the coleman can stove copied from txtrapper here on this site. i installed one of the tigoat stove jacks in my msr trekker tarp

Outstanding! What size is that pipe and can you give me some detail on your spark arrestor?

The stove pipe on my set up is a 3". The tent side exit allow me to only need a 24" pipe. The spark arrestor on the end of the pipe is a tuna can with lots of 1/4" holes drilled in it.

How does the little fell draft with such a short rise?

Does your tuna can clog up it might not as your exhaust heat would still be pretty high with such a short pipe.