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olypen, great observation. The wood fuels I have here to work with are mediocre at best. I like the idea of having ample air-intake, with the ability to slow-down, and the air gaps around the spark screens at the bottom of the stove pipe to also oxygenate the gasses going up the flue. Much of the heat can be generated from the stove pipe itself. Tim.

Thanks Thumper. I stumbled into that website last year and liked the lineup of traditional gear, but forgot about the tent. Very cool IMO.

I think you'll really appreciate having a stove. Warmth and cooking w/o worrying about wind direction.

I don't have to worry about dry fuel. With all the beetle kill in CO, especially where I hunt in Grand County, there's standing dead everywhere and pitch balls on every tree for fire starting. What I have to worry about is not setting the whole place ablaze.

The beetle kill has really started to change the animal behavior in the area too as more feed is available in what used to be thick timber.

So... I finally got to test burn with the baffle/damper in place. I'm very pleased with how the stove performed. In a future version I think the secondary air above the door should be adjustable, but for my first season hunt this will do nicely.

I got 1L of water to a rolling boil in about 14 minutes. It may have been sooner, but I was distracted for a bit and didn't check any earlier.

The heat profile in the pictures shows a MUCH hotter hot spot right under the pot where I wanted it. And the secondary air above the stove does seem to provide a secondary burn right under the pot.

The front/back selection with the dampers to control the flue gasses also worked out nice as I can adjust the heat to the pot or send the flue gasses to the back when loading the stove. With both of the dampers nearly closed it does a nice job of reducing the draft. The dampers in combination with the inlet air control provided well over two hours burn/heat from the last load of wood which was 3-4 min into the boil test. The stove ran full tilt for 20 min or so while it boiled water and I played with it before I damped it down. About 90 minutes after the last load of wood I opened it up so that I could burn it down and get to bed... at the 2.5 hour mark It's still got hot coals in the bottom that I stirred up.

--thumper338


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Thumper...just wondering how the stove worked out for you last year. I'm getting ready to build one myself and I really like your design. What's your total weight on that? Is the baffle stationary? Any thing that you would recommend doing different? I hunted 18 last year and was a bit disappointed. Might be venturing elsewhere this year.

Ok, I don't know a lot about metals, but what about a 3x3 piece of copper(fairly thin) right on the top of the stove where you would cook? I think copper is a super conductor of heat and would speed up boil times? Could I do that instead of a baffle? I was thinking of cutting the foil body, replacing with a small copper piece and welding or riveting. I don't know...what do you guys think?