Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Tent stoves suggestion for a 14x16 tent

If you won't be packing the stove far or often, go with a heavy stove. The cylinder holds heat nicely for a relatively packable stove. I can pack my outfitter (with all parts) and my spike tent (with all parts) on one horse. Minus 20 or 30 degree nights with a thin walled stove require lots of waking to feed the stove and still waking cold in the morning. Been there too many nights. Also, consider going oe size up from the stove you figure you can "get by" with - it'll hold more wood and you won't regret it.

I use a propane heater in my wall tent, it works great, and i don't have to cut wood.

Kevin

Do you burn the propane all night while you sleep? Isn't that dangerous?

Yes i do run it all night, and have for years now, with the 2 holes at the peak of a wall tent and the air that comes in around the bottom, you get plenty of ventilation. the first couple of years, i kept a carbon monoxide tester in the tent just to be sure.

Kevin

We hunt in the Adirondacks out of a 10'x12' canvas wall tent and we use a 30 gal barrel stove. I'm not sure what brand our door is but we've had it forever, has a main square door and a smaller one with two dampers on it.

It won't burn the whole night but we are usually in bed by 20:00 and usually will make it until after midnight before we have to add wood. We just check it when someone gets up to take a leak anyway.

Before we start burning in it for the season we always put a few inches of crick sand in the bottom to keep from burning the bottom out.

http://www.walltentshop.com/idstove.htm
I've used the Idaho stove for years.
They are hell for stout and indestructable.

Lots of good information and options now I will share this with my partners and see how much cash they will part with

Cylinder Stove:

I am trying to make a tent stove out of a 30 gallon barrel. I bought the US Stove Barrel kit. I put the door on, put the feet on. The top vent was a little tricky as a 30 gallon barrel has a ridge on the outside edge of the vent area is supposed to go. I had to take some pliers to flatten that area. Otherwise seems to go together alright. I bought some fireplace caulk to ensure that I had a good seal. I also made some brackets to lengthen the feet to get it up off the ground. The problem I am running into now is that I bought a nesting stove pipe. The nesting stove pipe starts at about 4 3/4 inches od. The vent is 6 inches. I need to find a way to reduce from the vent hole which has a damper to my first piece of pipe that starts 4 3/4. Any idea's? I also bought a cast iron stove grate from a hardware store and cut it down to fit inside.

Why not just use regular 6 inch pipe? You have more than enuff room in the firebox to store it. I don't have much use for the tapered pipe, anyway. Fiberglass gasket material around the flange, works better than stove cement, too. Might also want to consider a flat cooking surface on top. It can be made outta expanded metal and screwed on with sheet metal screws.

Don,

You'd be a handy guy to have around, because the stuff you build is top-notch!