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http://www.solostove.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=facebook_ad

Facebook told me to take a look at this... :-)

Looks very nice and something that would be a real benefit in early season here in BC and in the "Eastern Slopes", eh.

Looks like a woods gasifier, of which several are floating around, including DYI plans.

In mild weather they work great, but when the temps drop and wind kicks up, the outside jacket doesn't get hot enough to allow it to gasify properly.

So care must be taken to keep then sheltered and burning hot.

Pretty cool stove. I wonder how badly it would soot up your pots?

They do soot up your pots like a normal camp fire, but Super Clean and a Scotch-Brite pad clean them right up.

Two different variations of a wood gasifier, bottom burn and top burn.

The Solo stove looks exactly like the Bushbuddy which both are bottom burners. In other words they burn the fuel from the bottom up.

The Bushwacker burns from the top down and fuel lasts a fair bit longer. With normal wood, twigs and braches etc, I got an average of about 17 minutes burn time off one load. Using pellets I got 45 minutes burn time off one load. That means I fill it once, light it and go, no adding anymore fuel until it goes out.

The one above and the Bushbuddy need to be refueled almost constantly.

It is nice not having to carry fuel for them and you can keep buring them as a warming fire after if you want.

As I stated earlier though and I cannot stress this enough, they must be protected from wind and especially cold wind, as in freezing and lower or they just simply wont burn hot enough.

The Bushbuddy Ultra runs about 120 dollars, the Bushwacker about 35.

Not quite the same idea, but a good stove none the less...

http://www.emberlit.com/

I've got the Ti version and it's worked well for me so far.

Two more options similar to the Emberlit are the Vargo and Ti-Tri Caldera cone.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks that is the most awesome stove!!!!

That's pretty slick. I like that it packs down flat. Only 5.45 oz in Titanium!

That is the most awesome little flat packing twig stove that I know of

IMO, the big plus of this over other wood burners is the flat packing. The Ti at 5.5 oz and packed flat could find space in a backpack. I'm not keen on sooting up my Ti pots but it would make a great backup to a cylinder or white gas stove or just great for a daypack.
I'm itching to try this thing, thinking I may NEED it! Lol, just received the Kuiu Attack pants today and now NEEDING a new stove. This site is costing me a bloody fortune!



But great fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzPhPrmfTNE&feature=related

The Vargo in action.

I will probably get an Emberlit to try it out and compare it to my other stoves.

Hmmm.... try putting that thing together when you stumble into camp with half-frozen fingers at minus 15C or so, looks like it might be challenging?

LOL...I haven't had the pleasure of trying it in that type of situation yet, but I can tell you that it's VERY easy to put together. I'm not concerned at all about it giving me trouble when its cold.

I imagine a white gas stove could be a problem to assemble, pump, prime and light under those conditions too! In those conditions, I'd be more concerned with getting a fire going to warm up rather than starting a stove.

I look at it as a backup to a gas stove or alternative cooking system, not a lifesaving device. Even here in the mountains of NC, only rarely does it get down into single digits. But if i HAD to get a stove going(?) under the conditions you describe I probably wouldn't wait until I was stumbling and my hands half frozen.

As far as wood cook stoves go, this one is pretty compact as far as backpack space goes.

Don't forget the Emberlit "Mini" - @only 4.1 oz!

I'd be interested if he actually went the other way and made one a tick bigger with a larger loading door so I could cram more wood in it. These things are so light and small, I'd not be bothered if they were roughly a third bigger....say 9-10 oz's...