Looking for some feedback on these two stoves. Durability, ability to hold heat, draw backs, etc. Water heater worth the extra $$$, or just bring a large pot to sit on top?

It will be used to heat a 12 x 20 tent.

Thanks folks.

Don't know anything about the Kwik Kamp?

But the 4-Dogs should do real well in a 12 X 20' !

Waters heaters are real nice. You have a couple more options with a heater.
Like keeping the attached heater potable water, and use an extra pot(s) for non-potable wash water.

Some set-ups sort of limit how the stove needs to line up. The attached heater makes a sort of cooler shaded side of the stove. Not that noticeable most of the time, but will let you know when the bottom falls out of the thermometer!

Can't help you with the Kwik Kamp, but two of my buddies have been using a Four Dogs stove for several years, in two separate tents. They both have the Three Dogs Model and one uses it in his 12'x14'x5 A wall and the other uses his in his 14'x16'x5' A wall. They've been more than sufficient in 0� F. weather, a couple of times in heavy snow.

Neither has had any problems and both praise the Four Dogs stoves.

L.W.

The Kwik-Kamps is bigger and thus will burn longer.

Just ordered and received a Kwik-Kamp for my new Davis 14x16. The stove is heavy, but very well built. I didn't order water tank, just the pipe. Showed up in about a week. Won't get a chance to try it out until mid October. But it is definitley a very nice stove...

Wouldn't hurt to burn the h311 out of it before you went up hunting.

The coatings on the stove will give off some fumes, and the galvanizing on the pipes might be toxic to some?

Don't take much, a arm-load or two of sticks and fire the stove full air and open damper. The lower pipes will frost up (for a lack of better discription of how they will appear) those are the pipes you want to assemble in camp same order as they attach to the stove.

Yes sir. I'll have to get a burn on it before we throw it in a tent. It came with instructions for that specifically. But I agree that it's important to do in a well ventilated are.

I burned my stove when new and after repainting by packing it full of hard wood and letting it burn wide open till it stops stinking and the galvinized chimney pipe is completly greyed.

I much prefer the Four Dog stove. The baffle inside does a great job concentrating the heat for cooking and keeps a lot of sparks out of the pipe.

I would think having the outlwt in the back like the Kwik-Kamp does wpuld accomplish the same thing. IE forcing the flame to travel along the top of the stove before exiting.
The Kwik-Kamp strikes me as the highest quality stove on the market as far as construction/ design goes.

We have to keep our water tank full or the lid tends to warp when it gets hot. You go through a lot more water but it sure is handy always having hot water.

Thanks for the information folks.

I was leaning very heavily towards the Four Dog stove before I checked out the Kwik Kamp.

Based on what I am reading though, I don't think I can go wrong with either.

Thanks,

Washburn

I have a 4 dog TI in my 12 man Kifaru (17x20) works great for me. The water tank would be nice if I wasn't flying in.

We have 2 Kwik Kamp stoves in our camp. They hold heat way better than our old sheep herder stoves.

Quick follow up. I bought the Four Dog stove. It arrived as promised with all the needed hardware. Craftsmanship looks to be very good. The initial burn went very well.