Thread: Hot tenting wood stove

Im keen on getting out Hot Tenting somewhere next winter in the central South Island.
Somewhere that has a good supply of firewood.
Trout fishing
Hares to feed the dog
and the odd deer and pig to look at and occasionally shoot.

Why Hot Tenting ? Away somewhere remote for a reasonable amount of time when most people stay away and able to keep gear dry!

So I have put together a prototype ultralight tent wood stove. Just out of some 0.6mm stainless steel sheet that was handy in the workshop.
Liked the idea of a triangle with a perforated air supply tube in the V of the triangle.
It ended up having a 300x220mm top surface because thats what I had and a 50mm alloy chimney.



Its just propped up between a couple of bricks for the test.
This one worked pretty well but next version will be 350x250mm top and deeper sides so that the V is a little steeper and all embers fall into the bottom more easily.
But next version will have legs to get it up to a reasonable height to feed and use. Should also get good heat into tent.



Door was pretty basic for this one and I had no control on the draft to the air vent pipe in base of V. But played around with blocking the hole and also shutting off the chimney partly and there was reasonable control over the heat and rate of burn.
Will hinge next ones door forward just above the air tube control and it will help to stop embers falling out the front.
A couple of liters or water boiled pretty quickly.



Will look at using a silicon baking sheet to make a stove jack for through the side of a tent as a small cheap alternative to importing one.
Stainless steel thin wall tube chimney in sections short enough to fit inside body of stove for the next one also.

Looked at some of the wood stoves used in Alaska and Canada but even the small ones are probably too big and heavy for my intended application. They would be just too hot for a tent here even mid winter in the South Island high country

Any sheet metal workers in Canterbury on the forum who are interested in the concept and willing to advise or help with the next one?
I have every tool invented for wood but not set up for sheet metal !