jhm2023
WKR
My wife and I have always hunted together since we started dating. So naturally when our daughter was born we were not going to stop hunting together. We did however need to start thinking of ways to make camping and hunting trips more feasible with a newborn. That prompted us to purchase an Arctic Oven Igloo. We have always run propane heat, either a buddy heater or a Nuway stove. They have their uses but we wanted something more sustainable on longer trips as well as really cold temps. I started searching the interwebs and reading tons of reviews on various stoves and decided on the Gstove heat and view. It is somewhat similar in price point as the Kni Co. stoves I have used and are sold locally, but the Kni Co. stoves left some to be desired. The Gstoves are made in Norway and I placed my order through gstove-usa.com which is actually out of Canada.
Initial thoughts on the Gstove are impressive. It was very well packaged and every piece seemed perfectly crafted and had very clean welds. I opted to add the spark arrestor since we will be burning a fair amount of spruce, as well as the airflow controller to add efficiency. I also ordered a spare glass insert for the door just in case.
The first burn was without the tent to burn off an residue left by manufacturing and shipping so it didn't stink up the tent. It performed great, is very easy to get going and easy to dial in just where you want it between the damper on the door and the airflow controller. The cooling racks stay cool allowing to dry gloves and warm up cold wood.
A few days later we setup the tent with a temp of 0°F and got the stove going with some small splits off bettle killed spruce cut to 14 inches. I placed as much wood as I could fit on top of the grate through the adequately sized door opening and shoved a few crumpled pieces of newspaper under the grate. Simply lighting the paper and closing the door with both door and pipe dampers open was all it took to get the stove going. In a matter of minutes I had to start working the dampers to dial it back. In roughly 10 minutes I closed both dampers about 90%, started a timer and placed a thermometer at waist height. I realistically expected about an hour and a half of burn time, but I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the stove still half full of hot coals at the 1.5 hour mark. At 2 hours the coals needed to be stirred and it was 52° at waist level. At 2.5 hours it was still 48° and about 85-90% of the coals were now gone. I stirred the remaining coals and opened the dampers to halfway which lasted about 20 more minutes before needing to be loaded with more wood. I expect even better performance from Birch but I had already burned through my stock of dry Birch in the house woodstove.
It's worth noting the Arctic Oven is an impressively efficient tent to keep warm and through this brief test I kept the vestibule open with 10-15mph winds.
The whole family is impressed with the stove to include the dogs (especially the shorthair) and I expect a lifetime of use from it. We will be putting it through more testing later this month when we snowmachine into the mountains in search of some early spring grizz.
I hope someone in search of a tent and/or stove finds this helpful.
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Initial thoughts on the Gstove are impressive. It was very well packaged and every piece seemed perfectly crafted and had very clean welds. I opted to add the spark arrestor since we will be burning a fair amount of spruce, as well as the airflow controller to add efficiency. I also ordered a spare glass insert for the door just in case.
The first burn was without the tent to burn off an residue left by manufacturing and shipping so it didn't stink up the tent. It performed great, is very easy to get going and easy to dial in just where you want it between the damper on the door and the airflow controller. The cooling racks stay cool allowing to dry gloves and warm up cold wood.
A few days later we setup the tent with a temp of 0°F and got the stove going with some small splits off bettle killed spruce cut to 14 inches. I placed as much wood as I could fit on top of the grate through the adequately sized door opening and shoved a few crumpled pieces of newspaper under the grate. Simply lighting the paper and closing the door with both door and pipe dampers open was all it took to get the stove going. In a matter of minutes I had to start working the dampers to dial it back. In roughly 10 minutes I closed both dampers about 90%, started a timer and placed a thermometer at waist height. I realistically expected about an hour and a half of burn time, but I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the stove still half full of hot coals at the 1.5 hour mark. At 2 hours the coals needed to be stirred and it was 52° at waist level. At 2.5 hours it was still 48° and about 85-90% of the coals were now gone. I stirred the remaining coals and opened the dampers to halfway which lasted about 20 more minutes before needing to be loaded with more wood. I expect even better performance from Birch but I had already burned through my stock of dry Birch in the house woodstove.
It's worth noting the Arctic Oven is an impressively efficient tent to keep warm and through this brief test I kept the vestibule open with 10-15mph winds.
The whole family is impressed with the stove to include the dogs (especially the shorthair) and I expect a lifetime of use from it. We will be putting it through more testing later this month when we snowmachine into the mountains in search of some early spring grizz.
I hope someone in search of a tent and/or stove finds this helpful.
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