Interesting wood stove option

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

I have been researching the stoves myself and I don't understand why they are not bottomless. I would think you could build the fire right on the ground and contain it and the smoke with a floorless stove???

I saw one kind on here once that is bottomless but I looked the other day and couldn't find it again. It was basically a small stainless steel version of an orange caution cone.

 

[cvandervort]

Ah yes. I saw that one too. I emailed the guy who was making them out of his garage, but never heard back...
I thought it was interesting, but then effectively boiling water was out.

Seemed very light and portable though!

 

[wymtnpounder]

I have been researching the stoves myself and I don't understand why they are not bottomless. I would think you could build the fire right on the ground and contain it and the smoke with a floorless stove???

Been wondering the same thing.

 

[Hunt'nFish]

I have been researching the stoves myself and I don't understand why they are not bottomless. I would think you could build the fire right on the ground and contain it and the smoke with a floorless stove???

Because when the wind starts shaking the tent & pipe, the stove shakes too. And w/o a floor it won't draft right and it'll smoke you out.
You want a floor in your stove.

As far as this stove design...... not bad, not the lightest, might suck too much air on the seam and burn wide open hot, but certainly cheap and easy. Might make a good one for a stash stove.
Hunt'nFish

 

[johnnylaw]

gotcha...thanks

 

[squeekieslayer]

I understand a completely floorless design would be risky... but with this design, couldn't it just sit on the ground?

Joe

 

[colonel00]

I don't see why it couldn't just sit on the ground as long as you cleared away any flammable materials. I would actually build a small rock bed for it. Any heat from the stove should transfer and be held in the rocks. Hmm, I wonder how well it could radiate heat if you fully covered all but the door and pipe with rocks. Might take a while to warm the rocks but eventually it should radiate quite well I would think even after the fire was out.

 

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

This past September I would take a large rock or two, that had sat by the campfire, into my tent and it kept my tent warm for 2-3 hrs.

 

[colonel00]

Exactly. While these stoves are not thick enough to retain heat for very long, I think rocks could be used to hold the heat. Plus, take a couple warm rocks and put them in your boots to help dry them out.

 

[ScottP]

Because when the wind starts shaking the tent & pipe, the stove shakes too. And w/o a floor it won't draft right and it'll smoke you out.
You want a floor in your stove.

As far as this stove design...... not bad, not the lightest, might suck too much air on the seam and burn wide open hot, but certainly cheap and easy. Might make a good one for a stash stove.
Hunt'nFish

yeah, if you're not careful you can get the stove and 18" of the pipe glowing red... but I've been able to control it nicely with the damper. Haven't run it in fierce winds yet to see how it behaves. It does tend to 'burp' every now and then and puff a bit of smoke out the door if you don't have everything set just right. I'm hoping to get lots more time testing this spring.

The rock base idea is interesting...

 

[Rizzy]

No legs here, just used rocks

One of the hazzards with a bottomless stove and/or setting the stove on the ground, is starting a ground fire. The debris that is a couple inches under ground can potentially be really dry even when the surface is not.

 

[rbinhood]

Rizzy:

Could you supply some details on the stove shown in the picture? Homemade? Materials? Weight? Dimensions? Collapsible? Pipe Diameter?

 

[flyinsquirel]

That looks like a mailbox stove and some water heater exhaust pipe to me.

 

[rbinhood]

Now that you mention it, I think it is a mailbox. Not sure how long it would last, but I bet he gets at least two seasons out of it. If you got the mailbox for free or cheap, it's not a bad option. Certainly not something you are going to fold flat and pack, but for a somewhat fixed camp, or a stash it is certainly workable.

 

[Bambistew]

We have a fold up stove for our wall tent that sits on the ground, and has no bottom to it. Dimensions are 12hx16wx24d, folds to about 1.5"x16x24, weighs about 8lbs, but we have horses. Works ok, but doesn't hold heat very well, and drafts too well most of the time. The seams at the corners don't seal very well. I think the setup time on a stove with a bottom and legs is a bit faster.

Interesting design, thanks for sharing.

 

[Rizzy]

That looks like a mailbox stove and some water heater exhaust pipe to me.

Bingo

Had to burn it at home a few times to burn all the paint off before camping with it. I made and used this for one hunt in November and left it there for next time. Packed the stove in and an Elk out so to speak. It was fast and cheap to make, but there are better more packable options. It weighed about 3 pounds.

 

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

I have been researching the stoves myself and I don't understand why they are not bottomless. I would think you could build the fire right on the ground and contain it and the smoke with a floorless stove???

Here is a light weight version of a Sibley tent stove the I found on another forum.

 

[GKPrice]

when I was young, inexperienced and broke a friend (at that time) gave me his old and well used outfit - a small wall tent with 30" side walls and an old and very well broken in bottomless sheepherder stove - I used it 5 or 6 hunts and was off to the races but no more bottomless stoves PLEASE ! It was really nice at the time to get the set up for free (wish I'd saved it for posterity)

 

[MontanaMarine]

Grams? Wow.

 

[MontanaMarine]

940 grams = 3.6 lbs, give or take.

I'm probably the only one who needed to go to a converter....lol.