Titanium stove smell

[Jtb.kfd]

jtb.kfd said, "...doesn’t make the tent hotter than a nursing home."

@Jtb.kfd, what's wrong with hotter than a nursing home, huh?? LOL

Well, 30 years ago I could have told you what was wrong with a nursing home temperature tent. But, fast forward to today with the “climate crisis” an all it just makes a lot more sense to keep the tent that hot. My kids have erroneously suggested my change of heart is simply because I am old now but I am sure thats not it.

 

[LFC911]

These come in all different sizes with a sealed lid https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-2...ainer-with-Hinged-Lid-in-Red-246842/311485319

 

[AgentP]

Any stove regardless of material will hold smoke particulates/soot. The chemicals adhered to the metal are just byproducts of combustion. I have a homemade heavy steel stove for my wall tents, an older galvanized stove and a Seek Medium TI stove. All soot up the same regardless of the type of wood burned. I have used them all over the country burning all different types of wood. If you take a large propane torch and burn out the stove pipe and stove after your hunt it helps a lot as it dries that soot/creosote out. But, you have to be really careful with the galvanized and TI stoves as you can warp them so badly they won’t assemble easily anymore. Burning dry wood or being selective on the types of wood you burn isn’t realistic in most hunting situations. I pick the best wood available and sometimes that is garbage sap filled wood. It just doesn’t matter at all unless you are burning for weeks on end and dampering your stove way down. In my wall tents I will toss wetter chunks in before bed and close the dampers way down so it smolders all night and doesn’t make the tent hotter than a nursing home. That works great, but by the end of a 14 day hunt the stove pipe has a ton of creosote. I just burn it out with the propane torch. In the back country I burn whatever is available and torch the setup when I get home if its really bad. Either way the smaller stoves get stored in a sealed tote and the steel stove goes outside in a shed.

Is the smell harmful? I’m just worried about when I have to be in a tent with it this hunting season. I fell like I’ve got the creosote out as well as I can but I just opened the tote today and boy does it still smell like a campfire in there

 

[Jtb.kfd]

Is the smell harmful? I’m just worried about when I have to be in a tent with it this hunting season. I fell like I’ve got the creosote out as well as I can but I just opened the tote today and boy does it still smell like a campfire in there

The smell comes from chemical off gassing of the products of combustion found in the soot. No, those chemicals are not good for you but neither is smog or car exhaust you breathe in walking down a sidewalk. Similar to the smog/exhaust reference, the level of exposure to you from that smell is so low I wouldn’t ever give it a second thought.

 

[Jtb.kfd]

The smell comes from chemical off gassing of the products of combustion found in the soot. No, those chemicals are not good for you but neither is smog or car exhaust you breathe in walking down a sidewalk. Similar to the smog/exhaust reference, the level of exposure to you from that smell is so low I wouldn’t ever give it a second thought.

Is the smell harmful? I’m just worried about when I have to be in a tent with it this hunting season. I fell like I’ve got the creosote out as well as I can but I just opened the tote today and boy does it still smell like a campfire in there

To add a little more, sitting next to a campfire would be more harmful than the off gassing smell you have with your stove. The campfire smoke has the same chemicals but also the particulates you are ingesting. Your body is really good at getting rid of that stuff when is happens in small periodic amounts. Also, the byproducts of combustion when burning natural wood is about as safe as you can get with smoke/creosote.