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#99594 - 07/13/08 12:27 PM How do I buy or make a wood burning stove.
sixgun Offline
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Registered: 06/05/07
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Loc: N of Detroit
I saw the post earlier about using a woodburning stove and would like to buy or make one, which ones are better and where do I get it or the plans to make one.
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#99595 - 07/13/08 01:43 PM Re: How do I buy or make a wood burning stove. [Re: sixgun]
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Loc: California
http://www.csun.edu/~mjurey/pennywood.html

I've made one but haven't had a chance to test it yet. I've made the same designer's alcohol stove, though, and loved it. This wood stove is, I think, simpler and easier to make (and lighter) than the others out there.
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#99596 - 07/13/08 05:58 PM Re: How do I buy or make a wood burning stove. [Re: dkramalc]
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Do a Google search for "wood burning backpacking stove" or 'stoves' (the results are different if you use "stoves" plural) and you will get lots of sites with either ready-made or home-made stoves.
Zen Stoves has almost 30 different homemade designs on their site.


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#99597 - 07/13/08 06:34 PM Re: How do I buy or make a wood burning stove. [Re: sixgun]
Wolfeye Offline
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Registered: 01/11/07
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Loc: Seattle, WA
Titanium Goat makes one that I hear is pretty light.

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#99598 - 07/13/08 10:08 PM Re: How do I buy or make a wood burning stove. [Re: sixgun]
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I suggest a basic coffee can hobbo stove to establish as a baseline. Then improve from their as you see fit. Personally I don't think fans are neccessary. A drinking straw might help for starting. Haven't tried that. If you just want lots of boiling water, the Kelly Kettle is very hard to beat.

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#99599 - 07/13/08 10:11 PM Re: How do I buy or make a wood burning stove. [Re: sixgun]
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Loc: Alberta, Canada

You havent mentioned what you want the stove for - if this is a backpacking
stove to cook on, as mentioned, search the archives, and the aforementione link
to the penny stove is a good one. (I've built that one, and it does work)

If you're looking for a stove to heat up a tent, well, that's a very different kettle of
fish.
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#99600 - 07/14/08 12:55 PM Re: How do I buy or make a wood burning stove. [Re: sixgun]
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There's also a thread in the backpackinglight.com site under the Make Your Own Gear topic that has a couple of different homebuilt inverted downdraft woodgas stoves. Check that one out?
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#99601 - 07/18/08 08:16 AM Re: How do I buy or make a wood burning stove. [Re: dkramalc]
bulrush Offline
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Registered: 04/19/07
Posts: 132
Loc: Michigan
The "Wings" stove archive has a lot of stove models to build, including wood stoves.
http://wings.interfree.it/html/main.html

This is also a great link organized by stove type.
http://zenstoves.net/LinksGeneral-DIY.htm

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#99602 - 07/19/08 07:15 AM Re: How do I buy or make a wood burning stove. [Re: sixgun]
speyguy Offline
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Registered: 04/11/06
Posts: 35
Loc: Portland, OR
The Bush Buddy stove seems to be considered the Cadillac of the wood burning BP stoves. So far these instructions are some of the better ones I've seen for a replica of the BB.

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#99603 - 07/21/08 09:59 PM Re: How do I buy or make a wood burning stove. [Re: sixgun]
StepChld Offline
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Registered: 10/15/07
Posts: 43
Loc: Garland, Texas
I've made two from this web site, only specialty tool I needed was a Dremel, but you could easily get by with tin snips.
http://site283.webhost4life.com/afmservi...#ProductCompare
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