Tent Stove/Heater

[Izzybean]

I haven't posted in forever and I wasn't sure where to post this. Anyway, I am looking for ideas on a stove for our teepee. Last year we used a kerosene heater, yes the heater works fine just not so great in a teepee cause all the heat went straight up & out. It did not work as well as we had hoped within the teepee. I want some kind of wood burning stove. If anyone has any ideas of what we should get please share!! I have tried looking on ksl but with no luck. It could be that I am not entering the correct words for my search.

[North_Star]

Have you checked these cylinder stoves?

http://www.cylinderstoves.com/stoves-c-21.html?osCsid=h6223vda3sisj46prpgst6jsb2

We like the warming tray and hot water heater that can be attached. Seem pretty good for camping.
My wife really wanted the oven so we added it to our Yukon stove:

http://www.cylinderstoves.com/ovens-c-24.html

There are many kinds of tent stove out there.... You might want to check with Cabella's too.

[thermocouple]

We've used two different stoves in our tipi. The Cylinder Stoves Outfitter was really well made and radiated heat great, but I thought it was a pain to keep stoked right. Now we use an M-1941 Army stove, cost way less, probably wont last half as long, doesnt radiate quite as much heat as the Outfitter, but it's way easier to get a fire going in and way easier to keep stoked up.

This is the cheapest place I found M-1941 stoves (its where I bought mine):
http://tinyurl.com/yc5gocl

[Izzybean]

This is the site that keeps coming up:

http://www.gr8gear.com/catalog/Camping-Outdoor-Gear/Stoves-Fuel-Bottles/Tent-Stove-US-Genuine-Issue-M-1941/

Is this correct? Was there anything else you needed to get for that stove?

[Babbi-Dan]

Take a look at this site.

https://www.strinztipi.com/estore/

Click on stove and iron goods on the left hand side.

We have one of the tent heaters with the spark arrestor. We have a pyramid tent though, not a tipi. Everything comes apart and fits inside for easy traveling.

We fill it with coals from our outside fire before bed.

[mirkwood]

Go to Cabelas.com and look at the sheepherder stoves.

[Izzybean]

Thanks for everyones help! We are getting the M-1941 stove. This is the same one my dad has had for almost 30 years and it still works great. In fact, it is the one we have been looking for. We ordered it and it will be here on Thursday! Just in time for our camping trip next week. I will let you know how it works out!

[thermocouple]

Take a look at this site.

https://www.strinztipi.com/estore/

Click on stove and iron goods on the left hand side.

We have one of the tent heaters with the spark arrestor. We have a pyramid tent though, not a tipi. Everything comes apart and fits inside for easy traveling.

We fill it with coals from our outside fire before bed.
Cool site babbi-dan! BTW, I would like to get a pyramid tent (modified). The wife likes having the tipi because it's really big and very cool, and the kids love it, but I hate setting that thing up and taking it down. It's great when it's up, but it's a beast. Pyramids are so much easier to deal with.

[Izzybean]

Take a look at this site.

https://www.strinztipi.com/estore/

Click on stove and iron goods on the left hand side.

We have one of the tent heaters with the spark arrestor. We have a pyramid tent though, not a tipi. Everything comes apart and fits inside for easy traveling.

We fill it with coals from our outside fire before bed.

We are looking to purchase an Officer's Tent from them. We need to sell our teepee first though. Like Thermo we like our teepee but it's a pain to set up. The Officers Tent will be about the same square footage but since it's square we will get better use out of the space.

[ZDMZ]

Take a look at this site.

https://www.strinztipi.com/estore/ (https://www.strinztipi.com/estore/)

Click on stove and iron goods on the left hand side.

We have one of the tent heaters with the spark arrestor. We have a pyramid tent though, not a tipi. Everything comes apart and fits inside for easy traveling.

We fill it with coals from our outside fire before bed.

Thanks a lot:prrr:
That site just cost me $110.
But now I have a double brazier on the way here!:rolleyes (2):

[Babbi-Dan]

Cool site babbi-dan! BTW, I would like to get a pyramid tent (modified). The wife likes having the tipi because it's really big and very cool, and the kids love it, but I hate setting that thing up and taking it down. It's great when it's up, but it's a beast. Pyramids are so much easier to deal with.

We really like our pyramid tent. It goes up fast, but you have to be sure it is square or it will be flapping in the wind! When it gets hot out, we just raise the bottom up and get some airflow.

We have a dining fly that we set up and just lay it against the front of the pyramid tent. A good strong wind will rip the fly and the tent if they are attached. Did you see the pictures my husband mgriffith posted here a while back? It shows how we set up our camp and might give you some ideas.

[Babbi-Dan]

Thanks a lot:prrr:
That site just cost me $110.
But now I have a double brazier on the way here!:rolleyes (2):


Oooo! I would like to have a brazier too. We have often looked at them but have never purchased one. I'm sure you will enjoy it when you use it. Think of me then and maybe the thoughts will be better than the thoughts you are having now!

:a0 (9)::yesnod:

[mgriffith]

We really like our pyramid tent. It goes up fast, but you have to be sure it is square or it will be flapping in the wind! When it gets hot out, we just raise the bottom up and get some airflow.


Babbi-Dan is almost right :l0 (56):

I made a sort of pyramid frame inside the tent, eliminating the center pole, and which we used for a couple years. It worked well, and since the tent was just draped over the frame, you could pull out the stacks and roll up the bottom for some air flow. However, the frame was kind of a pain to setup, and getting the tent down was not easy and involved basically letting it fall over, which almost always broke one of the pieces in the frame. I have been thinking about a better design, but never did it so for now we are still using a center pole, and the stacks need to stay in the ground or the tent will fall over. :ohmy:

Mark

[WolfBrother]

edited to specific


This is the cheapest place I found M-1941 stoves (its where I bought mine):
http://tinyurl.com/yc5gocl

Thermocouple,
Go here http://store.colemans.com/cart/military-yukon-m1950-space-heater-p-2393.html?currency=USD look at the M1950 Yukon stove.

I think you'll like it.

I have one, I wish I had 3.

[DMGNUT]

This is a great thread!
Thanks for all the links.

[mgriffith]

Babbi-Dan and I have a Don Strinz 14'x14' pyramid tent with one of his 11"x11"x24" tent heaters (https://www.strinztipi.com/estore (https://www.strinztipi.com/estore/)).

Thermocouple is right, they are not a "cool" as a tipi, but are much, much easier to put up. From the time you arrive at your camp site, you can have it up in 15 minutes with just one person doing the work, less than 10 minutes with two people working together. This is nice when it's raining!

The 14'x14' weighs about 50-60 pounds and one person can handle it. The 16'x16' starts to get pretty heavy when you're trying to lift the center pole and is more suited where two people will set it up, although one person in good shape can do it. I like pyramids because there is a lot of room around the edges where you can't stand, but can store things. The center pole needs to be very sturdy. A single 2x4 pole will bend a lot at night when the canvas gets wet and tightens up, and you'll wake up to a big "C" in the tent, which makes you realize what that cracking noise was during the night. I took two cedar 2x4's and joined them together and they are plenty strong, and cedar is much lighter than most other woods. We also put coat hooks on there to hang our clothes at night, a very handy place. I experimented with a two piece center pole, but it broke in the middle of the night on a week long camp out and we had a kludged up mess of ropes inside the tent to keep it together. I went back to a one piece pole after that.

The 11"x11"x24" stove is the perfect size. Even when the temperature outside is in the teens, I can get it up to 65 in the tent if there is not too much wind. At the Don Strinz site he has a heat exchanger that fits on the stove that I would really like to get to make it even easier to heat the tent.

In the morning, I'll start a fire in the stove and put a pot on top for hot water, and in about an hour it will be toasty warm in there and we'll have hot water for drinks or to wash up with. The fire only lasts for about an hour so you can't keep it going all night to heat the tent. Some people will throw in a lot of wood and damper it down, but that just causes it to smolder, not release much heat, but spews a ton of sooty smoke from the chimney causing the flue to get really dirty. You just need to build a nice fire before going to bed, get yourself all nice and snug and let the fire burn down while you stay snug under your blankets all night. If you go to bed warm, you should stay warm all night.

For cold weather camping, there is not much you can get that is better than a combination like this!

Mark

PS: But you can't backpack it :001_ssmile:

[jackmormon]

For those who's women may find them more handy then handsome, I made a small stove out of one of the old non-OPD 20 lb. propane tank and a few hours cutting/welding. It will easily roast me out of my 12x12 tent. Total cost? $10 for the chimney sections I bought at NPS.

[DMGNUT]

For those who's women may find them more handy then handsome, I made a small stove out of one of the old non-OPD 20 lb. propane tank and a few hours cutting/welding. It will easily roast me out of my 12x12 tent. Total cost? $10 for the chimney sections I bought at NPS.


We need pics of this... please.

[jackmormon]

Well, Ok then, soon as I get back in town I'll get a pic

[jackmormon]

Here's a picture of the homeade fireplace for any who might be interested, nevermind the rust, I never bothered to paint it.

[DMGNUT]

Way cool Jackmormon.
I ended up going with the Outfitter package from Cylinderstove, w/the longer legs.
It arrived while we were in UT dropping the son at the MTC last week.
Water heater is on back-order, but should arrive shortly.
Lets eat... :vork:

[JayE]

What do you think of this stove?

http://www.walltentshop.com/FourDogStoves.html

http://www.walltentshop.com/4dog_detail.html

[ktcottle]

What do you think of this stove?

http://www.walltentshop.com/FourDogStoves.html

http://www.walltentshop.com/4dog_detail.html

Nice stove - looks very similar to the one I own

http://davistent.com/html/woodstoves.html

[DMGNUT]

Without comparing specifics on metal thickness, etc.
It just looks like a square version of the Cylinder stove.
Looks very nice (and the price seems good too).

[mgriffith]

What do you think of this stove?

http://www.walltentshop.com/FourDogStoves.html

http://www.walltentshop.com/4dog_detail.html

You have to be careful about some of these claims. Holding heat for 10-11 hours is so far out there it borders on an outright lie. :ohmy:

You can damper down a firebox to smolder, and it will still put out SOME heat, but nothing like you would need in a tent on a cold night. And then you'll have to deal with all the smoke a smoldering fire will generate. The people around you won't be happy. Even with a full firebox dampered down all the way, I doubt the fire will continue to burn for 11 hours.

In my years of camping, we would get a good fire going in the camp stove and heat up the tent, and mostly keep it burning hot. It gives off much less smoke (hardly any), and doesn't build up creosote in the flue. Before we went to sleep, we would build up the fire and damper it somewhat, and it would burn for an hour or so before dying down. That would give you enough time to warm up your sleeping bag or blankets and get to sleep in a nice warm tent. When you woke up in the morning, you'd have to start a new fire again. Of course the tent got cold after the fire died down, so you had enough blankets to keep you warm all night (or a couple of dogs). You could schedule yourself to wake up every couple hours and throw more wood on the fire, but you just end up very tired in the morning. If you don't have enough blankets to keep you warm all night, you will be very tired AND cold in the morning.

Also, be careful with those stoves that weight 60 pounds or more. Try moving that around by yourself. And you don't want a stove that is so big you can't move around in the tent.

Mark