Room for wood stove?

[BC Dave]

The idea of a wood stove sounds great to all the campers in us; BUT look at "WET" inspections; thers a reason that we have government "Saftey Authoriy" inspections, take heed and get something that has been designed for the application.

I started on the same wood burning tangent; but opted for a pricey propane marine heater that has the same flame effect as a wood burning stove without the saftey concerns of CO2; depleting oxygen etc fuel and weight problems of cast iron. I purchased a Dickinson Propane Stove on sale;( they also make wood burners but there very small and only burn small amounts of wood;) Ive used the newport for 2 seasons down to 16C below zero in a well insulated; home made double glazed CT at 3300 ft elevation and been overheated. Uses propane very efficiently. This is the one product that I have ever endorced; I cant speak more highly of the design and function; GREAT. Picture in my gallery. Theres others out there too designed for boats; I put tones of time into researching the saftey and asthetics and this "hits the nail squarly on the head, flush without a blemish....".

[41willys]

Here is the dickinson heater I installed in our 6x10 trailer, it is a propane heater that produces 8,000btu and is a sealed unit that extracts the air for combustion from outside and exhausts through the same roof vent. I have used this on numerous hunting trips where the temp is minus 12 C (Canadian temp). and it had no problem keeping the temp at 75 deg f inside. I had considered the wood burning unit but the chance of low oxygen/ co2 was too high a risk. The only draw back I have from this unit is there is only 3 settings; off/ 4000btu / 8000 btu. so sometimes the temperature control is the window opening.

I came accross a guy from northen canada who had a wood stove in his trailer. Itwas a wood stove used in a ice fishing cabins it was around 10" round and 25' high vented through the roof and produced enough heat to forge steel! was sleeping with his door open at night.

[Glenlivet]

Nice, 41Willys.

[droid_ca]

these propaine stoves can you add any of the other accessories to them that you see on the wood stoves like say the 2 gallon water heater
Just curious I got an idea

[41willys]

They do not manufacture anything, but we all know that means nothing. I did think of wraping copper tube around the exhaust/intake pipe but because my trailer is a 6x10 by the time the water is hot enough to use the trailer will be 100 deg inside ha ha. I may still do this to use in the fall/winter but right now im acctually working on a small portable propane shower that i can carry down to a creek to use. this stove is mainly for heat no cooktop or easy heat exchanger for water.

sorry didnt mean to mis-discuss origonal thread.

[droid_ca]

my thought was keening more towards the tiny house aspect and a way to have a heated floors with out losing wasted heat out of the pipe thought that it might work but then I also would need a diverter valve encase you don't want the heated floors on and the extra heat could get diverted outside safely ...as a side note it would be nice to use it to generat some power wen not being used to make extra heat... OK back to the regular post sorry about the hijack

[hankaye]

Howdy All;

Just thought I'd throw this out there for consideration ...

http://sheepcamps.com/

Thought I'd stir the pot ...

hank

[jimst]

Hi all, I'm new to the site.
I installed a wall tent stove in my 22' cargo trailer. The stove is not permanently installed, it is designed to be taken down and stowed when I'm traveling down the road. I adapted the chimney from a 6" to a 4" double wall. The pipe runs up through the front ceiling vent. I found a flashing stack from my local home center and adapted it. Three feet of the stove pipe is permanent and extends up about another 18" when the additional pipe is put together and connected to the stove. Water leaking is not an issue nor has it ever been. It takes about 5 minutes to set the stove up.

We use the trailer as a job site trailer. We fire the stove up in the morning and stop feeding it once our lunch break is over. Many times we cook lunch on it, there's also a coffee pot brewing in the morning. We take a full hour lunch in the winter, just to relax and warm up well. The stove does wonders in drying cold wet gloves. My guys love it. I've had it now for 3 years.

By the way, I own a tree service so finding a fuel source for the day is not much of an issue.
I'll try to post some pics when I can figure out how to do so.

[rando18]

Maybe if ya had a big 7x16 or something.
I'd be burning my butt everytime I turned around in a 6x10.
I had a 6x10.

[rando18]

Saw this video on youtube and thought of you.
Hope it is interesting to you. They stove may be.
Rando

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLLYa1AbZHs

[Hiflyer]

http://unforgettablefirellc.com/

Kimberly wood gasification stove

Opinions?

[subterran]

I have done what you want to do. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpU450o6Zuo

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5KPRGK_xqo

If you would like any more information, I will PM you contact information.