Hobo Stove Gallery (Probably picture heavy)

[Shewie]

Oh, and happy birthday for yesterday. Ooops, make that the day before.

Cheers buddy - spent the day walking round York city walls then found a pub for the rest of the afternoon.

hic

 

[Minotaur]

Cheers buddy - spent the day walking round York city walls then found a pub for the rest of the afternoon.

hic

Goes to show you, how long it has been since I went to York. For the life of me cannot remember the pub we use to drink in. Bizarrely, remember the car park.

Remember the pub in Broughbridge(spelling may be way off), called the new church or clock, brillinat reasturant, and first place had Korenburg blank. Good gaffer too. Also has a camp site, the other side of the car park.

 

[Minotaur]

Pick and choose i think, the mini stove and micro billy (with me mug inside) pack really small (about the size of an 800ml water bottle) ..... when i've fitted the knob n bail that is.

Nice set up!

Wonder if the wind shield solves the strainer problem...

Quick question, what is the tripod made of?

 

[LazySod]

The tripod is three lengths of 8mm dia aluminium tube from B&Q at £2.74 each, and a 1m length of chain at £1.48. All i did was drill a 3mm hole through each tube close to the end, and then feed them onto a keyring. Still to find a pothook (i just know there's a packet of them in the garage somewhere, but can i find it).

 

[Bodge]

The tripod is three lengths of 8mm dia aluminium tube from B&Q at £2.74 each, and a 1m length of chain at £1.48. All i did was drill a 3mm hole through each tube close to the end, and then feed them onto a keyring. Still to find a pothook (i just know there's a packet of them in the garage somewhere, but can i find it).

Nice one Tony, I love the tripod.

 

[Still Waters]

Hi lazysod can i ask where you got that mug from?
Ive been looking for one like that for ages

 

[Pignut]

Here is mine (Detals on my web pages) but you should get the drift from the pictures.

All self contained in the billy, multifuel etc.....

All packed

Components

Assembled

With pan

Burnning meths

Burning wood

Compared to nimblewill

 

[LazySod]

Hi lazysod can i ask where you got that mug from?
Ive been looking for one like that for ages

The mug came from eBay about a year ago, took ages to find.

 

[Pignut]

The mug came from eBay about a year ago, took ages to find.

If you mean the folding wire handle mug I got one from millets for about £3 - £4

 

[Chance]

It's not illustrated, but the hobo shield fits (tightly) around the billy and is retained by the wire handle.

 

[Minotaur]

The tripod is three lengths of 8mm dia aluminium tube from B&Q at £2.74 each, and a 1m length of chain at £1.48. All i did was drill a 3mm hole through each tube close to the end, and then feed them onto a keyring. Still to find a pothook (i just know there's a packet of them in the garage somewhere, but can i find it).

Thanks for that will have to have a nose.

Pignut, do rivets work?

No melting problems?

 

[LazySod]

When buying the aluminium tubes BEWARE,

The 'raw' aluminium tubes i bought for £2.74 were mixed in with the 'anodised' aluminium tubes which cost £3.50.

Check the product codes next to the barcodes, you want the one ending 5202, NOT 5302.

 

[Grebby]

Heres mine

http://picasaweb.google.com/GrebbyIan/Hobo#

The billy is biscuit tin about 13cm diameter and the stove a tea tin from wilkos. The internal cylinder (with holes in) also came from wilkos and was labled as a "bbq stainless steel grill" the bottom mesh was cut from a cutlery draw sepearator thingy.

I then went on the scrounge for some offcuts from a metalworking firm just round the corner from work and came up with this. I do have a wind shield somewhere but raise it off the ground so it just protects the stove billy interface. This allows the stove to be turned so the hole can face into the wind once going which makes it burn HOT. Hot enough to pop ally rivets! I had to replace them with steel.

I've only played with it in the back yard but it will be going out with me as soon as I can get out.

Cheers

Grebby

 

[ZDP-189]

Grebby, that's a fantastic and well made cooker. I'm thinking of making a stove for myself out of thin stainless steel and looked over your photos in detail looking for direction and ideas. Would you please explain the design to me, so that I can learn from your experience. As I see it, your idea is to have a basket that will hold a charge of twigs and then encapsulate it in a jacket that will reflect back some of the radiant heat into the burning coals.

I have a whole bunch of questions: How long is the burn time and approximately how much water does it boil? Is it difficult to feed in new twigs, or to you simply stack in new twigs as the old ones burn down? If so, what happens to the remaining ash? Does the outer jacket soot up or oxidise on the inside and if so does it lose its reflective benefit? Does the jacket help by causing a chimney effect, where a windshear or thermal updraft draws more air into the stack increasing the rate of burn and completing oxidation? Finally, if you were to make another, what would you do differently?

 

[Pignut]

Thanks for that will have to have a nose.

Pignut, do rivets work?

No melting problems?

No mine are Stainless steel

 

[shep]

Here's mine. Based on the Nimblewell, cut from 1.2mm titanium. And in it's own leather pouch.

 

[g4ghb]

Nice one shep - But I must admit to thinking initially 'crikey that bit of plate has warped a bit!'

then realised it was the leather pouch :sulkoff:

 

[shep]

Yep, it's made from a lovely bit of leather taken from a dead antique chair - not some kind of mad superheated trashed titanium plate

 

[Grebby]

Grebby, that's a fantastic and well made cooker. I'm thinking of making a stove for myself out of thin stainless steel and looked over your photos in detail looking for direction and ideas. Would you please explain the design to me, so that I can learn from your experience. As I see it, your idea is to have a basket that will hold a charge of twigs and then encapsulate it in a jacket that will reflect back some of the radiant heat into the burning coals. ?

You put that a lot better that I could have done. It just looked right and made sense when I was putting it together. Only allow the heat out where I wanted it to go i.e up, combined with a chimney effect and good airflow that can be forced in by facing into the wind.

I have a whole bunch of questions: How long is the burn time and approximately how much water does it boil? Is it difficult to feed in new twigs, or to you simply stack in new twigs as the old ones burn down? If so, what happens to the remaining ash? Does the outer jacket soot up or oxidise on the inside and if so does it lose its reflective benefit? Does the jacket help by causing a chimney effect, where a windshear or thermal updraft draws more air into the stack increasing the rate of burn and completing oxidation? Finally, if you were to make another, what would you do differently?

It boiled a full billy (approx 1.7 litres) in about 10 mins I think. I wasn't really timing it and could be way out. I basically lit it and got it going nicely then topped up the fuel and popped the billy on. The one fuel load boiled the billy and I think kept a rolling boil for a while. To top up fuel you can poke bits inbetween billy and stove top but it is easier to lift the billy, it's so stable that this isn't a problem. Any ash just dropped down through the larger mesh into the base but there wasn't much at all, pretty much everything was consumed, including a lot of cider hence the vagueness.

I never noticed any sooting on the inside of the jacket but I've only played with it once or twice. The only mod I've planned and that was sort of there from the start is to make a sliding cover for the air entry slot at the bottom to allow the airflow to be restricted and reduce heat output.

I'll have a slightly more scientific and less drunken play at the weekend and post up the results.

Cheers

Grebby

 

[ZDP-189]

Thanks for the answers. I have a thing for stoves.