antwerpman said:
Hello Sandbender, about your Tentipi stove, did the bottom fall of or did it burn through ? .....have a look at
www.moosecamp.nl
Well truthfully it wasn't my stove or my tent, there were twelve of us spread between three varrie 7's all using Tentipi stoves, at three in the morning the base of the stove fell out in one of the other tents, it may have been that whoever was on firewatch at the time may have been hammering firewood into the top of the stove a little too enthusiastically, it wasn't a burn through, the base just fell out.
Happily the tent didn't catch fire (the stove was sitting in the cold well) but at -35 the temperature inside the tent dropped instantly and the four chaps inside took the decision to head back the 500m to their hut. At least they had that option, trying to put a red hot stove back together and get a fire on again wouldn't have been much fun
The stoves from Houtkachel look superb, I'm not moving my lavvu around so much so a cast iron one would be ok, food for thought.