Inspired rather by No Idea, I just tried out my first baby Hobo stove.
I made the first row of holes at the bottom to let the air in, I used that implement on my penknife. Not entirely sure what it's meant for, but it worked.
The tin with a window made for feeding the fire. I used a pair of pliers to bend the edges over so they weren't too sharp.
Berk putting holes in part of his with a hammer and nails
...probably a more sensible way of doing it than mine...
The stove up and running in the garden, with sticks resting on the tent pegs that we used to prop up the cider cans for cooking in. build in stick dryer! And the other one with a can 'heating' on top of the other one...
I put heating in inverted commas there, as it never did really heat up. Berk gave up on his, But I was more persistent, and got the bike pump to get it going a bit more
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It didn't really work. No hot chocolate. The wood was all really wet, and didn't burn that well. The feeding window was too low too, we couldn't put anything on top of the fire really. I'm not too sure if the air holes were working too well either...
We have some more cans, so we are going to give it another try soon. Although we might have to think about how to make the holes, since we don't have a drill...
Any good ideas welcome here.
I made the first row of holes at the bottom to let the air in, I used that implement on my penknife. Not entirely sure what it's meant for, but it worked.
The tin with a window made for feeding the fire. I used a pair of pliers to bend the edges over so they weren't too sharp.
Berk putting holes in part of his with a hammer and nails
...probably a more sensible way of doing it than mine...
The stove up and running in the garden, with sticks resting on the tent pegs that we used to prop up the cider cans for cooking in. build in stick dryer! And the other one with a can 'heating' on top of the other one...
I put heating in inverted commas there, as it never did really heat up. Berk gave up on his, But I was more persistent, and got the bike pump to get it going a bit more
]
It didn't really work. No hot chocolate. The wood was all really wet, and didn't burn that well. The feeding window was too low too, we couldn't put anything on top of the fire really. I'm not too sure if the air holes were working too well either...
We have some more cans, so we are going to give it another try soon. Although we might have to think about how to make the holes, since we don't have a drill...
Any good ideas welcome here.