Frontier stove

[dennydrewcook]

Was thinking about purchasing a frontier stove with bday money can anyone tell me if they'd be good for hiking or camping I'll use it with a polish army poncho tent or would that be to much?

Has anyone got any traditional ways of heating a tent that would be cheaper and better for the poncho tent ?

Denny

 

[tommy the cat]

Ive got say Ive used the polish poncho tent in snow and a trangia burner heated it up!!!
Id say way too much for such a small space.
D

 

[Shewie]

I agree with TTC, I've been in a Bergans 8 man lavvo with a Frontier running and it was toasty

Something like a DIY ammo box stove might be better

 

[londonscrub]

Id say car or canoe... It's base camp kit not hiking...


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[petrochemicals]

Ive got say Ive used the polish poncho tent in snow and a trangia burner heated it up!!!
Id say way too much for such a small space.
D

how did you find carrying the fuel for it though ?a frontier stove may be lighter after you take that into consideration.

 

[Kerne]

Id say car or canoe... It's base camp kit not hiking...


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Seconded. I only use mine when all I have to do is carry it from the car to the campsite. Weighs much more than a trangia and fuel and is too bulky to hike with. It is, however, a cracking bit of kit. We often use it at home to cook on as an adjunct to the BBQ as well.

 

[londonscrub]

Agreed kern, the great thing at home is if it's not the height of summer it gathers people like a patio heater.

I use mine with a 4m bell tent and I wouldn't even want to unload the car on my own... However it is great fun when you're set up. I've never used it in very cold weather (that's my next mission) and I found the tent too warm to sleep comfortably! On my own I use a mini trangia and Fire...


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[dennydrewcook]

Hey ttc would a trangia not give off carbon monoxide ? I had my suspicions that it would be way to big and quite expensive in relations to other way

 

[dennydrewcook]

I agree with TTC, I've been in a Bergans 8 man lavvo with a Frontier running and it was toasty

Something like a DIY ammo box stove might be better

Sounds decent would it be an easy make?

 

[British Red]

Hey ttc would a trangia not give off carbon monoxide ?

Is your poncho tent totally airtight?

If not, don't worry about it.

 

[dennydrewcook]

Is your poncho tent totally airtight?

If not, don't worry about it.

So a small crack in the door fixes that?

 

[British Red]

Yup, or venting around the bottom - or top. CO comes when you burn with insufficient airflow. I am sat in my living room with a HUGE woodburning stove going. Is your poncho shelter more airtight than a house?

 

[River98]

I'm looking at a similar purchase. Going to get a carbon monoxide and smoke alarm to use in my tent

 

[petrochemicals]

Yup, or venting around the bottom - or top. CO comes when you burn with insufficient airflow. I am sat in my living room with a HUGE woodburning stove going. Is your poncho shelter more airtight than a house?

I have said this before, the new super efficient houses that cost something like 100 pounds a year to heat achieve this in a large way by exchanging the heat in the air that's vented into the fresh air intake. Same with a tent, you can either suffocate and drown in condensation, damp etc, or freeze, but you have to vent, and an open flame (not an enclosed stove with pipe) it is just wasted. All camping heaters I have seem work off infra red, like open fires do. Don't know if there's a way of doing infrared with a trangia. If I had a frontier stove or one in a house, an air intake from outside would improve the efficiency a good deal. Hot air rises out the top of the vent.

 

[dennydrewcook]

I had thought if you had a vent It would be pointless heating it as it would still be cold from the air getting in?

 

[British Red]

No, you must have ventilation with every heating system or you die

 

[dennydrewcook]

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[rik_uk3]

With a tent so small as the poncho setup I can't see why you need to heat it at all if your clothing and sleeping bag suit the season your camping in. A candle lantern will take the chill off the air in the poncho tent, a small gas lantern will heat the tent.

I use this to heat my shed and even just 'ticking' over its around 20c in there.

 

[Stingray]

What's that sitting on the top of the stove Rik? Is it a heating adaptor?

 

[Shewie]

Sounds decent would it be an easy make?

There's loads of good info about on DIY stoves and tent mods

Addo who's a member on here made one a few years back .. http://woodsmancrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/polish-lavvu-in-snow-with-at-at-stove.html