Open invitation arctic meet 2017
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One stove not mentioned above is the Liteoutdoors Ti cylinder stoves. Their newest offerings include a full-size door with the vent low down for better burn, and they have replaced the top cables with solid bars for better cooking options. Not tried one personally yet, but give comments on those I have used in sub-Arctic and Arctic. An important rider here is the size of the tent you're heating! Also need to bear in mind that lightweight stoves tend to put out all their heat quickly - which is fine for warming up the place fast, but less good for keeping the tent warm on an ongoing basis. 1-1.5 hours is the most you can expect from a lightweight Ti or SS stove (possible exception is the Fourdog titanium stove, but check out the cost!). Cast iron, and efficient damping, gives a longer effective burn, if slightly slower to bring to temp.
1. Seekoutside - Large Ti stove. Good design, easy to put together, good low vents on the front. With decent wood it would work fine in a 6-man tipi or smaller down to -20C. With damp wood, as a group of us found in the forest north of Oslo a couple of years ago, it used virtually all its heat just to part-dry out the wood-pile!
2. Shepherd stove (Hillpeoplegear). I used this in Jokkmokk last November, with temps down to -27C in an 8-man Seekoutside tipi. Burned well, was nice and warm, but needed refilling frequently - no "throw in some logs and it'll burn all night long"
3. Kifaru - they only seem to be using SS ones now from their website - no Ti. In my opinion, a slightly inferior version to the SO range, mainly because of their vents which are too high up the front - again all this is my opinion. To be fair, in a 4-man Kifaru the medium stove could create a sauna in temps of around 0C - literally too hot to go into the tent when the stove was roaring with a full load of wood.
If I were getting a new stove for my 8-man tipi for winter Arctic conditions, I'd first of all get a liner for the tent to cut down heat loss through the fabric. Then, if I had over $1000 lying around, I'd probably get the Fourdog large Ti stove. Back in the real world, I'd get the Seekoutside XXL SS stove for round $450.
So Andy a XL ti seekoutside stove for a 9x9 tipi for one should be all good then?
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My Seekoutside Ti goat large heats my 9x9 tipi up, very warm
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👍👍👍👍👍 awesome my one is the same but the XL. All good...😉😉😉
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Yep its delivered my mate sent a pic. No idea if its all there or any thing though.
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Good stuff, I've still to do more burns in mine, I'll see what happens to the flue, see if it takes shape or if I need more rings, if I do I'll just use copper wire as you suggested.
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Smallest sticks as possible mate as it will burn a lot hotter.
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In other news, in search of a sleeping mat and stuff that is going to be out of my budget I've found a couple of places that hire kit, if you Google outdoor kit hire etc you'll find them, £30 ish for two week hire of an Exped 9, I'll have some of that thank you 
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I don't know about yours but the door on mine limits the size anyway to about fist size in diameter, still plenty big enough though.
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Errr not seen the door yet...😂😂😂
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For burn-in on my Kifaru 4-man and medium stove, I used some of those hollow fire logs - even Tesco sells them now. Three of those and you got a good 6-ft flame coming out the top of the stovepipe! At night it looked like a UFO, The tipi glowed, the stove was bright red, as was the pipe. One successful burn-in!
Cool im going to nick that idea...😂😂😂😂
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I realise my late confirmation of travel arrangements etc is causing concern, and I don't mean to be a pain, but unfortunately at this moment I can't confirm them. All I can say is I will be there.
Last resort is map coordinates to the campsite and I'll be there on time. I've had the unfortunate pleasure of doing something similar on numerous occasions and I've never failed to appear. Never in sub-zero conditions I hastened to add, but if I have the right clothes and equipment, I'll be there.
Last resort is map coordinates to the campsite and I'll be there on time. I've had the unfortunate pleasure of doing something similar on numerous occasions and I've never failed to appear. Never in sub-zero conditions I hastened to add, but if I have the right clothes and equipment, I'll be there.
