I've been viewing this stove from afar for a few years, weight aside has anybody got any experience or thoughts on them. Don't know how to insert a shortcut but it can be found at www.campmor.com. Thought's appreciated.
Sierra Zip Woodburning Camping Stove
- Thread starter SCOMAN
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Sadly there are lots of reviews on various websites complaining of its weight and stability problems. Several sites list several necessary modifications to make the stove into a top ten stoves to have, these include a reduction in weight, some way of stabilising the pot stand. Its Simple things that let it down, like adding a simple arrow to the battery pack so you dont fit the battery backwards (the motor will run either way, but if you run it the wrong way it will suck heat and soot downwards, running the risk of damaging/.destroying the motor and or the wires)SCOMAN said:
I would say that the stove may be a useful summer stove when dry wood is readily available. But the need to constantly tend the stove and poor design where you have to remove the cooking pot to add fuel, this would limit the times when I would consider the weight of the stove worth lugging about.
Were I to need a wood burning stove, I make something along the lines of Nimblewill Nomad Stove, a flat pack slot together stove, and a copper blow pipe to act as the air supply.
This is the way ti go they don't make them no more hard to find one could build if he had to can come close just need some good pic. for blue print
I think I might have seen them before on here but I found these
http://www.occuk.co.uk/outdoor/index.htm
http://www.occuk.co.uk/outdoor/index.htm
I am hoping to pick one up in the middle of next week, so I'll let you know more with luck. I am after the large one.SCOMAN said:Cheers beachleader might look into that one roll on payday.
I dont see the need for a fan on the sierra zip . A blacksmith forge runs at very high temperatures , hence it needs the blower to achieve the desired heat . a cooking stove running on wood or charcoal shoul get plenty hot enough to boil your water etc . Adding a fan to the equation will just burn your fuel a lot faster and waste possibly prescious resourses . Even on a forge it is easy to get too hot by putting to much air through it , i managed to get mine so hot the fire bricks and the exterior were glowing bright red . Melted the tueyre straight off !!!!
It should be reasonably simple to knock up a small take down wood burning stove that would fit in your back pack . It should also cost a lot less than thirty notes !!!
Pumbaa
It should be reasonably simple to knock up a small take down wood burning stove that would fit in your back pack . It should also cost a lot less than thirty notes !!!
Pumbaa
MagiKelly
Making memories since '67
I know Beachlover has got his now.
http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=52
Chris who makes them is a member on SotP and is a top bloke but I have no experiance of the fireboxes myself.
http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=52
Chris who makes them is a member on SotP and is a top bloke but I have no experiance of the fireboxes myself.
This guy made his own!! http://forums.outdoors-magazine.com/viewtopic.php?p=43536#43536SCOMAN said:
