stove advice

[vizsla]

anybody got any advice or experiance on a good small lightweight woodburning stove design or hobo stove that burns well and dosnt produce much smoke, i have a woodlands edge firebox that is great but to heavy and fiddly for a quick brew when just out for a hour.
thanks ash

 

[Mesquite]

Honey Stove is a good one

 

[JonathanD]

Bush Buddy. Very small and lightweight, burns hotter than regular wood burners and it doesn't produce any smoke once it gets going.

 

[Harmonica]

Consider making yourself a Nimblewill stove - plans here:-

http://www.nimblewillnomad.com/images stove/NimblewillNomadStove.pdf

I had great fun making the stove out of some metal offcuts (excellent dark evening project).

Works really well with wood or solid fuel. Packs up to about the size of a CD case so you can fit it in a large pocket. Mine weighs in at about 250 grams and best of all was completely free!

 

[bigandy]

just take a flask if your only out fotr an hour!! is that me just being pedantic?

 

[Andy T]

take a small meths stove ..........and a small fuel bottle to save searching round for fuel .........complete set up would weigh less than 500gms.

 

[Dougster]

Bush Buddy. Very small and lightweight, burns hotter than regular wood burners and it doesn't produce any smoke once it gets going.

Superb bit of kit. I'll second that.

 

[bilmo-p5]

Is the Bush Buddy a wood gas stove? I made my first wood gassy today and was well impressed.

 

[JonathanD]

Is the Bush Buddy a wood gas stove? I made my first wood gassy today and was well impressed.

Yes it is. They are great performers and you can back it up by storing a meths burner in it too.

 

[vizsla]

thanks every1,
i do like the sound of the bushbuddy mainly because it dosnt produce much smoke which is very important.
could somebody explain woodgas to me? iv got an idea but not sure cheers ash

 

[JonathanD]

Here's a vid with everything you need to know. The Bushcooker is the same as the Buddy, but produced in Europe.

[video=youtube;qBWLlgJD2Ec]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBWLlgJD2Ec[/video]

 

[spiritwalker]

swiss volcano is my stove of choice atm, i tend to use hexamine or those bbq lighters in it for less smoke but you can still use sticks when the situation arises and it comes with a water bottle all for a tenner.... if i had come across it sooner it may have prevented me owning 10 stoves now :-D

 

[Shewie]

Another vote for the Bushbuddy or Bushcooker, I bided my time and eventually picked one up on here and I'm glad I did. The secondary burn makes all the difference once it's burning away, very little smoke.

The Honey stove and other DIY woodburners are also handy, paired up with a simple meths burner and you have a pretty sneaky setup.

 

[R.Lewis]

Can't beat using a homemade Hobo or similar in my mind. Its satisfying when you know you made it to suit you. Mine is probably my most used piece of kit. Am now designing my own fold flat honey stove type design for lightweight camping.

 

[Trunks]

I love my hobo stove. Ilike he look of the bush buddy, but it looks really unstable with the pot balanced on top like that!

 

[JonathanD]

I love my hobo stove. Ilike he look of the bush buddy, but it looks really unstable with the pot balanced on top like that!

It's not unstable, but you do need to put it on flat or flattened ground. It works well with a burner too if you don't want the hassle of wood.

 

[3bears]

Honey Stove is a good one

just acquired one myself, and can recommend, ti goes up in about a minute, and is multifuel .. (wood, hexi, alcohol stove ect...)

 

[Nonsuch]

just acquired one myself, and can recommend, ti goes up in about a minute, and is multifuel .. (wood, hexi, alcohol stove ect...)

Me too

NS

 

[vizsla]

iv just got rid of my woodlands edge and think im gona give making one ago, just not sure weather to try and make a bushbuddy type stove out of a double skin stainless flask, or a more basic hobo stove,
i realy want a stove that dosnt produce too much smoke,think i might keep trying it along the making process to get it as good as i can.
if anybody has any ideas?
cheers

 

[ged]

... any ideas?

Just search for "wood gas stove" with your favourite search engine. There's been a lot of work on this sort of thing for use in deve3loping countries. There's an example of the sort of thing I mean here but you will find dozens of good sources. You might want to try adding something to do with paint cans in your search.