New Wood Gasifying Stove

[Whistle]

Some time ago I had some success with a homemade wood gas burning stove but fell out of love with it because typically the places I go do not provide a source of " found stuff " as fuel...

Short of carrying large bags of bulky wood fuel around it became impractical as a camping/hiking stove ...

However since discovering the compressed wood pellets used as cat litter , it has become more practical as the wood pellets are such a dense fuel , burn times are extended and the bulk of fuel required much less ...

One stove full of " found fuel " would burn for 10 - 20 minutes depending on type of wood ... a stove full of wood pellets burns well for an hour and a half !!!

I recently purchased some food flasks cheaply at a boot fair ... but they were inefficient and didn't keep things warm for very long , so I wondered how easy it would be to convert one into a wood gas burning stove ...




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Seems to have worked quite well ... Better than the photo links have !!! LOL !!!



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Here is a linky thingy to my fully annotated Flikr set in case the photos don't work out !!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whistle...7634634916612/

Thanks for looking ... If you are interested I have the links for the making of stove 1 and stove 2 as well ...

Stove 1 ... Prototype
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whistle...7634476907649/

stove 2 ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whistle...7634476089141/

Swirly flame piccys ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whistle...7634482464228/

the photo links in the original thread have long since died ha ha ha !!!

Cheers Whistle

[SimonB]

[Silverback]

[John_McC]

Very neat and tidy been looking for a cheap SS food flask for ages looks like the one you found is spot on well done

[BJ]

Thanks for the link and photo's. very interesting.

[ian c]

That is very nice would not of thought of getting a food flask, will have to keep my eyes open.
Cheers

[Ehecatl]

Cracking idea

[ian c]

Hi Whistle can you put the links up for making stoves 1 and 2 please.

[Whistle]

Hi ian c ...

Thanks for the interest , have put the stove 1 & 2 links up ( and some gratuitous swirly flame piccys too )

the stainless steel storage pots with the clip lids and the tea/sugar/coffee pots were available quite cheaply in Wilkinson's though that was about two years ago now !!!

I left the clip lids on , as I could pre-fill the stove with wood chips or twigs , clip down the lid and it was all contained ...

Thanks for all the thumbs up guys

Cheers Whistle

[shepherd]