I would like to get opinions on the best way to convert a Heiney Keg (steel) to a wood stove for winter use in my tarp (Warbonnet Superfly with doors). I noticed that Tinney at MBD had done a few and given up on the design. I am not a fan of him or MBD, but the idea is a solid one. Has anyone done something similar? Weight is not an issue, but packability is (i will be using a pulk sled).
Thanks!
Matt

No ideas?

Are you talking about one of the large cans, like the 1 gallon can ??

Check out the book by Ole Wik "Woodstoves how to make and use them" You can find it on amazon .com . It is the bible for anyone that wants to make there own tent stove.

http://www.hobohilton.com/hwgs1.html

This thread has a lot of info on wood gas stoves.

This post doesn't have much on the actual stove part, but has some good pics on using a wood stove with a tarp that you may find useful.

http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13588

Just to clarify, i will be using a 5 liter Heiney mini KEG, made of steel, not aluminum. I was thinking of cutting a hole for the pipe in the side and venting it out my tarp. It would also need a platform or legs to hold it up and an opening to feed wood into. Here is a Youtube video of what i have to work with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWJU_AFrJ_4

Matt

I applaud the idea, and would like to hear how it works.

I'm a little skeptical of it, though, as having a wood stove without an enclosed interior will not be very effective, it seems. And if you enclose it, then you will need a chimney and some kind of fire-proof shoe for the stovepipe.

Also, the trick to wood gas is to capture the heat released by the burning gasses, as in the secondary combustion that takes place in masonry heaters. If you have no heat capture device, all the heat will just go up, even if not "in smoke."

Has anybody else actually done this?

I'm not sure how long the steel from one of those kegs would last with fire in it. I think there's probably a reason that most of the wood stoves for heating are titanium.

Huh??

Most stoves are not made with TI. There is actually only 1 I know of and that is Ti-goat.

The oldest and biggest tent stove maker is Kirafu http://www.kifaru.net/stoves2009.html

There is loads of useful information over there on Hot tent camping in their forums http://www.kifaruforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=7

I have seen someone make a stove similar using a coffee can stove pipe, maybe this thread can help you a little: http://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26369&start=240

I think your stove will work great, for a stove pipe, I would purchase a rollable stove pipe by itself from ti-goat. very compact.

I really *did* mean to say titanium or stainless!

I still am not sure how long the mild steel will hold up, though, but it is fairly inexpensive to replace.

Not sure if anything ever came of THIS experiment, but Tinny from MBD had a pretty sweet setup called the "Hooch Heater" I think this is pretty close to what you might be looking for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTt7I8n8gy4&feature=related

I think this mixed with what SmokeHouse has going on over on HammockForums would be a pretty sweet setup!

Yup,MBD Hooch Heater is exactly what i am looking at building. As for the stove pipe, i will be using a Ti-Goat roll up pipe and venting it out the doors of my Superfly, wired to a trekking pole to support the pipe. If i do it right, it should not even come into contact with the fly at all, so no special fire-proofing needed.

Ed Tyanich made what I think is the best ultralight wood burning tent stove.

Here's the post:

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=19345&disable_pagination=1