a real wood burning fireplace is possible

I have seen them used in a "porch", off of the RV, under the awning. The airtight stove provides a lot of heat that transfers into the RV. Here's a link to a similar setup, but using a Canvas Wall Tent.
http://www.deluxewalltents.com/stoves.htm
They are as safe as the owners awareness! They have been used as such for over a hundred years.

daytona7 wrote:
Pellet Stove! Firebox is inclosed, no soot or chance of smoke or flame escaping. Only need about 4 inch clearence on rear for exhaust and you can use a cloths dryer vent

This is not right, you need a Type "L" vent pipe for pellet stoves. It has an inner stainless steel pipe and a steel outer pipe. For a wood fired stove, a Type "A" vent is necessary. Propane or Natural Gas fired appliances use a Type "B" vent. For any of these installations, if the stack intersects a wall, roof, or ceiling, the appropriate thimble and standoffs are required.

I have a non-traditional propane heater in my trailer. It is surrounded on three sides and the bottom with masonry sheet and quarry tile. It has both flue air and combustion air piped from the outside. This would be similar to how one would implement a small wood stove inside an RV. The vent would, of course, be different than the Class B vent I used.

Pellet Stove! Firebox is inclosed, no soot or chance of smoke or flame escaping. Only need about 4 inch clearence on rear for exhaust and you can use a cloths dryer vent

Have you thought about a Pellet stove? Some will even burn Corn besides wood pellets

Gdetrailer wrote:

JaxDad wrote:
Henny Penny, stand back. The sky is falling!

:h

No body has mentioned falling sky except your post.

Pretty much summing up the overall mood of the posts is using a solid fuel heater like a wood burner in a very small RV space surrounded by very combustible materials is a BAD IDEA.

While it may be "possible" it seriously is a bad idea to do so.

Jax, have you ever operated a wood stove?

Have you ever had to deal with ashes, live coals, lack of draft (IE downdrafts)?

Have you every had a creosote fire? I have, pretty scary to say the least.

You have to clean the stack on a regular basis to keep the creosote from building up.

Have you ever experienced liquid creosote? I have, sometimes the wood may have more moisture content than it should, the liquid creosote condenses in the stack and runs out all the joints of the pipe back to the stove. Stains everything and makes your entire house smell like a smoke house for weeks..

You have to empty the stove of ashes, typically you will be removing them while the stove is being used which means you will be handling HOT ashes AND some live coals. Have to put them in a METAL bucket and PLACE the bucket outside of the RV (plastic buckets will melt or catch fire and leaving a bucket of live coals inside the RV and you will wake up DEAD).

Wood stove ashes tend to be very fine and hot ashes just plain dust up the place. A very small space like a RV and you WILL be vacuuming your RV everytime you remove the ashes provided you don't drop any hot coals on the RV floor..

Using a wood stove means you NEED DRY wood, basically put you will have to cut and haul all your wood in advance of your trip (wood needs to dry 6months to a year), must be kept dry (IE COVERED) and if you are hauling it one cord of wood (4'x'4'x8') will weigh in at a hefty 3K lbs - 4K lbs depending on the species.

Then there is ants, bees and many other cool little creatures which LOVE wood...

RVs and wood stoves, just a combination that should not happen...

LOL, actually you ended your post on page 2 with "Its your life, your property, your money, do what you will with it.."

In order to your questions;

Yes, I've operated a variety of wood-burning appliances since I was a young boy.

Coals & ashes? Daily for 6 months of every year.

Creosote fire? Nope, I'm not that dumb, I only burn 2+ year old hardwood. Besides since I have over a dozen wood-burners I took the course and got my WETT certification. You?

Liquid creosote? Seriously? What you pruning? Freshly cut pine?

Haul a cord of wood with you going camping? For the whole winter maybe.

Funny that RV's and wood stoves don't mix, I've seen hundreds of wooden boats with wood or oil burning stoves in them, never heard of a single one burning because of them.

In fact I'd be willing to bet the number of campers burning up because of cigarettes and space heaters is in the hundreds a year.

Gee, GDE...ya make it sound like work. ;)

Gonna have to rethink our heating strategy here at home...it's just part of the routine around here!

JaxDad wrote:
Henny Penny, stand back. The sky is falling!

:h

No body has mentioned falling sky except your post.

Pretty much summing up the overall mood of the posts is using a solid fuel heater like a wood burner in a very small RV space surrounded by very combustible materials is a BAD IDEA.

While it may be "possible" it seriously is a bad idea to do so.

Jax, have you ever operated a wood stove?

Have you ever had to deal with ashes, live coals, lack of draft (IE downdrafts)?

Have you every had a creosote fire? I have, pretty scary to say the least.

You have to clean the stack on a regular basis to keep the creosote from building up.

Have you ever experienced liquid creosote? I have, sometimes the wood may have more moisture content than it should, the liquid creosote condenses in the stack and runs out all the joints of the pipe back to the stove. Stains everything and makes your entire house smell like a smoke house for weeks..

You have to empty the stove of ashes, typically you will be removing them while the stove is being used which means you will be handling HOT ashes AND some live coals. Have to put them in a METAL bucket and PLACE the bucket outside of the RV (plastic buckets will melt or catch fire and leaving a bucket of live coals inside the RV and you will wake up DEAD).

Wood stove ashes tend to be very fine and hot ashes just plain dust up the place. A very small space like a RV and you WILL be vacuuming your RV everytime you remove the ashes provided you don't drop any hot coals on the RV floor..

Using a wood stove means you NEED DRY wood, basically put you will have to cut and haul all your wood in advance of your trip (wood needs to dry 6months to a year), must be kept dry (IE COVERED) and if you are hauling it one cord of wood (4'x'4'x8') will weigh in at a hefty 3K lbs - 4K lbs depending on the species.

Then there is ants, bees and many other cool little creatures which LOVE wood...

RVs and wood stoves, just a combination that should not happen...

Henny Penny, stand back. The sky is falling!

Why would anyone want to try this? It takes up a lot of extra space. There is offset required from other objects. This puts it in the middle of the coach. You have to carry or buy wood, bith of which are more costly. You have to clean it and then the coach.

Not for me.

I just turned off the small electric 1000w heater in the Hilton after I got a couple of pieces of firewood into the garage wood stove. It ran for 5 hours from an ambient 25. It's 75 in the garage and 70 in the Hilton.
I may start heating the garage with NG, firewood is just too darn much work. The trailer will stay on propane or electric.