a real wood burning fireplace is possible
A few wood burning units are available for boats and small spaces. has anyone tried ?
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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...
