Wood stoves

I had a 41' sailboat with a COAL stove in it...made for marine applications... small size, however, put out a bunch of heat.........

blazenpm wrote:
I have a 1989 31ft. Bounder. I have a propane heater in the motorhome. Does yours' work? I would be very apprehensive to put a wood burning stove in my motorhome. The opportunity for a fire is way to possible. When a motorhome catches fire, it becomes a pile of ashes in just a matter of minutes. My advice spend a little an fix your heater if it is broken or use it instead of putting a wood burning stove inside your motorhome. I am a retired firefighter/paramedic.

I have no idea how to turn the furnace on. The gauge (like on the wall in a house) is in the bedroom and I put it up to about 70 and nothing happened. This could be because the house battery is dead or gone. I don't know because I don't know where that is either. The user manual doesn't say where the battery is locates. We want to put some solar panels on the roof and put a new batter bank in. If I have propane furnace maybe the panels would power the furnace.

You might want to do a search on schoolies or little homes...probably more wood stoves in them than in factory-built RVs. I don't think I would care to have a wood stove in my motorhome, given how poorly most fair in the event of a fire (and how quickly the fire spreads). That said, with enough work and care, I suspect a safe installation could be possible.

The main problems I foresee would be having adequate clearance and heat shielding around the stove and getting an appropriate safe chimney of some sort. That you aren't going to be taking it down the road is, of course, a distinct advantage for the chimney installation.

Possibly a marine/yacht stove would be the most practical; boats have similar sorts of space constraints as do RVs, and are often made of similarly combustible materials (at least boats in which a wood stove would typically be installed).

It's tricky, most wood-stoves are too large for the size (sq-ft) of an RV. You would need the smallest stove you can find.
You would also need to install it such that it's 100% safe, which ads some levels of problems, like bringing in combustion air to the stove (most RVs are too tight to try using the rigs "air" for combustion).

Me, I's use propane and get a good (quiet) generator to insure there is enough power to run the rigs furnace.

I have a 1989 31ft. Bounder. I have a propane heater in the motorhome. Does yours' work? I would be very apprehensive to put a wood burning stove in my motorhome. The opportunity for a fire is way to possible. When a motorhome catches fire, it becomes a pile of ashes in just a matter of minutes. My advice spend a little an fix your heater if it is broken or use it instead of putting a wood burning stove inside your motorhome. I am a retired firefighter/paramedic.

I've seen a guy with a woodstove in the backseat of his old 4 door Chevy Impala.
Actually, he removed the backseat and installed the stove.
It worked. But, I thought it was scary.

Yes, you can put it in an RV. Just make sure it's installed safely.

yup.

But not me.

I have, however, seen it done.