Woodburning Stove

buta4 wrote:
Greetings all,

I was considering the following stove for my large tent.
Unforgettable Fire, LLC Kimberly wood burning stove.

Heats up to 1500 sq feet. Burns 6-8 hours on good wood, like compressed pure wood logs. Oh, and 42,500 BTU!!.

They've had stoves in tents as far back as tents stoves existed.

I don't ever recall hearing of a single fire in the 30+ years I've been in the business.

RoyB wrote:
Back in my tent camping days in the 50s and 60s I made up some metal pipes hanging just above the camp fire then added a small water tank and routed the hot water hose to a modified car radiator sitting just inside the tent.

Worked like gang busters but you had to keep a bonfire going all the time... I never did get the temperature to be adjustable as it was always way too much heat hehe... Did work however...

The small hot water tank was just a holding thing for water. If I added a small water pump I could have adjusted the heat pretty easy. Was just using heat expansion to give me water flow thru the system. I used a DC fan to blow thru the radiator to move some heat around...

This was back in the days where you always brought a big bag full of D-CELLS along with you haha...

With todays toys this hydronic water heater layout for small trailers would work like gang busters in a tent setup...



Roy Ken

It might work fine, with a couple of drawbacks. If you use a aluminum radiator, make sure it is not toxic, - no lead solder. If you use a used radiator, you are somewhat crazy for exposing lead solder in the radiator to the drinking water supply in your RV, even if the radiator did not have to much lead in it, any anti-freeze might have some in it, because most cars had lead in the radiators at some point. Afterall this is your drinking water tank, that you will be showering in, and washing dishes.

Also with a 8,800 Btu input, and probably 6,800 Btu output, you really don't have a lot of heat potential on a really cold night. Might work fine with temps in the 50's, but not much colder. Who wants to hear the roar of a water heater, and the 12 volt pump running to warm the RV all night?

Much better solution for heating a space is a Olympic Catalytic heater, 6,000 and 8,000 Btu input, puts almost as much heat output, glows red, and is somewhat free of carbon monoxide. No 12 volts is required.

Fred.

RoyB wrote:
Back in my tent camping days in the 50s and 60s I made up some metal pipes hanging just above the camp fire then added a small water tank and routed the hot water hose to a modified car radiator sitting just inside the tent.

Worked like gang busters but you had to keep a bonfire going all the time... I never did get the temperature to be adjustable as it was always way too much heat hehe... Did work however...

The small hot water tank was just a holding thing for water. If I added a small water pump I could have adjusted the heat pretty easy. Was just using heat expansion to give me water flow thru the system. I used a DC fan to blow thru the radiator to move some heat around...

This was back in the days where you always brought a big bag full of D-CELLS along with you haha...

With todays toys this hydronic water heater layout for small trailers would work like gang busters in a tent setup...



Roy Ken

Nice idea.....

Not worth the price and I wouldn't have anyone in those videos within 20' of my rig. What a bunch of hacks!
BTW, since they've somehow figured out a way to bypass UL or code compliance on the exhaust stacks, I would expect not too much longevity for their company. One or two fires should fold them up quickly.

FWiW, I just threw a couple of pieces of firewood in my stove, been heating with wood for 40+ years.

Using an outside wood burner to heat my house, I learned I would never have one inside a structure. My is an air tight unit, so it may be different than the one you are looking at, but every time I open the door, smoke comes out, there is the possibility of a huge backdraft fireball (yes-you get burned) and there is lots of ash.

Seems like you could buy a lot of propane for the cost. And safty...

Back in my tent camping days in the 50s and 60s I made up some metal pipes hanging just above the camp fire then added a small water tank and routed the hot water hose to a modified car radiator sitting just inside the tent.

Worked like gang busters but you had to keep a bonfire going all the time... I never did get the temperature to be adjustable as it was always way too much heat hehe... Did work however...

The small hot water tank was just a holding thing for water. If I added a small water pump I could have adjusted the heat pretty easy. Was just using heat expansion to give me water flow thru the system. I used a DC fan to blow thru the radiator to move some heat around...

This was back in the days where you always brought a big bag full of D-CELLS along with you haha...

With todays toys this hydronic water heater layout for small trailers would work like gang busters in a tent setup...



Roy Ken

B.O. Plenty wrote:
looks like a good way to burn your rig up with that Hillbilly chimney installation in their video...You can have the one they were saving for me...That roof jack installation sure looks professional.

B.O.

Ya, I guess you've got something there alright. But is it fair to blame the STOVE and not the INSTALLER???

There are several videos. One in a smaller class C I think.
I would expect that the installation of the stove and stovepipe would be done safely, as in the video with the inventor installing it himself in another rv.

Another install is in a sailboat and nicely done. Look at that one. Plus the one installed in the Yurt.

And, a lot of people on this form don't live in the Hills and their names ain't Billy... :B

Im just finishing up a wood stove made out of an old propane bottle (Free)it has a 3" chimney got the idea from a you tube video. I plan on using it in my ice hut this year instead of propane heat

looks like a good way to burn your rig up with that Hillbilly chimney installation in their video...You can have the one they were saving for me...That roof jack installation sure looks professional.

B.O.