tent stove?

[Dave2old]

I know we've done this before, but I didn't pay close attention then since I didn't own a nice big canvas tent, which I just bought. I can get a top-end small steel barrel stove for $225 but it weighs 40 pounds and is probably more than I need for a tight heavy 12x12 canvas tent. I'd appreciate your advice on foremost SAFE, then affordable, lightweight packable tent stoves, 4" pipe. Thankee kindly! dave

[Mohawkbows]

The folks at Kifuru [spelling] down in Golden make a nice light weight stainless foldable and packable rig for their lightweight tents. Took one to Alaska in September but didn't even use it. I don't know if they have a web site or not.

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

The kifuru pack stove is available through Cabelas if you can't find it anywhere else or just wanted to take a look at it.

[Lost Arra]

http://www.kifaru.net/TIPI.HTM  

They have stoves of varying sizes.

I have not seen the Kifaru stove on the Cabelas website.

[wingnut]

the kifaru stove is only useful in light pack situations.  We used one on a fly in hunt in Alaska.  It has since been retired and replaced.  For a 12x12 canvas you are not going to be back packing it.  So go with a small wood stove like a 2 dog or something along that line.

Do a google search on tent wood stoves.

You should get a bunch of stuff.

We have a 5 dog for our 16x20

Mike

[Lost Arra]

>>For a 12x12 canvas you are not going to be back packing it.<<

Good point.
Mike: what size K stove did you retire? Do you want to sell it?  

[Rooselk]

Check out Cylinder Stoves:

  Cylinder Stoves  

Excellent quality. They'll do the job and you'll never have to buy another one.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

those little propane heaters might work

[Roughcountry]

I made a couple stainless stoves for my tents. A 12 by 12 by 24" keeps my 10 by 12' tent warm down to about 15 degrees. If I tarp the top of the tent it's good to below zero.

The stoves were made of old resterant diswashers and popriveted together at the bottom, use steel rivets and they last a longtime.
Both stoves can be packed in by horses, they aren't heavy.

[John Havard]

Mike's right - I replaced my Kifaru Arctic stove with the 4-Dog Ultralight II in titanium.  It's the cat's meow.  I had added titanium stove pipe made for it and the total is incredibly light.  Here's the link:

 http://www.fourdog.com/page3.html

[myshootinstinks]

For around $100 you should be able to find a GI stove from a surplus store.  The problem w/ light stoves is they tend to burn faster and the thin metal doesn't radiate heat as well as the heavier steel. The GI model loads from the top and will burn fairly slow. The unit weighs around 30 lbs.

[Steve O]

I'd listen to John...he is always one step ahead of me!  4 Dogs is what I was going to suggest.

John, we need to talk about a package deal on that hat and yak...

[wingnut]

The Four Dog, Five dog model will drive you out of our 16x20x5 outfitters tent when it's in the teens outside.  I have no doubt we could be playing cards in shirt sleeves at below zero.  I've been in a lot of camps over the years and seen a lot of stoves.  

IMHO there are a few things that it doesn't make sense to be cheap on: Tent, sleeping bag and stove.

Everything else can be a el cheapo but those things have to work everytime.

I think a 2 dog model would work great in the 12x12.

Mike

BTW the kafiru stove I was talking about was John's.  We used it on a fly in moose hunt in Alaska.

[Steve B.]

Sportsman's warehouse sells a line of packable steel stoves that are light and reasonably priced.

[Paul WA]

My brother uses a barrel stove kit, at 10 degrees you are literally sleeping on top of your sleeping bag...PR

[centaur]

A bit pricey, but the Sims stove is kind of the standard in Wyo/Montana for pack stoves;
 http://www.wtp.net/simsstov/
I used one for years when camping in wall tents, and they are pretty efficient and fold down to be easily packed, either in your pickup or on horses.

[Bill Shepard]

I bought my 14X16 wall tent and stove from  www.davistent.com   My wife and I spent 10 days in the Black Hills, in 12 degree weather, quite comfortably with the large stove.  

You definitely won't be packing it anywhere, but it came at a good price and good customer service.

[Rooselk]

Those stoves that Davis Tents are selling look very similar to the Cylinder Stoves.

(BTW, I'm in the market for a new wall tent and hope to purchase one this winter. I've checked around and I'm already pretty well sold on the Davis Tents.)

[Hattrick]

i have a davis an had it for 10-12yrs I use it every year an its still in good shape, i sometimes wish i would of bought a tipi having that open fire is kinda COOL

[Hattrick]

Sorry the question was about stoves , i have one of those Davis sells its the mid size an  heats really well, i would buy the larger one if i did it again cuz it will hold more wood wick means the fire last last longer