Large portable woodgas stove operation
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 at
7:01 pm
Firing up the stove. www.instructables.com www.instructables.com exploratorylaboratory.blogspot.com
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Wow, Your stove would be great for a cabin and would easily handle large cooking jobs for many people.
I’d like to see how your stove does with wood sticks. Great job!
Hey! It burns sticks up pretty quick. You have to put a LOT of sticks in and pack them very tight.
This is a BIG burner for big jobs.
I have the fan airflow matched to the holes. It’s set to do a fairly fast burn so no heavy black soot is created. This creates a really hot burn.
Whatever you pack in the stove must be somewhat dense.
If you burn sticks in a big stove, put them in vertical and cover with a 1 inch layer of pellets.
Thanks bud for the how-to!
What are you burning, wood pellets?
Pretty cool. I like that…it would be useful for cooking for groups or even for heating a small shack or cabin:)
PMZ
Yeah, it’s wood pellets. Make sure you never use one of these large burners indoors. They emit carbon monoxide. Even with the garage door open the fumes are pretty bad after an hour.
I’m going to be building a heat exchanger so you have the burner outside yet can pipe the heated water inside. You then run it into a radiator with a ducted fan behind. Nice safe heat.
Make sure you visit the Instructables link in the sidebar. I’ve got full plans up to build one of these (fancy version).
Jet fuel, wow lol you got to be kidding. That is one crazy stove dude, seems like something MacGyver would dude. Awesome video!
Well, I had a bunch of it laying around. Jet fuel is really similar to diesel. You can take a torch to a puddle of jet or diesel on the floor and it will only smoke a little.
When you put jet or diesel on wood, it soaks in and makes the wood more “combustible”. This all you need. Never use gas or other super volatile things to light a stove like this.
Diesel fuel is safe to carry around in a bottle anywhere.
Yeah, gas would cause a problem wouldn’t it lol.
Beautiful!! What a nice complete burn.. A great idea to have one or two of these in an emergency survival kit.
Nice Stove! Just one question.. Is the fan the only air source for the stove? in the stove im building, i think i have to much air inlet holes.
Ye, the fan is the only air source. It blows through a 2 1/2″ hole. Rest of the stove is fairly airtight.
The air from the fan goes through the internal cowling and out the dual sets of holes. Any extra air pressure might bleed out around the stove rim, but it’s just extra air…not needed.
You have to sort of balance the airflow in a stove like this. My Instructables, if followed exactly will give you a good baseline.