DIY Backpacking Stove

I made this one, much simpler but getting a fire started from the top is a pain, I think he said he even used alchol for a fire starter! Why not just use an allaky stove?

jureystudio.com/pennystove/pennywood.html

Note one of the comments said it isnt really a gasify stove, but the small twigs burn down to nothing at all, and it doesnt take much to get a cup of hot water. I guess some gases are not completely burned off.

I bought this one:

www.theboilerwerks.com/about/

but I don't use either much, I don't cook in summer, and often NP don't allow their use or collection of even sticks, the NFS might allow them but not in some more fragile areas, or high fire danger, but sometimes they are fun to take and make coffee etc.

BTW, I've made a number of simple DIY stoves, but never came close to the efficiency of the White Box stove. I never tried one like the one featured, though--just the simple kind that you can make with virtually no tools (I might experiment again on that one, not that I think I'll do better, just because it's fun to tinker, and it's been a while since I pushed my skills).

Yep, wood stoves in California (not just the Sierra) would be a pretty bad idea, even though we have had a nice winter, because the drought is not over. This is one of those things where location is quite important.

There are wilderness areas in California where fires are never allowed at all, even before there was a drought. In the Ventana when there's serious fire bans, you can't have ANY stoves at all. No cigarettes, no matches, nothing that sparks, no fire whatsoever at all.

In the higher elevations it's about the scarcity of plants -- there are trees in the high alpine that struggle all their lives trying to grow in granite, that take a long time to grow, and people destroy them for a campfire. The stunted pine on Half Dome is long dead and gone because people ignored the permanent fire ban up there. I was so angry at the guy picking live branches off a pine tree at Pear Lake in Sequoia NP, who refused to believe me that a wood stove was the same as a fire, and he needed to stop killing that little tree, that I found a ranger and reported his stupidity. She took care of the issue.

Continuing with my off-piste attack on this thread on DIY alcohol stoves...with pictures of stoves which are NOT DIY...

Another of Tinny's designs that I took out this morning to boil some water for breakfast.

This one is a personal favorite, even though I sort of got it by chance. It doesn't have a "model name" because, as Tinny said to me later, it was one of his prototypes that got sent out by mistake. He let me keep it, however.

The potstand was designed to perfectly capture a 12cm Imusa aluminum pot (the one in the picture is a 10cm with an MBD lid). The potstand and feet on this stove slide into place in grooves milled into the bottom of the base and store flipped around the stove with the fuel line wrapped around to secure them. Though it may look flimsy, it's very stable. The stove is actually nothing more than an M2SB with legs. The M2SB was another model which Tinny once sold on the MBD website.

The "chicken waterer" fuel feeder on the left uses an 8 oz bottle, and is adjustable over a short range. You match the position of the outlet on the feeder to the height you want to maintain in the stove - so you can have a full burn for boiling or frying or the like - or a simmer for baking and other cooking at low heat without having to attend to the stove directly. When your cooking is done, or nearly done, you simply flip the bottle so no more fuel goes to the stove. Like the Optimus and Primus WG stoves, which shut off when you flip the bottle to the "OFF" position, you soon get adept at guessing approximately when to flip the bottle to achieve the desired cooking result. The stove continues to burn until the fuel in the stove and the fuel line is used.



Here's a picture of the BRS3000T I just got. It's entirely inappropriate to this thread, but I had it out this morning making other food for breakfast, so...

I'm starting to like this little thing after only a few uses. It's really light @ 153 gms, but it has its drawbacks - it's sensitive to wind and a bit delicate (or so I hear): the aluminum threads that attach it to the canister can be easily messed up if you're not careful. I haven't seen any problems so far, but I'm careful when attaching a canister. At $8.53, I think it was a bargain.