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My two favorite home made stoves. The top link is for the stove the first stove I ever made and it has accompanied me on many day hikes. This is a simple stove to make. Directions for making it are here (http://www.garlington.biz/Ray/YACCS/).

The stove on the left in this picture (http://bp2.blogger.com/_n-H9SSVlHFs/Re0lGXqS9kI/AAAAAAAAAN8/FkIQYzmOB24/s320/2favstoves.jpg)I just made and I'm very happy with it's performance. It is a bit like an ion stove but with an integrated pot stand. The part the pot rests on is made from both can halves and seems to be sturdy enough.

The fuel port is from the unopened top of a small tomato juice can I pressed the bottom of the same can into the fuel port and cut a hole it what used to be the very bottom of the can. I kept adding holes to the pot support part until the stove was getting enough air to burn fairly hot. The flame shoots out of the holes in the pot support. I was hoping that the flame would just come out the center hole.

I wanted to make a good stove to use with a Heineken can pot and this was not it! This stove burned for 17 minutes on about 2.5 Table spoons of alcohol but the water (1.5 cups) in my Heineken can pot never boiled.

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When I used this stove with my grease pot (with no windscreen or bottom reflector this time) it ran for for 14 minutes, the water (1.5 cups) boiled in just seven minutes and then continued to boil for another seven minutes.

Both stoves have integrated pot stands. I really don't like having a separate pot stand to have to fiddle with. Both stoves are made from just one can.

I ran these tests outdoors using cold tap water. Air temperature was about 37F or 3C. I know most people start with 70 degree F water but I like to test in real world conditions and I hate measuring things too much. I cut 4 times and never measure, I just eyeball everything.

Pest,

Think you could make those photos available without opening a file?

I don't understand why it is doing that.. :( Here is the URL to my blog http://mosswalks.blogspot.com/ and a clickable link here (http://mosswalks.blogspot.com/)

That did the trick. Thanks.

Nice work on the stoves. Nice photos, like the one of the rings made by the stumps. Great item to put in a geocache, homade stove,I think I'll get rid of some of mine that way. Shrooming, good way to use trail time and good food. I use a gps unit to relocate rare plants, fun.

Have you made any wood burning stoves to use some of that timber in your area? You do heat your home with wood, right? or at least supliment?

I cut 4 times and never measure, I just eyeball everything.
I like your approach, I've done my share of it.

Thanks for the compliments on the photos.

My home is heated with a natural gas insert. No I've not tried wood burning stoves yet but I have been considering it. I read that someone here can boil two cups of water using just 5 pinecones. I wonder what kind of pinecones, douglas fir like we have here or bigger cones with bits that are easy to break off?

I use my GPS to mark my mushroom finds so I can go back and find them again the next year.

I used my cat stove on the beach tonight, I keep one in my car for brewing tea and coffee but it sure goes through fuel quickly.

This is a stove that seems to work ok with the can pot it's the same as the first stove I made but with a little more space between the flames and the "potstand". If I make any more space the top part does not stay down in the bottom part except when the weight of the pot is placed on it. Also I've found that this type of stove made with a V-8 type can does not work because V-8 tyep cans do not have a tall enough shoulder.

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Nice flame patern, nice stoves and pot w/lid(cool lid grabber) what do you use to pick up the hot pot?

Pine cones burn with vigor:) and will coat your pot with creosote in short order especially in cool humid conditions. Terripin_t should be able to have some imput on burning wood and pinecones but he uses a commercial air assist stove. He has a good thread on that subject.

As long as the water level is not too high and I am quick about it and can grab the pot with my bare hands gripping it just below the top ring. I can then pour the water out into a bowl (Quickly) or put the can in a bubble wrap cozy that I made for it. When it cools off a bit I can drink out of it. If I take short sips I don't have to wait too long for it to cool off.

I really want to be able to use a can pot because I think they are really kewl.. but I don't know of the trade off in heating efficiency is worth it. I just bought some hardware cloth to make pot stands with. I think the can pot really needs to be used with a chimmney stove.