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Almost forgot - a hiker going from Rockfish to Front Royal was also carrying this very cool 1942 coleman stove and a quart of fuel for it. Weight for stove and fuel: 5 lbs...
No doubt... He even had the original (1942!) instruction manual with it. That bad boy holds enough fuel to burn for 3 to 3.5 hours and has a 5000 BTU output.
It really was a pretty cool stove though I wouldn't want to lug it around the mountains. The guy carrying it was hiking SNP with his girlfriend and they had *so* much stuff it was unreal.
They were having a great time though and that's what counts. :)
BTW, did you notice the stove came with a wrench that also functions as a pot lifter? Just that weighed half as much as my Primus stove I bet.
that's nice... i'd like to have one, just to look at and not carry.
Google is great!
http://www.coleman.com/coleman/colemancom/photolib.asp?hl=152#152
ShakeyLeggs
05-17-2009, 15:42
The stove pictured is a GI Pocket Stove. It was issued to our troops durring WW2.
http://patentpending.blogs.com/patent_pending_blog/2004/12/the_gi_pocket_s.html
Yep, that's it. This particular stove was sold to the general public because the instruction manual had pictures of a family on a picnic, a whole page showing that a frying pan would fit on the stove, etc.
But it was definitely a GI Pocket stove because the manual devoted a few pages to the military history of the stove.