DIY Hot Tent Stove Build
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In this episode of shop talk we'll build a do it yourself hot tent stove from basic hardware store parts. Be sure to check out my testing video before building this stove! Also please make sure you're familiar with the risks of using galvanized metal in an enclosed space. A solid burn in will be needed before use.
Here's where I got the idea: • 174. Paint Can Stove -...
Hot tent stove (2 lbs)
Items
- 1/4" 6" hex bolt X4 $0.65 each
- 3" adjustable elbow 30GA $4.10
- Paint Bucket $4.98
- Wing Nut 4 pack x2 $1.18 each
- Jam nut 8 pack $1.18
- Duct cap rectangular. 14" X 8" $6.36
- Hasp Latch $2.54
- 1" hinge 2 pack $1.68
Total = $24.62
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Great little stove as someone who's worked with metal for over 20 years I just wanted to share Metal fumes when inhaled can cause dizziness and nausea. If you are exposed to them over a long time, even in small quantities, they can cause lung damage, and cancers of the lungs, larynx, and urinary tract. They also cause metal fume fever, stomach ulcers, kidney damage, and damage to the central nervous system. For example, Manganese fumes may cause symptoms similar to Parkinson’s disease.
If you are burning metal that is plated, galvanised, or painted, you could generate Lead, Zinc, or Cadmium fumes, all of which are dangerous. Extremely toxic and over time can be leathal just be Shure to cook it off in a well vented atmosphere before using it just get it red hot and let the metal gas off before using it in a tent or camper and you'll be just fine .. great job it's a good looking little stove 👍
If you plan to use a stove in a tent you should add an air intake to bring in fresh air from outside so you don't risk low oxigen in your tent.
Excellent , great to see someone working away whilst thinking the job through . Not everyone would do it in exactly the same way but thats half the fun i think ...thank you for posting .
Thanks for the kind words and for watching! 🤙
(Molly here) I am sending your channel to my husband (the aptly named “CoCo”).
He has a shop in the garage and is always building/fixing/tinkering. He is going to love your channel!
Cool!! I have more DIY stuff in the works.Thanks for stopping by. 🤙
VERY nice.
If you can find a square/rectangle can, you can use the top as a stove.
Thanks for taking the bullet for us, I think I rather go with a rectangular type. A surface on top and possibly oven features. Also air intake from outside is needed from what I’ve seen, thanks. I guess a flat plate could be fixed to the top but.
Mini...BRAVO...!
Thanks!
Nice. Was looking for a same idea, with low budget to make one. I save your video for later viewing. thanks
Loved this . We are trying to make one at this very minute 😂
Hello and good morning from The Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺
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Awesome, you'll have to let me know how it turns out! 🤙
I love this build.
Thanks man!
Hey watching from the Uk I like your stove it’s basic enough that anyone can build but it’s still professionally built
Have you thought about adding a second can to sit above. Like the barrel stoves or using a small baffle to hold the heat in longer before it exits
Just thought I’d drop you a line keep it up mate
Btw so jealous of your beautiful country it’s so amazing you have so many options to see and with total different landscapes too
I love the fact you can go off camping for the weekend alone somewhere so wide open and empty of humans and you could be the only person on the plant
Anyway I wanted to give you the compliment keep the videos coming 😁👍🏻
That would be a cool idea! Thanks for the kind words. I do love the wilderness where I live. It's a wild place for sure. There are some beautifully wild places over the pond as well. Maybe someday I'll leap the pond and explore your neck of the woods. I appreciate you watching. ✌️🤠
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What a lovely video,and channel.Hope you have a lovely 2022 and stay safe debs xx..ps commented twice bots removed them
Thanks for watching! Hope you have a great 2022 as well. 🏕️
thank you for sharing this useful information. we wait for your next
You're welcome, thanks for watching. 🤙
Fantastic ideas, great video. Could you make an update video of it in operation? or perhaps extend this one to answer a few questions like.
Did you leave the lid removable?
Did you test it?
What worked best?
What would you change?
Some suggestions for the next design. If you ever are inclined.
1. I would use the can vertically, as opposed to horizontally. That would:
Give me a top surface for heating water, cooking, etc. and would eliminate the need for the bottom plate.
2. I'd get a smaller pipe/elbow.
3. I'd make the door a slide instead of hinged so it can provide venting and heat regulation.
4. I would have an ash reservoir that's removable by using the lid at the bottom and leaving it removable.
5. I'd design legs that it can nestle into rather than screw on.
These ideas are based on my own camping experience but not on an actual design. I'd be interested to know if there are issues with this concept or you think it is doable.
In any case, I enjoyed the video and concept very much. I also think your videography is high quality, not too much extraneous chatter, but also not to dry and impersonal. Iove the fast forward points rather than just cutting out to where it is already done. it helps create a sense of being along on the ride.
Camera and lighting are also pretty comfortable and clear. These are all things that detract from otherwise great videos (not in your production) so I appreciate your having considered these aspects.
Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the video! You have some good ideas.💡 You could get away with a smaller pipe but 3" is pretty standard so I went with that to stay compatible with my other stoves. I did leave the lid removable. I have couple test videos, take a peek if you like. 🤙
I just watched his video. Comments were turned off. His Hot Tent stove would just go out if he closed the door. It looked good, but there was no air intake for the stove to stay "alive".
Good stuff man, job well done
Thanks for watching. ✌️🤠
Could have shortened the legs instead of drilling new holes but it would have been pretty low
It's amazing how hard it is just to find a plain stainless steel box online.
I've heard you shouldn't use aluminum or tin because they have a low melting point and tin rusts easily.
The best material is iron because it wont overheat, but its very heavy and requires an angle grinder and welder to make anything out of it.
Steel is the second best but its expensive for something your making to hold burning material, and conducts heat too easily.
Awesome stove man!
Thanks JohnMark, I hope it works. I plan to test it this weekend.
I take a stove pipe
10 '' circumference x 14 '' long ..... with 2 female cap
better quality of metal ... heats up enormously more
and is much more durable.
than a gallon of paint ...
little tip make your chimney pipe outlet at the back of the stove it leaves you a larger cooking surface
good video
That sounds like a much more powerful stove setup. I like the idea of putting the chimney pipe out the back of the stove rather than out the top. I bet you lose a lot less heat up the chimney in that configuration as well.
Thanks for checking out the channel.
Where can you get stove pipe and how much is it
Paint can is $5
Stove pipe with 2 end caps is like $50-$90
Built a 14" x 6" x 6" box from regular flashing, screws on a fitted back and front with gang plank door w/ toggle. Used aluminum tubing from lawn chairs for pipes and they are big enough to draw like a torch. Has not melted yet.
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You don’t need that base plate thing you can get more stability and versatility just using the buts and bolts as 4 individual legs then you would have less set up time less screwing less room and weight but toy so need to make a small flat piece inside about and inch or two from the bottom with 1/4” holes for ash to fall through and air to flow under the fire, and it’s got to be removable to get the ash out.
@DrugTalk 101 I hear ya, I'm not sure if that base plate will be worth the hassle on the snow. I'll test it on the snow in the near future in both configurations. Have a Merry Christmas!
Signal Outdoors Merry Christmas!
I love this what a great idea, and easy build. Cool!
Thanks, I've recently started messing with converting this stove to burn wood pellets. More testing is needed but it looking promising. Thanks for watching! 🤙
Wow! So cool!
Thanks!
Use brackets for legs instead of those thin rods
great video
Thanks!
Awesome video-
Thanks!
Did you use safety glasses ?
Just put draft doors over the holes like the bbq grills
Why would you take it apart at all?? Does not seem to take up to much space. Also, you could get a metal shed door handle and rivet it to the top to carry it around.
I wanted the option to take the legs off so I could fit it in a pack or something.
best tent stove would on the ground..... you end up heating the earth....
get a long closet rod... add 2 holes at the end to put in tent peg key to lock the rod in..
cut a hole on the side of the paint can.... Use a good knife with you with and tin snips...
add 2 more holes for the tent peg key.....
snip out a front door..... get a soup can to create a door....
since its on the ground it will heat the sand up.....
One way is to cut logs to frame your shelter base....
use your camp shovel to sink them in around your tent....
Around your stove add nice size rocks around it.....
The stove like this will last 2 hours and you need to sleep 6 to 8....
If the stove is off the ground you freeze in to 2 hours or you need lots of wood...
When the fire is on the grown you supper heat the area mass with a tiny stove...
wood is an insulator and if you can add 4 logs like 4 inch wide and sink them in the ground will create a thermal bed and the deeper the bed the better.... Its way less fire wood you'll need to cut....
the edge of the tent should be on the logs and air tight the base.....
You look for place that you can dig a trench and proper dead trees you can cut....
Trench the dirt on the out side so if it rains it diverts the water....
you want to keep the water out of the thermal bed.....
===so when you make a tiny fire for 2 hours the ground will hold heat ===
Just make fire in the morning heat the ground up again and your good for the day...
it needs to prevents the transfer of heat and moisture from stone to stone Or leaves or pine needles....
frost levels can range from 0 to 2.4 m and you want the bed to stay supper dry
More complex one would be made from logs like a sand box and fill with a foot+ of sand...
with leaves or pine needles around the edge as the insulator...
so you start with a trench and 4 logs in an area that you can dig... then improve it by digging deeper each day....with 4 new logs... once get the depth insulate it ...
you could go like 2 logs deep and 2 logs high.... now your tent sits on a mount....
just re insulate every year with leaves or pine needles to trap the heat.... the bugs will eat the leaves or pine needles and wood in the summer... tarps or plastic will rot....
logs are the best with .. pine needles with good foot of sand you pulled out......
Wow! I can see you've thought about this one. Someday I would like to build a more permanent shelter like what you describe. Maybe if I get some wooded land someday. Thanks for watching and take care. 🤙
@@SignalOutdoors you can buy floor foam mats 2 feet wide... simply dig a trench sink it in the grown like sand box..
they have inter lock mats.... this would create a insulated barrier and in spring pull them out so they don't rot ... and you can just leave space for the fire pit and you can walk on foam mats.... wood logs is the best as the wall then a foam mat.... you can now capture the heat and would only need 2 fires a day .. running a fire pi 24hours a day takes a lot of wood to chop... once your in your sleeping bag.. this one would only need some dry branch's.... if the ground say worm you stay worm... a fire stove will only heat the air when it goes out the grown gets cold ..
Foam mats tend to stay worm and with a good hot layer of sand under it your all set... just leave a 2foot by 2foot for the pit run stones around the stove and on the the foam mats.... easy to pull ash out... you could find flat stone to build a square pit by 2feet by 2 feet and 2 feet deep with sand in it.... this will stay supper dry and can have it above ground by 4in or more....
sand will let air travel and flat rock stops the air.... 2hour fire will keep that sand hot for hours once the fire goes out .. so you can build it out flat rocks .. like a wall with a wall within a wall.....and just add your foam mats .... its just beach sand you set in... so when you go to reuse the site its all set up... its just a sand box... so you can make it from stone with a bag of cement... pull the beach sand from rock wall you made insert your foam mats and your all set... and pull them out when you leave... or they will rot from water and soil..
Let say your pad is made and you go in the winter.. pull the snow off and run a big fire in the pit to dry it out...
so a bag of cement to seal up water intake or wood....
like dig pit mix cement and plaster on the dirt wall so the foam mat can set in correctly and the water diverts around the sand box and your tent can sit on it correctly .... its not hard to dig a 2 foot trench with a small bag cement and would be faster then shopping wood logs that you need to trim but would work... the tent has no bottom so you can work at it in the tent..
@@SignalOutdoors i would get an ice fishing tent they have outer bottoms sleeve on it to air tight the tent flooring you can add snow on it or sand... This would help keep the thermal sand box from air venting its heat out... and with simple tarp and foam mats your sand box will get supper hot and trap the heat in.... the tarp would prevent moisture to enter the foam mats just cut hole for fire pit area.... get up in the morning and the floor is still worm...
@@SignalOutdoors even with 2foot by 2foot fire pit i would defiantly try to insulate the its base ....a simple wood board box to prevent rock to rock heat exchange....fire can store heat energy at 400 degrees Fahrenheit .... like if you sunk an 8 by 8 board 3 feet deep or like i said logs and pine needles.... to stop the rock to rock heat transfer as its bottom and sides then sand... or even 2 feet the same size as the foam floor mat square ... anyway if you had to survive the winter you simply build a log pit and fill it with sand from a river.... tarp or tent
at 3 feet deep and -50c its cold even your floor wont last that long but without it you would freeze by running out of wood
you get 2 hours per bucket of wood.
That's 6 buckets of wood if temps hit -50 just for one day night....
-10 would need 3 buckets
0 would need 2 buckets
10+ 1 bucket
An you would need to scavenge for the wood and its wet... so you would need 2 feet by feet rock pad next to the pit to dry your wood so the fire pit would be 2feet by 4feet and flat stone area to dry it..
Awesome video subscribed!!!
Thanks man!
Sweet bro but no test of it!?
I have a couple test videos in my video uploads. Recently I started messing with converting the stove into a pellet burning stove. I have a video of that test as well. Thanks for watching. 🤙
I’m going to watch a tap drip! It’s less boring.
So are you saying you didn't like, subscribe or hit the bell notification? 🤣
How do you vent the smoke from the tent
I don't show it in this video but there's the stove pipe that goes out through the tent wall.
It's great a build a tent stove with a paint can like this. Do you think this stove can stock 2meters of truncated chimney? My idea is to have a compact stove that can contain everything inside. :)
I think it might be tricky to fit the chimney inside stove for storage. It might be possible if you went with a rolled titanium chimney. Thanks for watching! 🤙
@@SignalOutdoors beside the high price, rolled titanium chimney is a good option :) You are welcome!
I'm going to the hardware store tomorrow to pick up a paint can and all the fixins. Is there anything else I should add to the list that isn't mentioned here?
The only thing I'd add is that if you have the choice between steel or aluminum rivets go with the steel rivets.
@@SignalOutdoors Thanks
Your stove is cool, but it needs ti be longer. about twic as long. You are going to have to feed it all night long. If it is longer you can put longer wood in it so it takes longer to burn.
Yeah I'd have to agree. The biggest pain with this stove is the wood prep. It's twice as much work as a regular stove. Dave over at "Dave's Real Survival" did just what you mention. Here's the video: th-cam.com/video/AAEJI1ZJh5Y/w-d-xo.html
How much heat will rivets handle?
Great question, I used aluminum rivets on this stove. Aluminums melting point is about 1200F. Given these rivets aren't under any real tension it should be fine. Aluminum will start to loose strength at 600F. In hindsight I should have used steel rivets. Take care 🤙
Should of used steel or stainless rivets ..neat stove though
You need heavier material than chicken wire. I would have made long slits in that plate and used it as the wood rest.
If you're looking to prevent burnout absolutely. I was just looking for better airflow during the stove start up. Thanks for watching! 🤙
Chicken wire wont last long. Try hardware cloth. Good build tho
Ok good to know. I'll check that out. Thanks for watching. 🤙
Anytime!
Where did you get the elbow pipe?
I got it at Home Depot. Back by the furnace ducting I think.
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Oh hi Jaxson. Love you too buddy.
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Brilliant or idiotic??? Left handed is what it is!! Good tent heater but not good for heating food on. Dollar store trivet or wire basket works good for keeping wood off bottom. Sand works well also
That sums it up nicely. 😆
Sorry bruh.... I’m not as enthusiastic about this video as other commenters, I’m hearing the word “hopefully” way to often. I believe ya prolly shoulda done some trial and error builds before making a video. Good result, but not such a good path getting to that result.
Fair enough, thanks for watching.
I've seen many examples of these portable tent stoves but unless its for a weekender in the south most seem barely capable of heating a old school phone booth or boiling anything beyond a small pot of water nor will they last very long.