Blower stove with blowback protection for use when the stove is being used with periodically pulsed voltage to save battery power while cooking. Blower assembly with; push button on/off switch, improved slide shutter covering air intake and long air tube and elbow that is cradled in the vented conical air input port. The fan switch is off, the fan air intake is closed and the wind blown smoke and hot gas blowback is vented harmlessly as a small flame over the vent instead of blowing back through the blower assembly and damaging the plastic fan body.

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Introduction The ultralight blower stove has excessive power for most cooking needs because it has been geared to burning damp Gippsland sticks. I discuss various practical ways to reduce the fans air output by using choking, lower voltages and fan pulsing. This is in order to have; an option forRead More →

Student Stove with two large cut outs in the burner wall.

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A cheap ultralight blower stove The ‘Student’ ultralight blower stove is designed to be light, cheap and simple and is made from a 425g tuna tin, to match the skimpy budget of a student. If used with care it will have a short but useful life. Students can afford tunaRead More →

Ultralight 'Bell Tent' a roomy shelter with the comfort of central heating with an ultralight wood stove.

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This DIY silnylon bell tent can be pitched high for luxury comfort or low for strong wind survival.Read More →

Ultralight tent stove on a bush pole above the snow.

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Ultralight Tent Stove-for Alpine Camping Part 3 Safe and effective use This post is the third in a four-part series on my efforts to design a truly ultralight tent stove. My aim was to efficiently and cleanly provide cooking and warmth from a small number of bush sticks to enhanceRead More →

Boiling water in two big pots with plenty of heat to spare. The flame is controlled by wing wall. Gas combustion is completed outside of the main burn chamber.

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A backpacking wood stove with a blower-An overview  “designed to burn damp or wet wood” Amongst my ultralight wood-fired blower stove, there is a stove for everyone in the range; from large to small, single to double pot, ultralight rollup to non-roll-up, DIY budget student stoves, base camp stoves and evenRead More →

An ultralight alpine woodshed for keeping a little 'stach' of dry fuel sticks for your next visit.. It is sewn Tyvek with zip down one side

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Ultralight backpacking woodshed for stashing dry fuel This post describes an ultralight backpacking woodshed sewn from Tyvek to store and manage dry fuel sticks for snow camping. Introduction to an ultralight backpacking woodshed If you are like me you probably enjoy your alpine areas smothered with snow for skiing, butRead More →

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Blower stove safety warning This describes the safety warnings for using a blower stove. These small wood-burning cooking stoves are designed for outdoor cooking, using very small quantities of dead tree sticks. By design, only a small portion of the loaded fuel sticks will be burning at any time. TheRead More →

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Blower stove instructions- parts, assembly, starting and running This is my blower stove instructions for assembly, starting, running and idling. Introduction For all my blower Stoves of different shapes and sizes can be easily started by a simple but systematic starting procedure to get the stove burning quickly. Getting theRead More →