The snow ultralight blower stove illuminated by the little LED light when mounted on a bush pole high above the snow surface. the bush pole has been driven into deep snow.

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A wood-fired Snow ultralight blower stove may have considerable appeal to those few people, like me, who enjoy this environment. Added to this, many of our Australian alpine areas have abundant standing fuel sticks on snow gums that have been ravaged by our all too frequent bushfires. Making a fireRead More →

Whisky top burner with riser (~9 g), with small clean concentrated flame.

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Backup alcohol burner A ~9g ‘whisky top’ backup alcohol burner is described. It can be used as an alternative ultralight way of cooking, on wood-burning stoves, when it must be used inside a tent in bad weather. Introduction This article is about a compact backup alcohol burners to use in myRead More →

Blower stove power supplies from left to right: 4*AA battery box with switch and three cable voltage splitter, Aldi solar USB power pack with charge/discharge controller and removable 18650 lithium ion battery in a USB charge/discharge controller power pack.

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Power Supply Various ~5 V DC power supplies for ultralight blower stove are considered with regard to; convenience, efficiency, versatility, rechargeability, backup power and safety issues. The 18650 lithium-ion battery is my preferred battery and it packs so nicely amongst stove components. The blower unit and the little lighting moduleRead More →

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Ultralight Blower Stove Article, Story of the Development. This is my story of the development of an ultralight blower stove to provide controlled heat for cooking outside. They use long damp fuel sticks that I so often encounter while walking and skiing in alpine areas in both summer and winter.Read More →

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A blower fan is described for use with an ultralight blower stove. It can make the stove very hot, clean and able to burn damp fuel sticks. Why use a blower fan? Because it turns a few sticks into a powerful clean source of heat. Hear the gentle roar inRead More →

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About me Hi, Welcome to my website. I am new to this so please forgive me if I make mistakes. I am Tim (or Timothy to my mother when I was caught being naughty). I live in my house that is nestled between two creeks. It is on a littleRead More →

"How to cook your dinner and burn your stove".' Destruction of burner using a large charge of wood charcoal plus a high air injection rate.

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Wood and charcoal combustion Charcoal burns much hotter than wood and in an ultralight blower stove, it can burn at damaging temperatures (~1,000+C) particularly when there is little or no wood in the fuel mix.  Understanding of these issues is key to the safe use of charcoal as an abundantRead More →

DIY fire starter strips from left to right; thin newspaper waxies, thick egg carton waxies and milk bottle flame drizzlers.

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Ultralight fire starter strips This post describes my tiny ultralight fire starter strips of newspaper and egg carton that are wax soaked and strips of plastic milk bottle that can be used as powerful, waterproof and versatile fire starters. Introduction. Over the years I have used a variety of ultralightRead More →

Starting a C-Ring Stove with wet green sticks for fuel.

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Stove Startup This is about the quick stove startup of blower stoves for fast backpacking cooking. Introduction “Stove startup, it’s a breeze if you make your own breeze.” At the outset, it is critical to understand that a well-managed blower stove will happily burn small bush sticks with a wide rangeRead More →