All you need is a tin with a lid,cardboard and candle wax. Cut the cardboard to fit the tin to the height of the tin and length rolled up. Then heat some candle wax and fill the tin. Then light the stove to get the wax to settle and to char the top of the cardboard which makes it easy to light in the field. The lid is used to extiguish the flame when your finished cooking. How long the stove lasts depends on how big the tin is,ive cooked on mind and boiled water over a dozen times before refilling it but i think i could have used it a few more time before it needed a re-fill. Here im using it on a day hike to boil my water for a coffee.. Here i was using three tent pegs to support the billycan.
Thanks sticks65. Great post. There are several people I know (me included) who greatly benefit from the photos. Hope you have more useful information to share with us.
Thank you. I too am one of those who benefit from photos,they say a picture is worth a thousand words and i believe that to be true. And ill try my best.
More great stuff. I think we might want to create a Bushcraft forum to house what I can see might be a lengthy collection of great tutorials and how to's on primitive skills and improvisation. I may create a few of these stoves this weekend.
Hey guy, I am really enjoying these threads. Makes me want to dust off my kit and head back into the woods myself. Please keep it up. K
Yikes! . I can only begin so many new projects at one time (and all that you've shared thus-far is pretty cool, gotta' try it kind of stuff). Thanks for sharing!
Got to be the best idea I have seen for a long time. Talk about a compact no mess stove and I bet it fires up realy quickly.
I don't like using matches so i use my ferro rod with a little birch bark and just throw that on the stove to light it.
Will the charred top of that that buddy burner catch a spark? You Guys got me feeling all "bushcrafty" ( longing for the a spring woods)...
No,I keep a piece of birch bark with this and just get the bark going with my ferro rod and put it on top of the stove which lights it well enough.
For a light backpacking stove, try the Pepsi G alcohol stove: http://www.caseyandemily.com/Backpack/2005/2005_06_PotStandWindscreen/PepsiGInstructions.pdf
