Thoughts on these? Do any of you use one? I'm thinking of making the switch from a canister stove to a biostove. I hate using disposable items and it annoys me that I'm not utilising the biomatter which is all around me. If I was to get one I would probably just get the solo stove titan with the 1.8l pot and stop using my 1.5l pot. This will add about 500g or a bit over a pound of weight to my kit the benefit being that I never need to get new cannisters. It will last forever. I know it's a lot cheaper to just make one but I can't be fricked so ignore that.
I use the ohuhu, or whatever the frick that chink brand name is. Almost identical to the one in your picture.
They are great for overnight trips OP, but I would always use a gas canister for anything longer than that. Nobody wants to wait 10-15 minutes to boil water for a coffee in the morning.
what are you going to do if all the fuel around is wet? or if its too windy?
the entire concept breaks down if its cold or windy or wet
there is always something dry around, the fire is protected by the walls
how does the cold break the system down wtf please elaborate
I'm all for using fire for whatever but you have to be reasonable. If there's dry wood or buffalo chips around, awesome. I always thought I was the fire king and could build a fire no matter what, but there have been a few times when I really no shit needed to build a fire and struggled because everything was wet. If you don't believe this can happen you don't go PrepHole enough. But by now you've ordered the stove, so as soon as you get it go to the nearest place that resembles actual nature and fire it up. Post your results.
I like to collect dead lower branches from spruce trees. They stay dry during heavy rain and you can easily find them even if the ground is covered in snow.
something is always dry, bark, leaves, there is always something
Ok, then where the frick do I find dry fuel here?
This is my terrain, the arctic tundra, no fricking trees, just marshes and rocks.
Climate is pretty arid, but last few years we've had quite a bit of rain, and when it rains here, nothing is dry, nothing.
It's obviously not a good choice for this kind of terrain. Many PrepHole in the woods where this is very useful for long term.
Find a better biome son
No, I love my area.
There's no place on earth I would rather live.
I have the tundra in the high lands, the taiga in the low lands and one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, then of course some nice birch woods spread here and there.
Cold but stable winters, warm but not too hot summers, and of course the midnight sun in the summer and aurora borealis in the winter.
It's also a Black person free zone.
>It's also a Black person free zone
That's everywhere outside of cities in my country.
Are you a fellow alaskan?
Find a standing dead tree. As perfectly vertical as possible. This limits water/snow/ice staying omn and soaking into it. Cut it and split it up. The wood inside should be perfectly dry.
This is the only thing that works in the spring in the high country. When six feet of snow finally melts, everything that was covered in snow including low dead branches will be wet. Of course you'll need a saw or axe to get to that dry wood. If I'm not in danger of freezing to death, i.e., I just want to cook my food, I'll bust out a backpacking stove.
The irony is I live in California, so there's plenty of dry fuel everywhere year round BUT these types of stoves are specifically banned because they are technically a "campfire" and those are not allowed anywhere except established campgrounds with firepits
But if it isn't produce too much smoke and you're off trail who will know
They definitely produce enough smoke to be seen even under ideal conditions. And they produce a smoke smell, and there are random government officials patrolling all the time. It just takes one unlucky day to catch a huge charge
Once going they don't really produce smoke. California sounds like hell man how are there that many people patrolling. In Australia you could easily kill a person on a marked trail, carry the body 100m into the scrub, spend the next 12 hours processing the body, then dispose of the body, and no one would ever see you do it.
It's not just government people patrolling. Anyone who sees or smells smoke might call the police. We've been trained to report all fires. Emergency services get called when people light charcoal grills in public parks with designated grilling spots. Police still come around to see what you're doing. It's only going to get worse because climate change and the drought means this state is just going to keep burning
just carry a little bit of petty with you in a small vial for when shit is wet
it's good for buck yard toy
but in the outdoor situation, no chance for my option.
cuz need to prepare small piece of well dried wood or it getting choked soon and smoky af.
and need to supply fire wood at appropriate timing.
take time for get stable fire, and for result either.
bottom of gear will covered with sticky shiny tar may contain some ground stuff
There are plenty of videos of people using them in the field. It takes 5-10 minutes to prepare the sticks.
starving piece of shit...i can eat the frick out of this in my 1994 airstream hatch with a couple of simple mods:
- 10 point cage with deer rack
- 3 piece discontinued JoJo cooktop
- spec-R full lift suspension
- Propane tank with 8 lines from tank to grill
- 1 044 bosch olive oil pump
- 1200 rc flavor injectors
- golden eagle sleeved chopping block
- copper 10:1 piston pans
- Eagle stir rods
- arp head chef
- oem h22 bagelgasket
- Bread shaft undelete
- competition oven knobs twin disc
- Port and polished stovetop
- skunk2 door springs and retainers
- Str spam gears
- crower stage 1 pans
- aluminium fume hood with slim fan
- gsr rotisserie with itr lsd.
- qsd h2k grill exhaust manifold adapter
- k20 rbc grill manifold
- qsd flame broiled body spacer
- blox 70mm propane throttle body
- 4bar omni Sam's Club location map
- 6al msd with coil and cap for grill. 3 step ignition control
- hks propane bov
- Garret 102mm blender.
- Custom t4 front facing blender manifold with 44mm flange
- 44mm tial wastewatergate
- Custom air to water interheater set up
- aem eugo butane wideband w/ gauge
- tuned on chipped coleman chef-pro
- 13 inch volks drag handles
- 2 15 inch volks rear drag handles
- arp extended grill wheel studs
- Cuisinart cluster
- 150 shots of espresso
im making 348,000,000 calories to the STOMACH because thats the only place the power should ever be