[Closed] Really stupid question about getting a wood burning stove in a car

Shall we just this out of the way then you can get some sensible answers...

How on earth are you going to get it to blow through the vents?
How cold does it get when you drive?
etc.,

I really should consider my thread titles a bit more 🙂

How cold does it get when you drive?

Quite warm at the moment, but OP can just turn the temp down so it blows cool air out.

Many people weigh more than that, you will be fine.

Equivalent to one fat passenger.

Delivered a lump of green oak of nearly the same weight to a friend. Kept it in the boot area as didn't fancy it on top of the folded down seats. Just over and ahead of the rear axle. Seats up to keep it in place, not that it was likely to move.

There will probably be bits that are removable, so take them off first.
Ours has a door, inside plates, top flue plate and bars all removable, there's 20kg there.

Stick it in the boot like any normal person.
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Surely 128kg isn't much heavier than a prop forward and they travel by car.

Ok, thanks. Did say it was stupid; just the lack of spread of the load (like, say, a fat arse) made me wonder.

I brought home a 7kw stove and 10packs of engineered oak flooring in my apparently crappy french car....

I didnt realise there were cars out there that would struggle with this.

Same crappy french car brougt home an lt85 gear box and a 3.5litre v8 engine from a land rover, in one trip and a 200tdi diesel engine on the next trip without batting an eyelid.

Might be more concerned if i was carrying this stuff on a daily basis for long distances.

Is it going to be on a pallet?

The chap who installed mine said you can remove about half the weight, just leaving the shell.

Equivalent to one fat passenger

..... In the boot.

So just think of it as being like any other abduction or hostage taking. Pack plenty of gaffa tape, zip ties, a video camera and a list of demands and you'll be fine

128kg, that's a baby stove, about 20 stone, you could easily have 5 x 15 stone bloaters in your car.

I'm a bit worried now. Guy I'm buying it off just rang me. He's getting 3 lads to help it into the car. 😯

I was hoping on just grabbing a neighbour to help me get it into the house when I got here.

Edit: Funnily enough you'd approve Twinw4ll, plus your hunky manliness would help - it's a contura 😀

Many years ago me and my FiL picked up a stove in the back of his Escort van.

The encouraging words by the chap who fork lifted it in were [I]"Careful on the brakes lads, if that come forward it will ####ing kill you".[/I]

He's getting 3 lads to help it into the car.

Might be really weak lads.

Yup, I'm concerned now. Pleased with purchase but not sure how to get it out of the car and into the house. Cock.

If anyone is near J27 of M62 and built like a brick shithouse, please drop me an email!

3 of us lifted my stove out easily. Had some decking planks as an emergency ramp resting against the rear sill of the car, but didn't need it.

IIRC we took the bricks out and cut it free from the pallet before lifting it.

Has your car got a flat load bay, or will you need to lift it over a lip? Once it is out it will be easy to shift.

Just had one fitted but awaiting commissioning. Very STW'd up now as got the T5, steel inbred and stove. I could be a little behind the times....

2 of us lifted the stove on and we're not'necks' by any stretch of the imagination. Just take it easy n you'll be fine.

take all the bits off you can as grate doors etc weigh a fair bit

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Just get the 3 guys to lift it in there.... then leave it in there. Bit a of plumbing and bingo - [url= http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.html ]wood gas powered car[/url]

Years and years ago I was down visiting some friend in bristol and for reasons I can't remember one of them gave me an old compressor. We manhandled it into the back of my old Mk1 Polo - it wasn't that big but was very old and very heavily built - proper belt driven thing with flywheel and all sorts and a big spiral of copper pipe leading into the tank.

Got it back to Scotland and couldn't get the bloody thing out. I had a day job at the time and when I went to my workshop at the weekend a) theres was nobody about and b) the workshop was on the 3rd floor of a big old victorian warehouse, so even if I could have got it out of the car I wouldn't have been able to get up the 5 flights of fire escape steps.

I ended up leaving it in there for about 3 months - long enough for someone at work to seriously ask me if it was a still and I was brewing my own road fuel.

When I finally did get out and up the stairs I plugged it in and.... it was shit. A compressor with asthma. It couldn't even blow up a balloon.

My Irish solicitor pal left a beer barrel in the back of his Mazda while he was inside Wetherby Magistrate's Court defending a colleague on a speeding charge. What made it worse was that the car door lock was broken and, rushing because he was late, he managed to leave the keys in the ignition and the engine running then lock the door by holding the handle up. The court was cleared while the bomb scare was sorted and when they re-convened everybody was laughing at my pal and his colleague got off. He never really lived that one down.

Well it's in the [s]pit[/s] house. Pleased with stove, but holes in the vermiculite boards. £90??!

Can I just buy some board and cut it to shape using the old ones as a template?

YES!

you can get vermiculite fireboard around £50 a sheet on the bay

cut with a sharp panel saw - We got 4 sets of boards out of a sheet (12 in total) for aroudn the same cost as 1 single board from supplier!

Nice 🙂 Cheers.

Which Contura did you get Bear? if the bricks are shaped then i would get the correct ones for the job, £90 but should last 5 years plus if looked after.

Seems simple to me.

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Hi Twinw4ll - It's a 51L, paid £400 for it and it's in great nick. Well chuffed. Just spoke to the seller (nice bloke) and it seems they are air flow ports, so looks like they've just perished on the left, which I'll patch up with fire cement and see how it goes.

Does that seem sensible?

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