[Closed] That portable wood burner....(pics)

I'm having myself one of those 🙂

Cheers, that's me £140 worse off 🙂

Im still blaming ski. I had no idea such things of goodliness existed until he piped up. 🙂

That's epic! Also you're shed is nicer than my house 😆 Good work!

but does in integrate........

Shed envy - tick
Stove envy - tick (bookmarked for when i get a new man cave as part of Project Downsizing 🙂

but - one is perplexed - why not simply put the oak in the same place the grates are, rest stove on and do away with the grates?

because I'm expecting to kick it/bump into it (it is next to my workshop bench) and wanted to make it more substantial as the stove doesn't weigh a lot. those bearers are 20kg each so I have some ballast now. and its all screwed together to make it one. I couldn't do that without the grids

oooooooooo I do like that, might have to get me one of those for the Garage/camping trips at some point

I think it needs a pulley maiden clothes drying thing up in the rafters above the stove.

Like this:
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For drying off biking clothes and other damp fabric items.

Extra marks for using zip ties as a safety feature on a fire!

Glad your pleased with it Stoner, will be a handy heat source for your camper awning too.

How many buildingd have you got, last pics if i remember were of your woodshed/ workshop!
Whats the top cowl made of looks very plasticy, nice secondary source of heat from the chimney pipe

Looks like just what I need for the cave.

There's a bike shed (12'x12') and camping kit store, and on the side of that is a pellet store (which was a wood store), Ive put a smallish (6'x 12') covered log store at the bottom of the field. And this is now my workshop. But we dont have a traditional garage so storage is spread around a bit.

I hope you've blacked out silhouettes for all your tools on that board.

Shed envy - tick
Stove envy - tick (bookmarked for when i get a new man cave as part of Project Downsizing

"Life envy" would have done.....

I hope you've blacked out silhouettes for all your tools on that board.

Almost did, but remembered I like to re-jig things every now and then and so any markings would be obsolete 😉

Its far too neat and tidy.
Only thing missing is a nice comfy chair with a plump fabric cushion. pipe and slippers optional.

The door needs a lovely coat of wood paint, sea grass or eau de nil maybe 😉

Friend of ours has one of those for when we go camping. Pretty cool but the paint did come off a bit.

I don't like the metal grids though. Should have put the wood the other way round (front and back) and then got some smaller cross section pieces and notched them into the large pieces as cross members.

oh and have shed envy too - if only I could find something like that I could actually make a proper go of this business I am trying to set up. 🙁

you get a nice manly thread and then along comes a box full of XX chromosomes wanting to accessorize and colourway it 🙄

I like!

I don't like the metal grids though

I shall work on ver 2.0 sometime then.

How much flue pipe did it come with?

I shall work on ver 2.0 sometime then.

Do you have a carbon monoxide alarm just in case?

Stoner - Member

you get a nice manly thread and then along comes a box full of XX chromosomes wanting to accessorize and colourway it

It also needs some pretty flower boxes and spring bulbs. Oh hang on that's mcmoonter's speciality.

br, click the pdf link here http://www.campingsolutions.co.uk/stoves/frontier-stove/

well he is an artist so virtually a girl 🙂

Now this is a new emotion that I have...garage envy! 🙂

Stoner

Ta, I'd definately need more, nearer 5m - like the idea though

Goes off to search for more flue...

They sell additional flue sections [url= http://www.worldofcamping.co.uk/frontier-portable-camping-wood-burning-stove-flue-section-104860 ]Flue section[/url]

Ordered one earlier, now need a new shed to put it in!

You can't see the flames though? Am I right. One of the things I love about my stove is the window.

Open the door then

now this look sideal to go into our little old utility room that is now a small lounge to heat it. I'm sure there are a whoe host of reasons why i cant use it, its has 3 eternal walls is it possible to use something like this or willit need aproper flu? Was thinking of adapting the chimney to vent out of wall

If you do it* in a house you MUST meet HETAS/Part J Building regs.

No half arsed shortcuts like Ive done in the workshop.

Flues arent all about "venting". They are necessary to form a draft through the fire. Even this portable one has a 2m flue to get the convection going.

If you have a chimney with an appropriate flue liner then use that, if not, budget £1000+ for an appropriate internal/external flue.

* and "it" isnt this stove TBH. It's not got enough thermal mass. It's probably not approved either.

s/h cast iron ones on eBay are your best bet, and a bit of time with a nylon drill brush and some heat proof paint.

Have you noticed if the pelleted fuel has started to go up, supply and demand.
Very attractive grants for converting to renewables at the momment and with an aging oil boiler sounds attractive

I'm liking the idea of a stove for the summerhouse/hula hut.

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Then use the summer sunloungers as winter day beds and get a Tilley lantern for all year round garden room tomfoolery

I think Stoners "Frontier" might take up a bit too much floor space to be a practical solution unless I can change the legs though... although being portable it would at least be easy to remove when not required.

those oak bearers are crying out for some nice tasteful horse brasses.

Loving the empty glass of red wine on the work bench.

A man after my own heart 🙂

peterfile - Member
Loving the empty glass of red wine on the work bench.

A man after my own heart

Surely that would be Hannibal Lecter... 😆

Messiah - See my previous thread for a small log burner build in a similar summerhouse to yours:

[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/diy-wood-burning-stove-help ]Linky[/url]

I think I am in love, just need to find out, who makes it?

😉

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Smartray - pelleted fuel is possibly about to become cheaper as there is a price war in the offing according to one supplier I spoke to recently.

Thanks for the link MrGrim that looks bang-on... although I think you do your summerhouse a dis-service by likening it to mine 😉

red wine

Homemade Damson & Elderberry wine I'll have you know 🙂

Pellet prices from my records:
Nov-10 5.4p/kWh (10Kg bagged Balcas Brite, Oirish)
Jan-11 5.4p/kWh (10Kg bagged Balcas Brite, Oirish)
Mar-11 5.6p/kWh (10Kg bagged Verdo, English)
Dec-11 5.8p/kWh (10Kg bagged Verdo, English)
Apr-12 4.8p/kWh (Loose blown Verdo, English)

(FYI - wet cord, once seasoned and dried is costing me about 2.3p/kWh)

The Verdo have proven to be better quality (less clinker) and possibly better net energy output but I havent allowed for that as I have no real means of measuring.

Cant really calculate price inflation as those are three different products up there so cant be compared.

It looks a similar size to yours Messiah and it should make a bit easier for you as I had network cabling, electrical sockets, telephone line and a fuse box to take into consideration. The basic principles are exactly the same though.

Ordered Friday & just arrived.

Stoner - did thefirst section of your flue slide in/out of the burner the burner easily?

Just want to add, when you are saying hetas installation and all that, I needed a stove and a flue putting in, easily something I could have done, but its a rental so needed paperwork, went with a major local company, oh my, the total bodge job they tried to pass on me, luckily though I knew what should be so, certificate does not mean comppetance. Just sayin!

Stoner - with your love of statistics why haven't you heat metered your system?

I now have 2 of these! The flue on the first didn't fit into the burner. I've been sent a replacement & they don't want the original back...

So, I have one for sale if anyone is interested?? Not much involved in getting the fault rectified