That portable wood burner….(pics)

Hat-tip to ski for the recommendation, I ordered one through World of Camping on eBay on Monday night having missed out on a local s/h eBay auction for one. It arrived first thing Wednesday morning.

Id already fitted the high temp silicone flashing to the workshop roof:

Out of the box it’s got a good feel to it. Not heavy cast plate, but 2-3mm laser cut steel. Excellent tolerances – no gaping holes or misaligned doors or panels. Weighs about 10Kg.

Nice little touches like a spring ball on the leg locking pins.

Set it up on a plinth to give me a bit of height. It’s only 500mm from base to stove top. The legs are zipped tied down and the grids are screwed down to those hefty oak bearers I had lying around.

Flue’s pieces are swaged and go together well.

Get a good burn on quickly – doesnt like to tick over with a large log in their, really prefers smaller pieces but it can be run a bit slower than afterburner setting. The relatively thin stove top gets the heat through to the pan quickly and boiled a trangia kettle in <6mins. It’s going to come in use on some camping/forestry trips in the near future thanks to another very recent acquisition which I’ll post about another day 😉

Snug as a bug in the workshop now. The missus wont see me till hibernation is over…

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:

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 Flue section

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.

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:

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