Author Topic: Another self-made heater (Read 5189 times)

Huntrap_MT · « **on:** August 28, 2003, 03:57:19 PM »

Take a coffee can and cut an opening out of the bottom about 1.5x3" for feeding twigs and grass etc. into. Take a pointed bottle opener and punch holes all around the top of the can for letting smoke escape. With the addition of tinfoil over the upside down can, you can fry food directly on it. Take some tinfoil and wrap waterproof matches and dry kindling inside of it to keep dry, then stow this inside. Stash this little stove along your trapline or strategic places in your hunting grounds and you'll be happy when you need to stop and boil a pot of tea, fry some food, or just warm your hands. I have many of these stashed out there so that I can usually keep comfortable even in the winter and they could even save your life! Best of all they cost NOTHING!

grizzy57 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 29, 2003, 02:46:51 AM »

I HAVE USED A COFFEE CAN STOVE LIKE THIS FOR YEARS ONLY DIFFERENCE IS I USE A CAN OF STERNO AND IT WILL LAST FOR EVER, AND
NEVER FAIL TO LIGHT EASY TO CARRY.I USE A CAN WITH A PLASTIC LID
AND YOU CAN HID IT ANYPLACE.AND IT WILL STAY DRY.
GRIZZY

Huntrap_MT · « **Reply #2 on:** August 29, 2003, 07:18:45 PM »

grizzy, do you just put a can of Sterno underneath? Does it even produce enought heat to cook on? I have never used Sterno before, is it expensive? Twigs, grass, and leaves are free you know! :wink:

grizzy57 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 30, 2003, 12:46:34 AM »

MT

STERNO IS NOT EXPENSIVE BUY IT AT WAL-MART I USE A COFFEE CAN
WITH THE PLASTIC LID NO HOLES NEEDED IT WILL GET VERY HOT!!!
BECAREFUL IT WILL BURN YOUR FINGERS ..I HAVE NEVER TRIED TO COOK OVER IT BUT THEY MAKE A SMALL STOVE FOR IT THAT WILL FOLD UP(SMALL) AND THE STERNO CANS ARE SMALL ALSO . IT IS JUST A FEW DOLLARS YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE IT.TRY IT, STERNO HAS BEEN AROUND TIME.
GRIZZY

maddmaxx · « **Reply #4 on:** July 25, 2004, 04:21:16 PM »

If you save coals from your last fire, it makes a good heat source, and if you make charcoal out of willow or elder, you can light it w/a match. Gets the rest going faster.

Ol' Man Mountain · « **Reply #5 on:** September 22, 2004, 04:50:27 AM »

Keep an empty two-pound coffee can with the plastic lid for a seal.
Take one new roll of toilet paper place it inside the coffee can and soak it good with pure alcohol (yup, shine 'll work too).
The next time you're out in the wilds and need some quick heat for warmth or cookin' simply light 'er up. Be careful though, because when the alcohol is burning it's impossible to see the flame.
Last for days. To put it out just snap the lid back on and the flame is smothered when the air is cut off.

Deadeye47 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2004, 08:36:58 AM »

Pine knot makes a good fire starter to store in the little stove too. Chop off some chips off a old dead pine tree ...the part below the ground...it's hard sappy stuff...burns like turpentine though...

alpini · « **Reply #7 on:** September 25, 2004, 05:59:53 AM »

I made one from a round altoid tin. I soaked a strip of corugated cardboard in parafin wax and rolled the strip to fit into the tin and added a couple of wicks.
It makes a good compact stove/fuel for emergency use. I put one in my pack. I like the sappy pine knot idea, I'll have to keep my eyes open for some.

powderman · « **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2004, 05:05:58 PM »

We used to make a candle of sorts using an old empty tuna can filled with cardboard in strips wide enough to fit in the can and poured full of melted candlewax or paraffin, can't remember what the wick was though. I never cooked with it, but remember that some said they did. POWDERMAN.

DanielWGriggs · « **Reply #9 on:** September 29, 2004, 12:17:51 PM »

Tuna can with a pet food resealable cover to boil water in. for fire starters I use sawdust poured into a cardboard egg carton with old candle wax melted and poured over it. it soaks the cardboard and sawdust and is easy to light can be cut and seperated easily. a 1lb coffee can cut and punched as above. In the tuna can I keep boullion cubes chicken and beef also tea bags matches,hooks,ect

jhalcott · « **Reply #10 on:** October 17, 2004, 01:46:05 PM »

I use the tuna can heater to cook (toast) a sandwich while hunting. I saw them made years ago and thought it was a lost art.The wick is just the card board soaked with wax. I keep one in my truck and 1 in my pack for emergencies.I use the can top as a baffle to regulate how much heat I get.

Jack Ryan · « **Reply #11 on:** March 04, 2006, 11:22:40 PM »

All kinds of wood gas stoves from small heaters to cooking.
http://journeytoforever.org/at_woodfire.html#woodgasstoves