Make Your Own Hobo Stove

[Matthew]

Something along the lines of this, just excuse the crude quick cad drawing.

[LennyJ1]

Love the spike on the bottom

[RedLeader]

We always bring firelogs broken into chunks to burn in the hobo if there wont be any wood about (like on a mountain). On Saturday night Matt had a log cut into 3 sections rather than into small chunks and it definitely burned longer so it's defo a better idea, plus easier.
We reckoned in low wind one log lasted about 2 hours.

[Oisín]

Are you sure you got these in Poundstretcher? I was in there at lunch and could only see the typical bowl shaped ones.

Maybe Ballymena has none in stock?

[RedLeader]

I got mine in Ikea.

[cerbera147]

I got mine in Ikea as well.

I read on other forums Poundstretchers and Dunelm Mill. There is a Dunelm Mill in the Alban Retail Park where B&Q used to be.

[Oisín]

I see. Think I read on this post someone got it from poundstretcher.

I read on other forums Poundstretchers and Dunelm Mill. There is a Dunelm Mill in the Alban Retail Park where B&Q used to be.

I know where thats at. Just a bit far a walk to manage there and back during my lunch break. 

[Matthew]

I got mine in Poundstretcher Bangor. Isle two, five metres from the back wall.

[Kayakgirl]

Matthew have you got a grid ref for that?

[Matthew]

Matthew have you got a grid ref for that?

I will go one better lat and long   54.654803,-5.69728


well  I set about a bit of stove desig after talking with Jonno and it looks like I am going for a wood gas stove.

According to Google the following blurb should explain things, Certain stove designs are in effect a gasifier working on the updraft principle - the air passes up through the fuel, which can be a column of rice husks, and is combusted, then reduced to carbon monoxide by the residual char on the surface. The resulting gas is then burnt by heated secondary air coming up a concentric tube. Such a device behaves very much like a gas stove.
An alternative stove based on the downdraft principle and typically built with nested cylinders also provides high efficiency. Combustion from the top creates a gasification zone with the gas escaping downwards through ports located at the base of the burner chamber. The gas mixes with additional incoming air to provide a secondary burn. Most of the CO produced by gasification is oxidized to CO2 in the secondary combustion cycle, therefore gasification stoves carry lower health risks than conventional cooking fires.
This photo should help to explain.

Anyway some photos








Matthew

[RedLeader]

Can't wait to see this bad boy in action. I've been interested in wood gasification stoves for a while (who wouldn't!) but haven't seen one in action.

[Spud]

Can't wait to see this bad boy in action. I've been interested in wood gasification stoves for a while (who wouldn't!) but haven't seen one in action.

i agree, that looks like a hobo stove and a half!!

[Kayakgirl]

Are you taking orders to pimp our hobo stoves?

[ChuckMcB]

How about air holes on just one 'side' of the unit so you can regulate the flame by twisting the holes into our out of the wind?

[Matthew]

Are you taking orders to pimp our hobo stoves?

No no it is purely an exercise to keep me busy. I am going for the Pimp my fire steel next week.

How about air holes on just one 'side' of the unit so you can regulate the flame by twisting the holes into our out of the wind?

ooh there is a good idea, perhaps an addition. I will see what I can come up with