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In a previous article, Terry Spragg said:
Paul Tomblin wrote: I very much doubt that there are any canoers or kayakers who've put wood stoves in their boats, so I fail to see why you included rec.boats.paddle.touring in your posting. If charcoal burning hand warmers are not wood heaters, perhaps you'd prefer a New Found Land and Labrador wooden stove? "Gives good heat, can burn for 24 hours, b'y. Replacement stoves, cheap." You can't have your kayak and heat it too. -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ Quality Control, n.: The process of testing one out of every 1,000 units coming off a production line to make sure that at least one out of 100 works. |
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:31:29 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote: In a previous article, Terry Spragg said: Paul Tomblin wrote: I very much doubt that there are any canoers or kayakers who've put wood stoves in their boats, so I fail to see why you included rec.boats.paddle.touring in your posting..... You can't have your kayak and heat it too. Good one! Brian Whatcott Altus, OK |
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Terry Spragg wrote:
As well, pellet stoves can burn small wood efficiently, with forced draught. The best pellets are made from waste from flooring and cabinet scraps. The ash all goes up the pipe. Haven't seen any small pellet stoves, though. Hi Terry, We don't want to be thinking too far ashore about a boat woodstove. Even if a pellet unit of tiny size could be fabbed it would require the complexities of an automated feed auger, electricity-hungry draught blower, increased maintenance, lower overall reliability, and be restriced to a very limited type & sources of fuel. Pellets are also easy to get wet in a marine environment & hard to dry out if they do. BTW a small shoreside stove of uncoated CI will grow rust aboard a boat faster than crabs in a Carribean whorehouse, and must be continually maintained & recoated with stove paint, which is a PITA. Someone with vision & some capital needs to start spec-ing/subbing overseas & selling a tiny porcelain-coated well-fitted cast iron woodstove that is well thought-out for versatility & simplicity at a cheap price. They would sell thousands of them and make a killing, especially if they may be exempted from the ridiculous new US EPA woodstove emission requirements (and their equivalents elsewhere) as the new and inferior copies of the insultingly overpriced Lunenbergs appear to be. Those guys need some serious competition, and many people would want one ashore in small spaces as well. A lot of excellent CI goods are produced cheaply in Taiwan (along with some very crappy iron too), as long as the importer specifies good stuff; my Powermatic tablesaw is Taiwanese CI, and they are still recycling all the ships we've scrapped there. I am willing to jump into this project if anyone has the capital and cajones to do it. |
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Who ever wants this nonsense has obviously never had to split several cords of wood for the winter fuel, never had to haul the ashes afterwards. Same can be said for coal. Been there, done that, will never do it again. If you truly want to get info on wood and/or coal fired stoves, the Lehman Hdwe, Kidron, Ohio is the place. Why, because Kidron is the center of a major Amish population. Lew |
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:31:29 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote: In a previous article, Terry Spragg said: Paul Tomblin wrote: I very much doubt that there are any canoers or kayakers who've put wood stoves in their boats, so I fail to see why you included rec.boats.paddle.touring in your posting. If charcoal burning hand warmers are not wood heaters, perhaps you'd prefer a New Found Land and Labrador wooden stove? "Gives good heat, can burn for 24 hours, b'y. Replacement stoves, cheap." You can't have your kayak and heat it too. Thank you. I've always loved that joke. Cyli r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels. Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. http://www.visi.com/~cyli email: lid (strip the .invalid to email) |
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This is the third time I have tried to say this and if it does not go
through then I'll deep six this site. There is a solid fuel heater NEWPORT by Dickinson. It looks like any other propane or diesel heater bulkhead mounted. I have one and use sterno which works fine. A friend has one and uses selfstarting charcoal to start cannel coal, which is a fireplace coal. We only haul our boats for maintenance and need some BTU's in the winter months. |
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Gogarty wrote:
We eventually settled on a mix of real charcoal (avoid briquettes like the plague -- what's in those things anyway?) and pea size anthracite coal. We had to install a fan on the front of the ash drawer to provide a forced draft to keep the coal burning. Try larger coal - less draught restriction - and always coal that is rounded not broken & flattened in shape (same reason & getting harder to find). Either way it sounds like a dangerous idea; coal gas with the inadequate natural draught from a short boat stack offers deadly possiblitites. |
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