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Hey all
Tent size is 2 person with stove 11 ft across 7ft ish tall
For those who have some experience with a small hot teepee tent and have used a small tent stove to stay warm.
Can you share you experience with the small stove and how well it heated the tent and how long the heat lasted before it had to be restocked.
Looking at the small stainless units that are light and easy to carry for longer distances
Any advice and experience will be appreciated

Thanks
 
Well with all the different stove size and makes I’ve used over the years they don’t go long before they die, the one I use right now is a medium size ti stove made by four dogs and I’m lucky to get more and 3 hours! Smaller, especially if it is of the collapsible type, you will be lucky to get 2hrs, most likely 1.5hrs, the reason is those collapsible stove are not as air tight as a “ridgid” stove so they let more air seeping in and burn wood faster!

The way we use our stove is burn hot for a few hours before bed to dry stuff and warm up! Then put a last load of wood in as we go to bed then let die and relight in the morning if need be! We rely on our sleeping system to keep us warm during the night!
 
^^^^ Exactly........... I have a wall tent and a medium size wood stove. It'll crank the heat in the evening when you need it however if I stoke the stove before bed it will get too hot to sleep so I let my stove burn out and rely on my sleep system to keep me warm at night. Just have everything ready for a quick light up in the morning.
 
DGY said:
Well with all the different stove size and makes I’ve used over the years they don’t go long before they die, the one I use right now is a medium size ti stove made by four dogs and I’m lucky to get more and 3 hours! Smaller, especially if it is of the collapsible type, you will be lucky to get 2hrs, most likely 1.5hrs, the reason is those collapsible stove are not as air tight as a “ridgid” stove so they let more air seeping in and burn wood faster!

The way we use our stove is burn hot for a few hours before bed to dry stuff and warm up! Then put a last load of wood in as we go to bed then let die and relight in the morning if need be! We rely on our sleeping system to keep us warm during the night!
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This exactly.

Seek outside 4 or 6 man, with collapsible ti stove (large I believe), will usually get an hour to hour and a half burn without stuffing it right full and rely on sleep system. We prefer to sleep through so it's gonna go out eventually. One of us may light it up if we get up for a midnight leak depending on temps, but with a proper bag it's not necessary in fall. Usually use the 8 man with kni-co Alaskan in winter though, which provides a slightly longer burn. Doesn't take much to get it roasting in there and we've had to crack the door a bit to regulate. At -25 range one guy usually will get up to stoke it again. Get it warm and dry before going to sleep, just definitely make sure your bags are rated for colder than expected temps. I bring a warm puffy layer that gets stuffed in my bag while I sleep in winter (which is sized appropriately for the added space). This allows me to slip these on while still in my bag before getting up.
 
DGY said:
Well with all the different stove size and makes I’ve used over the years they don’t go long before they die, the one I use right now is a medium size ti stove made by four dogs and I’m lucky to get more and 3 hours! Smaller, especially if it is of the collapsible type, you will be lucky to get 2hrs, most likely 1.5hrs, the reason is those collapsible stove are not as air tight as a “ridgid” stove so they let more air seeping in and burn wood faster!

The way we use our stove is burn hot for a few hours before bed to dry stuff and warm up! Then put a last load of wood in as we go to bed then let die and relight in the morning if need be! We rely on our sleeping system to keep us warm during the night!
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always find a buddy with a not so good sleeping bag will help a lot for having someone feeding the woodstove ...
 
We used a small prospectors stove in the 17ft TeePee tent. So no coals in the morning.
If anyone got up in the night they generally rekindled the stove.
We keep an acetylene torch handy and that gets the fire going really fast.
We could have used a bigger stove like the 25gallon barrel stove we used to use in the 12 x 16 wall tent but it got too cumbersome
Also we like the fact that the prospector heats up the tent in the morning real fast and by the time we leave camp for the hunt, the stove is pretty much burnt out and minimizies a tent fire while we are away from camp.
My brother , vwnotcher, bought a WinnerWell stainless mini stove and it sure is an impressive unit. Much the same as the prospector stove for size but worth checking out for anyone in the market. They are extremely well engineered.
 
45ACPKING said:
We used a small prospectors stove in the 17ft TeePee tent. So no coals in the morning.
If anyone got up in the night they generally rekindled the stove.
We keep an acetylene torch handy and that gets the fire going really fast.
We could have used a bigger stove like the 25gallon barrel stove we used to use in the 12 x 16 wall tent but it got too cumbersome
Also we like the fact that the prospector heats up the tent in the morning real fast and by the time we leave camp for the hunt, the stove is pretty much burnt out and minimizies a tent fire while we are away from camp.
My brother , vwnotcher, bought a WinnerWell stainless mini stove and it sure is an impressive unit. Much the same as the prospector stove for size but worth checking out for anyone in the market. They are extremely well engineered.
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I believe they have models with windowed side walls to utilize the light from the fire. Does his have them?
 
Veritas et Libertas said:
I believe they have models with windowed side walls to utilize the light from the fire. Does his have them?
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yes the windows are an option. They are sealed well but are removeable for cleaning.
My brother's unit has a rectangular full length window down each side. We used it in place of a campfire on our trip as the BC southern coast has seen so little rain this past couple months we didn't want to risk an open fire. It threw heat really well.
My brother also has the water tank with spout for boiling water. It saddles on top of the stove and around the flue.
I was amazed at the engineering that went into these stoves and the welding and detailing.... exceptional.
and it all fit into a duffle bag ....... very slick units with lots of accesssories.
 
45ACPKING said:
yes the windows are an option. They are sealed well but are removeable for cleaning.
My brother's unit has a rectangular full length window down each side. We used it in place of a campfire on our trip as the BC southern coast has seen so little rain this past couple months we didn't want to risk an open fire. It threw heat really well.
My brother also has the water tank with spout for boiling water. It saddles on top of the stove and around the flue.
I was amazed at the engineering that went into these stoves and the welding and detailing.... exceptional.
and it all fit into a duffle bag ....... very slick units with lots of accesssories.
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Very interested in one once funds become available. Where did he purchase it? Ballpark price?
 
Potasz said:
Hey all
Tent size is 2 person with stove 11 ft across 7ft ish tall
For those who have some experience with a small hot teepee tent and have used a small tent stove to stay warm.
Can you share you experience with the small stove and how well it heated the tent and how long the heat lasted before it had to be restocked.
Looking at the small stainless units that are light and easy to carry for longer distances
Any advice and experience will be appreciated

Thanks
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Potasz, search out member here MD and his quest for a new tent stove.
Not specifically a Tee-Pee style tent, but rather I would suggest the information could cross over to your style.
Rob
 
I borrowed a Teepee tent for a snowy November moose hunt a few years ago and the owner loaned me a small steel stove too.

It wasn't a real tiny stainless steel stove, it was a rectangular box long enugh to store sections of stove pipe in it but it was toasty warm and you could cook on it too.

I would go out overnight if you didn't stoke it now and again, but what with two guys getting up to pee at least once a night, whoever got up would toss more wood in it.

I have a 9x12 wall tent now and just got a Camp Chef wall tent for it (have a look at Cabela's web site) but I haven't used it yet.

Here some pics of the tent and stove

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The following is the Camp chef tent stove

https://www.cabelas.ca/product/34900/camp-chef-wall-tent-barrel-stove-kit
 
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My buddy has a 6 man Kifaru tipi and stove. With the stove in it the thing is really a 2 man outfit. The stove does a great job of heating things up quickly, but they are far from being airtight and they burn out quickly, so you have to have a lot of wood ready to keep it going. The tents are also super light silnylon so they don't have any insulating value. That said, for fall camping if you have a choice between stove and no stove, it's a no brainer. But don't expect to be able to dry out much wet gear. Socks, gloves, maybe a shirt, but not much more than that. Seek Outside offers a silnylon wall tent with a stove that looks interesting due to the vertical walls which would give you more space, but retail they are about $1700US with a liner and seam sealing. They do have a factory blem that is just over a grand, which is interesting. If their stove is more airtight than the Kifaru then it should be good but they run about $450US, so it's a significant investment.
 
The Seek Outside stoves aren’t air tight. If it’s stoked right up and dampered right down you’ll get a couple
hours of heat. They aren’t really designed to be burning all night to keep you warm with a sub-par sleeping bag/pad set up, but they will absolutely get your tent borderline too hot to breathe before you get into your temperature appropriate sleeping bag on your insulated pad.

I use a Seek Outside Cimarron and their large titanium stove quite a bit.
 
I love wood heat, but more and more I'm thinking that an inexpensive vevor diesel heaters and a 12 volt battery might be a nice alternative option, save space and effort and you could run it all night if you wanted to.
 
Make sure to test everything under real world conditions while at home. Use the same type, and wetness of salvaged or cut wood you will in the bush, with the same chimney sections, inside the actual shelter. If anything isn’t flowing correctly it’s nice to know before you’re in the middle of nowhere with a smoke filled tent.
 
I have a 13ft diameter tee-pee 8.5’ peak.
I built a stove out of a propane tank.
Approx 12”x22”. It’s last about 3-4hr putting out decent heat. 6 hrs and theirs enough coals to put some small wood on and it’s going.
 
Jimbobob08 said:
Make sure to test everything under real world conditions while at home. Use the same type, and wetness of salvaged or cut wood you will in the bush, with the same chimney sections, inside the actual shelter. If anything isn’t flowing correctly it’s nice to know before you’re in the middle of nowhere with a smoke filled tent.
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Good call, it's always a good idea to run a new stove outside and burn off the paint and any oil etc if you can before trying it in a tent.
 
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