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Wow!! if you built all that including the stove in 20 hours ..I'm flying you out here to work on my boat...That's amazing
Very nice job.
Many Years ago when I was sort of a free spirit in the hay day of my youth..I purchased an old home built camper to put on the back of my 3/4 ton 52 Chevy PU..I bought a very thin walled non air tight stove and mounted it in it...I'm telling you all I had to do was start a bit of newspaper and some cedar kindling in that thing and it would burn you out of there...I don't think I ever had a real wood stove type fire in it as it would have just cooked the place...I have looked online for that cheap type of stove but haven't found what I had yet..The nice thing about the thin metal stoves is the heat transfer is almost immediate and thus so is the cool down if you snuff the fire...but they definitely would not last as long...I think I paid 35.00 for it brand new in 1976.
I realize this is not the safest thing in regards to fire brick lining and all that jazz but were not talking about burning cord wood here..just small bits and chunks gathered hither and yon...That old stove I had had a 6" flue but I'm sure it would work just fine with 3 or 4.
On another note all the Dickerson stoves have a double walled flue to draw in outside air for their operation and a sealed firebox so their propane models are as dry as wood would be......we just like to smell a little wood smokey that's all...albeit maybe not very yachtingly correct.
Wolf...if it were me and this was just for cooking and not heating Id go with diesel or propane...much easier to control the heat and its basically instant on or off done deal.
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