If you don’t have time to make a stove-grate, do it yourself, you can always use the ready-made options that are presented in stores. The price will be overpriced, and the product itself - devoid of important advantages, such as simplicity, versatility and reliability. If you go camping, it is best to make a Bond stove yourself. Moreover, it is an invaluable experience that one day can save your life.
Classification by type of combustion
The simplest camping stove-trowel can be called a basket roasting pan on a fiery burning. It is quite gluttonous in the flame, and also under it it is necessary to prepare a place almost the same as for a fire, since the embers can fly off quite far. She has only one advantage over the fire: fuel can be used in any way, even difficult to burn. Cones, desert shrubs, etc.
A good grate is at least partially used off-gas burning and pyrolysis. The greater the percentage of use of pyrolysis, the more economical the stove.
Material example
The simplest fiery stove-chipper can be made with your own hands from an ordinary cutlery dryer. Surely many people immediately have the thought of a tin can with holes, and this idea will be correct. In field conditions, using the same scheme, you can build a gutter from such a jar. It is not suitable for long use, but several times enough.
Cutlery dryers are made, as a rule, from a good food stainless steel, so the grate will serve for quite some time. The blank must be equipped with an improvised burner. You can weld a few bolts from the inside, you can make the burner removable. On the side you need to cut a hole for laying chips.
It is worth noting that such a stove is suitable only to boil water for tea or brewing instant noodles for one, maximum two people. Such a gutter should work only on the street. In no case do not use the fiery chippers in the tents.
Turbo
In stores, you can see the so-called turbo-stoves with a blow. They are repeated by some craftsmen, and they quickly understand the main drawback of such a device. Batteries are needed for the blower motor, so such a stove will be volatile. In addition, the micromotor can simply break down in a campaign. It is not worth discounting it, you just need to think about whether you can, in which case, do the repair of the stove.
In fact, a turbo-chipper is a pyrolysis furnace. See the drawing of the stove-chippers below, and you can proportionally change the dimensions to the necessary. The fuel is loaded to the lower edge of the gas outlet, and the stove is ignited from above. We must pay tribute to the American tourists in such a technological form. In a single trip, the pyrolysis furnace will be heavy, most suitable for group trips.
Benefits:
- 20-30 pine cones as fuel will be enough to prepare dinner for two or three people.
- The heat zone is concentrated along the axis of the oven, so it can be made of two suitable cans for canned food. She will serve much longer than the fiery.
- The pyrolysis stove-chipper can work on dry alcohol.
In surface combustion mode, it can be used as a heating system. This is allowed only in extreme cases and with great care, otherwise you can die from carbon monoxide. Something needs to be put under the bottom of the stove, otherwise the bottom of the tent in this place can become brittle.
In case of overturning, it is enough to quickly return to the vertical state, and work will continue.
Excluded "firing" sparks and coals, and the bottom itself does not heat up more than 80 degrees. It is safe enough for use in a tent.
From improvised materials
Recalling the historical excerpt, let's talk about the classic "Russian can oven". It is a tin can with several holes punched in its bottom. Such a stove-chippers have mainly heating qualities due to quiet surface combustion. It gives a weak flame and a lot of soft heat. It can be launched in a tent using a metal bowl with small pebbles as a pallet. It should be remembered that sand is unacceptable to use, since there will be no air flow. When burned, the bottom of the stove can warm up to 400 degrees, and the bottom of the bowl, even through pebbles, to 160 degrees.
How to kindle?
It is possible to quickly and easily ignite such an emergency stove with the help of tightly tucked toilet paper, cotton wool and other similar material. Before firing up, it is necessary to pierce this material with a pencil, a manual or sharp stick to the very bottom and pour 50-100 ml of any combustible substance, whether it is an ignition fluid, alcohol or vegetable oil.
Two empty cans, one in the other, are suitable for making a stove-chipper, on which it will be possible to boil water. To do this, it is enough to punch holes in the bottom of one of the cans, and at the second can, remove the bottom and make holes along the lower edge, then insert one into the other. All openings do not have to be even; they can be punched with a knife or a nail.