guns4toys Homemade Mini Wood Gas Burner-Stove
Friday, March 26th, 2010 at
6:38 pm
Homemade mini wood gas burner/stove. Made from recycled tin cans, one 15oz. Green Giant Asparagus Spears and one 31oz. Van Camps Pork And Beans. Total stove weight 145.5 grams or 5.1 oz. Achieved a 26.5 min. burn from 87.3 grams or 3 oz. of Mesquite wood, and boiled a quart of water in 10 min. There was only a small amount of soot on the pot bottom afterwards.
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Best wood gas stove and flame I’ve seen. Can you show us how you built the inside ?
I would be concerned that my pot would fall over. Rarely do you find perfectly level places to cook outdoors. Even campground tables slant as they age. Then what if you bump it? Or wind blows on it? Needs more stability IMO.
Just my 2 cents.
Hey BillyGoat4x4,
Thanks for commenting and you make a very good point! That pot stand is too small in diameter for proper pot stability. The stove is part of my continually evolving experimental design, and is not ready for camping or wilderness travel. I built this stove for observational study and to demonstrate its feasibility. At best it’s a primative prototype.
what is your wind thing made out of…
how was it made
Hello machoarchangel2,
That is a store bought windscreen for small backpack stoves and cost about 10 US dollars.
The brand name is,
Coghlan’s Aluminum Windscreen for Stoves.
hey thanks for the info. now i can save up to buy one
very nice!! done right!
Is IT pyrolysis wood????????????????
Love the Floyd!
lovin the floyd bro
i caught that right off the bat! good stuff!
Pink Floyd!!!! nice stove too.
Hi darek512, The wood used was mesquite and it’s a tree from the U.S. and Mexico. It is a hardwood and is good firewood that burns slow and very hot. It works well in wood gas stoves.
Pyrolysis is the chemical reaction that occurs when burning the wood. Exposed to high temperatures in the stove, the wood goes through a chemical decomposition process called charring where chemical compounds are separated in to elements. Wood gases are burned at the jets and it’s a flammable mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and methane gasses with carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water vapor also present. When the pyrolysis is complete the solids that are left are char or charcoal.
thx i just did not know what is that tree called mesquite couse I’m from Europe
how much charcoal is left after fire goes out? thank you great vids!
Steve, thanks for your wood stove videos! I made your Mini Wood Gas stove this past weekend. I could only find the 28 oz Van Camps can, not the 31 oz, so I went ahead with that. Bottom of 15 oz can is sitting higher than yours. Test burn went out just before boil (~200°). I really did not see blue flame. I used Hdwre cloth for potstand that holds the pot 1.25″ above top of 15 oz can. Maybe this is too high? Do you think the slightly smaller outer can size had any effect?
Also, what’s your technique for cutting the hole in the outer can’s lid for the inner can to slide into? Drilling holes in both cans was easy, it was this cutting the lid technique that was challenging for me. Did you cut the lid before removing it from the 31oz can or after? Does the ‘compression’ fitting need to be an air-tight seal around the 15 oz can in order for efficient gasification / secondary burn? I’m just trying to troubleshoot why my Mini could not quite get 1 qt water to boil.
does the fuel/wood have to be under the jets
someone please help
It will burn best if the fuel is kept below the jets, a little tender and kindling above the jets will be ok because it will burn down quickly.
It appears to be a nice non-fiddle design. I would think that the pot support part may be better without the round holes and castellate the top with five protrusions leaving a gap of 1/4″ starting with a gap/support of 2:1 Would need to be increased to get the maximum output from the burner and this can be done by lifting the pot sightly. Use a small v support to lift ‘one edge’.
pink floyd
nice vid
That’s 3-1/2 oz of wood, to you & me! Pretty efficient! Anybody wanna buy a NICE, almost new, multi-fuel backpackers stove?
Thats cool, not even a bit of smoke.
Im making one to cook on the patio for fun, our kitchen is too small for two people.
Atleast that’ll be my kitchen.
great little stove! the wind guard helps in alot of ways.