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Old 03-11-2007 | 02:39 PM
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EKM
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Cook stoves or heating stoves?

Cooking for Main Camp:
2 - Coleman small camping stoves (burners 7-10,000 btu), good for fine tune cooking, simmering, etc.
1- Large Cabelas3burner (20,000 or so each burner) for hard core (skillets & griddles) cooking, coffee
1 - 40,000 btu single burner(for heatingdishwater/rinsewater)
1 - 170,000 btu "turkey fryer" burner for heating shower water
1 - small, fold up, stove top, minioven

Heating for Main Camp:
1 - [Mess hall] - Medium size Davis wood burning cylinder stove with coal grateand warming tray(Corn cobs in kerosene for kindling/starting) and 1 - Double Mr. Heater to kick start warming up the mess hall in the morning.

1 - [Sleeping Area] -50,000 btu propane stand alone "farm stove" with Eisenglas and Fire Clay and "Robert Shaw" thermostat --- home sweet home.

1 - [Outhouse Tent] - Propane lantern on stubby propane tree on 25 pound propane bottle, sits in the corner, light, heat, warm toilet seat --- home sweet home.

Spike Camp:
1 - Small Davis wood burning cylinder stove with coal grate, warming trayand "hang on the side" water jacket with spigot [the latter is way more handy than I would have ever expected for spike camp]

1 - 40,000 btu single burner for heating water first thing in the morning when the wood stove may be cold.
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Note 1: Buddy Heaters --- I own a Buddy Heater with the low oxygen sensor.... mistaken purchase.... I leave it at home.... totally unreliable, neighboring group from Michigan ran into the same problem, fickle at 9,000 ASL and/or with high winds.... IMHO, if you want HEAT and lots of it without condition, then don't get a Buddy Heater, get something low tech with a good flue to the outside.

Note 2: Fuel --- 2 one hunded pound bottles of propane, 10 twenty pound bottles of propane, 20 one pound spin on cartridges for lanterns (7), 1 fifteen pound propane bottle (pannier friendly)for spike camp. Coal: about 10 pounds to fire it up just once so I can smell that nostalgic smell from when I was a kid, okay for a couple hours and then yuck, enough of that. Wood: while we take chainsaws along, we prefer to pick up our firewood cut and presplit near Craig. We considercamp set up timeand scoutingtime and our energy reservesto be too valuable to screw around with scavenging for firewood, especially if you have had rain/snow it is an unrewarding activity.
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