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Mmmm! Want one. Appeals to the arsonist in my nature in the way piezo ignition gas stoves can't. Trouble is there not too many trees to burn near my usual wild camp spots in the lakes. Will it burn peat? Is that wrong in this evironmental climate we are in these days?
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 twigs aren't too heavy to carry. i believe there is one on offer on ebay at present. clicky
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Ther's a similar stove called th whitebox stove. It was a subject of a podcast on the outdoor station by I think Podcast Bob. Two guys went overnighting somewhere like the ridgeway and used this stove. I remember reading that they are efficient in terms of weight carried for longer, remote trips such as 2 or more weeks since you don't need to cary fuel or empty gas canisters. Using thin twigs makes it burn hotter and faster but you use more twigs. I think the white box stove allows a technique to dry out twigs for the next day. I reckon they would make good canoe camping stoves.
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 Andy Howell posted a nice review of them - here I have one but have only had chance to use it the once. It was good fun but you do end up smelling of woodsmoke afterwards 
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 And just what is so wrong about smelling of woodsmoke exactly please! That is a wilderness bushcrafter's dream smell that is!
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I am actually very near to sold on the idea of getting one of these little beauties now! Thanks guys.
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I love my Bushbuddy - it's one of my favourite bits of kit. That said, I still take my Coleman F1 with me as back-up as it's invariably tipping down when I'm on the fells. I also spend plenty of time on Dartmoor, where wood's somewhat scarce
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 I've got one but haven't trialled it yet; plan is to carry it as the backup to a canister on long trips, perhaps also to make hot drinks on leisurely lunch stops. The fact that I like playing with fire is neither here nor there It looks extremely robust and well-made. Perhaps I should cook dinner on it instead of the gas hob tonight...
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Go on, treat yourself! You know you want to now!
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I think it'd be more fun to make lunch on it tomorrow under the new tarp. Much more fun if it wasn't pitched on our front lawn in East Anglia. I want a proper hill with rocks on. If you're still thinking about it, would you like me to post some images?
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OK. I made lunch without the tarp. I need some practice building small piles of tiny kindling in a confined space on open mesh (c. 10mm gaps) to light the thing, but once alight it burned extremely effectively. A moderate handful of twigs, none larger than my little finger (I have small hands) brought 500ml of water to the boil in 8 minutes. I was particularly interested in how hot the stove gets and how long it takes to cool, as I hope to use it for lunches on the trail. As the instruction sheet says, the base of the stove (the bit with the air intake holes) remained cool enough that I could carry the stove around in my bare hand while it was burning; it was warm, nothing more. After making the soup I allowed the fire to burn to coals (took no time at all), then picked the stove up by the base and quickly emptied the coals onto a paving slab. The empty stove was cool enough to pack away in about 5-7 minutes.
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I thought this Caldera Cone Ti-Tri was a clever idea - an extremely efficient alchohol (meths) and esbit stove that also burns wood.
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On a slight aside. I got one of the first Caldera Cone's to fit the Alpkit mug (Vargo Ti). The cone itself is quite high and the pot sits high over the flame. I found it not be very effcient with the meths. My home made coke can/windshield combo was about 25% more efficient. Also the cone is difficult to transport as it's so large. It may work very well with the original pan, but the efficiency is just not there with the Alpkit one. I even tried a number of different meths stoves and all were less effective than when used with a normal windshield. Mainly I think due to the pot being held so high from the flame.
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They do seem quite finely tuned.
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