guns4toys Homemade Mini Wood Gas Burner-Stove

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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• homemade
• wood
• gas
• burner
• fire
• downdraft
• thermochemical
• gasifier
• stove
• energy
• recycled
• charcoal
• biogas
• woodgas
• pyrolysis

[dizzaeble]

does the fuel/wood have to be under the jets

someone please help

[guns4toys]

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.

[darek512]

Is IT pyrolysis wood????????????????

[guns4toys]

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.

[guns4toys]

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.

[machoarchangel2]

what is your wind thing made out of...

how was it made

[guns4toys]

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.

[SirBubbalott]

Great control of the flame with such a small burner and containment of heat is excellent!! Nice Job!

[johnsmith4king]

Best wood gas stove and flame I've seen. Can you show us how you built the inside ?

[1LonePuma]

I suspect a lot of questions could have been answered had we seen the entire video. As is, we don't know what fuels the fire, under the the wood chips?

[calldrin]

Question!

I made this stove and it works OK .. but I get a lot of soot and about 1 1/2" of unburnt wood after the burn .. I guess it is charcoal, but I thought there wood be very little ash left.

Any Ideas? I tried to make it just like the one in the video.

Thanks,

Chuck

Chico, CA

[redcolt777]

what does it weigh?

[mk4umha]

Where did you get that wind blocker that wraps around your stove?

[shazdee]

Thanks for your vids. You wouldn't believe how hard is to find a no nonsense this is how it's made vid. Most just show it burning.

[gladtidings4all]

I like this one too! How did you make the fence metal sheet around it?

[MsToasterlady]

The Argau Camping Toasters would be a great accessory

[slodeth5]

Really nice stove. Excellent sootless and long lasting. I'm impressed every time I watch this. Just finished my second one.