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31/8/2012 at 10:46am
Location: south of France (Nīmes)
Outfit: Bell tent 4m
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With Pipsqueak stove, the flue comes out from outside of the wall of the Bell tent (no rain coming) and extends two meters above the horizontal flue.
So top of flue is about 2.5m which is 10cm higher than top of Bell and its horizontal distance from the top of Bell is 2.4m. No tar upon canvas.
My two years experience: Pipsqueak cast iron makes very hot stove (at times, I can't approach hand closer than 15cm at sides or above) during longer time (after the stove is "off" or on the way to be dead) than the steel ones I experienced (happily since fire works mainly "on" which is not far from maximum, since the tiny place where to burn tiny logs!), and that's important for evenings inside the Bell (cooking, toileting... and going to bed when fire is dead). It gives hot water very quickly, and without the cast iron round top plate cooking upon it is very quick too with direct flames (eggs and tomatoes!)
During winter, inside the house with very good insulated chimney, I usually get the Pipsqueak stove still running after 3 hours with very good dry wooden logs and then can feed it again; I can have the stove running slowly.
Inside Bell tent, I need to feed it each hour (good dry small logs I can collect around the camping place) and prefer not to have the stove running slowly or only a short time and not on evenings!
In my Bell tent with the Pipsqueak stove, better to get the fire going to bed before I'm going to bed: I experienced awaking in the night with fumes inside the tent (it was raining, wind changing...); so I run the fire "on" or "off", no slow running!
Regarding the horizontal flue I need to be able to controle it and clean it when necessary, easily dismanteling the connection with vertical flue by moving stove towards center of Bell; once, after two days raining and fire going too much slowly, I got the tar building up inside the outer part of horizontal flue making fumes going the wrong way (and once fumes went inside during the night, very-very dangerous, I'm still alive)... But with fire running "on" (not slow) I never experienced tar there.
I choosed the 4m Bell for warmer climate inside in the mountain, so choosed one sided fitted stove (not much place inside!)
Sure the vertical flue would need less tar cleaning inside the pipe, and allow for some slow running fire.
Excuse for my bad English.
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Post last edited on 31/08/2012 11:40:04
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