Kodiak woodstove extension...

[LilKJ]

Thought people might dig this... trying to extend the seasons of camping with my wife and a toddler and I figured a woodstove was the next step. The issue obviously being that there is a toddler around and our Kodiak 9x8 doesn't have enough room to safely have a stove inside.

Here's what we started with (complete with toddler)

 

[LilKJ]

After much work, plenty of mistakes, and a list of things I'd do differently if I were to make another one: we have a waxed canvas extension for the tent. It isn't staked out perfectly in the pics, so ignore the sagging.

 

[LilKJ]

Stove is an old train car stove I found a while back... combustion chamber double-wall stone inside and the ash dumps into the lower chamber so you can clean the stove out while it is running and no worry about sparks. The bottom half of the stove hardly even heats up so I'm pretty excited about it. Nice touch is that I can stake it to the ground using the holes that it was originally bolted to the floor with. Solves our heating issue and the tent screen door should keep the kiddo away from the stove. I'm excited to try it out once I get some guy lines, spark arrestor, and a couple of other random parts.

 

[Utah KJ]

Well look at yous

 

[LilKJ]

Well look at yous

Kind of a big deal.

 

[billiebob]

what is the tent made of ??????

 

[LilKJ]

Tent is a Kodiak canvas tent, extension is waxed canvas.

 

[digitalnomad]

Interesting rig. I have the 14' X 10' 8 man VX style Kodiak tent. Even if your tent was bigger, I don't think a pipe going out the top of it would last very long in the wind since the roof flexes and cab move a couple feet inward and then back out.