Gas Bottle Wood Burner

Step 8 Lighting

To light, you will need to lay down about a whole newspaper of screwed up paper, or just to the top of the air vent.

Close the air vent

Light it, then whack on some small sticks to get the fire going.

Once the sticks have caught, put on small logs, and once they have started burning, place bigger logs on.

when the fire has a good base, open the air vent.

Once going well, the paint will turn black, and start pinging off in hot areas.

Comments

[pdtnc]

Do you just load it up onto the base of the bottle and light it? Or is there a Fire Grate in there above the air inlet?

[btop]

i have tried both, both seem to work equally as well.

[pdtnc]

ok, cheers

[Lochy]

Cracking LPG bottle wood burner. I fit wood burning stoves for a living and have seen a good few of these but this one has some lovely touches. Great door lock, really good vent and control. Controlling air into a stove and getting rid of smoke is critical. This design could only be improved by adding a throat plate/baffle about the height of the top of the door. This would cause the combustion gases to swirl, give a secondary burn, giving cleaner emissions and keep the hot air in the burner longer. The plate would need to be removable for soot clearing but if the unit burns good and hot, it'll not soot up much. Wood burns best with air from above (coal from below) so the air control could raise a little. The bottles tend to burn out if used regularly (workshop etc) but you can get around this if you fit a bottom plate and bed in some fire bricks, vertically around the burn area. Overall a lovely stove. Well done mate.

[btop]

Thanks, I was going to put a baffle in, but decided not to. I was thinking on how to get it through the door.

[LokiGnosis]

btop, two questions that might be on the "Stupid" side but here goes, why not have the Bottle up side down, so that the Flat base is now on the top? Cooking Plate as per a Pot Belly Oven? Failing that, if I were to have the Dome at the Top, couldn't the Pipe come straight out of the top, rather than the side? Thanks, Loki.

[btop]

 I've made a few with the pipe coming out of the top, they get very hot, but burn a lot faster, usually with flames out of the top of the chimney!

[LokiGnosis]

Cheers btop, I've made a Gas Bottle Burner and am going to make a few alterations. I am going to cut a Sq out of the top and fit a flat plate for a coffee pot/cooking and use the piece that I cut out as a baffle that can be swung/pivoted, just to see if I can..........
Any advice on the thickness of the flat plate?
Thanks,
Loki.

[btop]

 Like the idea of a hot plate, I might try one soon. As for the baffle, I don't know much about how it all works but Im sure someone else can help us out?

[reheat]

Great stove, baffle plate could be made in two halves and fed in thru door apature. Also if a metal frame was welded around the door and the middle cut out then a piece of 4mm ceramic stove glass could be fitted to give a great view of the action.