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Making the Twig Stove - excerpts from 21 minute video

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This little video shows excerpts from our full 21 minute video on how to make the Twig Stove, that also includes detailed written instructions with plenty of photos and a drawing. See our website for this and a blog about the origins of this stove.

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Video Transcription

that's perry peacock with wilderness innovation and today I'm going to show you how to make the twig stove you might also call it may be a hobo stove with a with a fan you know energized so Hobo stove or something we're going to put a fan on it and it'll be kind of fashioned after this olden that I've had since the 80s and I've got another video on that showed dissected that but and just basically make it out of a can of this ice 48 to 50 ounce contained and on this one I'm going to use the try a pancake fan from radio shack two balls i'm back in the other side of the shop here well I've done is a made little bracket that holds the fan on one side like so I can slide it in and up but I think that probably right there is going to work so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to take and make me a mark on the can right there and kind of right there so I can see that's where I need to line up at okay I'll just drill out the other hole here wherever we feel like it here oh yeah pop rivets duct tape pop rivets and baling wire that's all you need some pink and it can make anything basically the fan fits right in there we put our battery leads on here and we can be powered ready to rock and roll to drill the hole three holes around here I'm going to shove the pop rivets in there I'm going to cut a piece of lid like this the drops right down inside of there make you watch the whole thing i'll set it off for a minute alright so there we are pretty good number holes I know if you can see up inside of there but our little a rivet stick out on three sides here and then this will just get a little rest right on top of those and there you go just like that so there's our bottom of our fire chamber and i'm just going to drill keep your fingers out of the way now i'm just gonna all rights all we do is just shove it down in there okay so now now we've got our they can hold a big big pan or pot here or if you have something smaller you can actually kind of orient those things kind of a little bit like that however you want so you can support something a little smaller you

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