SilverFire Scout | Biomass Backpacking Stove | Field Preview

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors gives a preview of the Scout backpacking stove by SilverFire. Constructed of stainless steel and consisting of a nesting design, the Scout looks to be both easily packable and extremely diverse in it's applications. The SilverFire Scout is a gasifier stove, meaning it has 2 burning cycles which yields an incredibly efficient flame.

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hey what's up Turtles its Creek here with blackout outdoors and today I wanted to do a preview of a stove Stoney and I picked up at the great American outdoor show that came to town in Harrisburg Pennsylvania this is really the only product I caught our eye and really warranted a purchase from our perspective but it's the sort of gasification style stove if you're familiar with the DIY wood-burning stove we did a few videos on this is works off that same principle of a primary secondary burn sort of the gasification processes processes of burning wood but nonetheless this is that stove I'm just going to get it out get a little fire going so talked about it and you know sort of my initial feelings about this stove and whatnot so this is a silver fire scout silver fire makes a whole bunch of different types of stoves for sort of off-the-grid living if you will all sorts of stuff but this is a small Scout version it comes in this stuff sack and one of the first things that's really cool that you're going to notice and I will as or we did as well is how small and compact this stove really is now this is a nesting in itself this is not its actual size but about double in height with this but it's constructed out of stainless it definitely weighs under a pound I forget exactly how much it weighs at the moment take it apart this is actually the stove stand that sits upside down inside of it take that out first sort of this has this ring if you will in this pot stand feet the next step take out the bottom of the stove move that off of here and then as I pick up the meat potatoes of the stove that it pulls up on itself under here this run

my fingers tracing the gap between here this is actually the Astra Kohl catcher from the bottom of the stove so potentially you're not going to start a fire with this if any ashes or coals fall down between the holes if you look inside the stove you can see the details of these holes that are sort of shaped in a flame this is sort of a trademark if you will for this for the company of these then I round holes it sort of look like a little flame this is where actually the secondary burn will take place so the gas will come out of here and burn but this is a ring that's running the complete inside of this and then down at the bottom you can see another series of holes and underneath that's the ash catcher that I just mentioned and then as I take the bottom of this and put this down inside of it sits on it really neat and then again you have these holes running the whole circumference of this and that allows the draught to come up through here which you know you get the process of burning this really efficient gasification style of stove and then put the top of this on here that's all there is to it so our process would for this stove and in my experience the best type of weather that's going to work for this now this will burn off all type of biomass but in my experience for longevity of burn time you really want a hardwood and batana down take the time to make little baton pieces of wood something like this got the angles on this got a nice piece of wood that's going to burn long it's going to burn fishing inside of here like I said you don't have to take the time you can do this on a lot but because this is the winter time as you can see now and we're above freezing out here so things are melting everything's really wet I really wanted to take the time and make sure I got some dry wood to burn in here I didn't really want to fuss with with wet and you know even saturated wood because there is still a little bit of moisture in here just because like I said everything is sorting starting to fall and there's a whole bunch of snow out here and the principles of a fire are sort of amplified when you try to put it inside this small thing with the moisture content air flow all that is amplified so you really need really dry wood for this to burn really well or at least initially to get it at it at a maximum burn so what I'm going to do to get this fire going I'm just going to I am going to use a lighter in some birch bark I got a bag of birch bark that I always carry around for me and my kit my DIY kit my denim denim kid I made got some birch bark I believe is probably at least a couple times a different birch bark in there probably yellow and some river I want to be careful that I don't load this too much and cover up all the holes I still want to make sure there's a nice healthy flow of oxygen use that one burn I'm just going to get this fire from the bottom now I know you can load this with the you know regular fuel and get the fire from the top I know that's a process or you know how you're supposed to do this but my experience sometimes that doesn't work depending on the condition of the fuel if it's wet you know in optimal conditions where it's really dry you probably can do that but since like I said I'm fighting the elements right now I'm just going to start from the bottom and you know see how it goes and I'm carrying this would I baton down in this little stuff sack for my hammock camp sure I made just keep it off the ground see that black smoke the oil burning off that birch

I want to be careful I don't smother this add too much fuel too soon once it stops smoking I know I'll have a pretty efficient burn going on in here fighting the draft right now the steady breeze is not really going to help I had one more piece let this do its thing I'm going to gather a little bit of snow from a cook pot get this on here you

and the thing about making or using snow for drinkable water you want to make sure you dig off or scrape off the top layer that's been exposed to the elements the particulates coming around from the trees the wind all that make sure you get down to a nice pure pure you know section of snow and you're going to have to keep adding more snow to this because you saw I had this pack down pretty tight to the brim of this pot but as its melts it's going to probably only give me this much water down there but once I have a warm liquid in here as I start adding water it will start melting much quicker at the add a little bit of wood actually I see that flame Kalon I want to let it die

a little too early so I needed to add more excuse me I needed to add more fuel to the fires going out it appears there's a ton of condensation and it's dripping off of this and I put it over it was like almost putting the fire out now that I have it at a pretty high burn it's doing pretty well put this lid back on let this water come to an old temperature and airflow is a huge huge non-issue but design characteristic of a stove like this so you can add too much fuel and it won't want to burn efficiently just putting in a twig and moving one of those little pieces of baton what I have can make all the difference for this to start catching and get out of really prime burn just something the intricacies we have to figure out using this type of stove I'm just going to come with practice in use and I'm still learning every time I do it I'm learning the small ways that make this a little bit better to use easier type of wood all that to learn in progress but it's really really convenient to have a bunch of firewood right around my neck these little pieces of baton wood really really nice if it wasn't snow on the ground wasn't wet I you know I could have it next to me but because it's wet and there's snow it's really nice to have this hanging around my neck going to let this water get to a really nice hot temperature and make a hot drink for me and Stoney this is Creek signing out with blak outdoors later Turtles