Thank You for your honest insights. It's always good news to know when people get out of a fire alive. Did your parents have the required setup for their wood stove (non combustible floor and wall) (bolted down stove)? You mentioned a mobile home, Did they have the stove on while driving?LsFarm wrote:Notes on what come to mind on this:
The stove must be firmly fastened down.. must have bolted on legs, and legs bolted to the floor.. A camper, motor home or pickup camper shake, twist and in general will cause anything not bolted down move around.. you don't want a 200+ pound piece of steel /iron 'walking around' or falling over and rolling around.
The same concernes about the flue pipe, and the timble through the roof or wall of the camper..
My parents had a wood burning stove in a mobile home.. the mobile home was made from thin particle board, thin plywood and wood stringers over the steel framework.. The wood paneling was tinder dry,, and one day it caught fire, the mobile home took only 20 minutes to burn to the bare steel..
So my feelings about a solid fuel burning device in a camper or trailer SCREAM NOT SAFE to me.. My parents just barely got out of the place before the doorways were blocked by fire.. and nobody could have got out the windows.. too high and too small.
Next is burning anthracite.. are you planning on stopping for an overnight stay on this pilgramage to Mickey world ?? You can burn a lot of propane for the cost of just the insulated flue pipe, much less the non-combustable floor, and walls around the stove and flue pipe.. Propane can be turned on almost instantly,, and off, safely instantly..
My thoughts are to use propane to safely heat a movable camper..
Greg L.
I have the non combustible floor and wall that I can use. The stove comes with double wall pipes. And the Penn stove can be bolted down.
I don't know if you have young children. But a one night stay at Disney would bring back home some very questionable faces after a 24+hrs drive. Why couldn't we stay a couple more days, Daddy? Camping there vs staying at one of their resorts is so much economical and more fun IMO. Besides, that isn't when I'd need the stove the most. It's on my road trip with the camper parked, and at rest stops. With the crazy temps we've gotten this year, and that includes Disney (FL), I'd light up a stove at their campground too.
On average, My family and I vacation in Orlando for 10 days (including driving round trip). When one factors in the use of propane while camping and rest stops for cooking, heat, hot water, you start to 2nd guess yourself on whether you should of stayed at a hotel/resort.
All in all, the purpose of this thread is to find out if a handful of people ( not just 1) has done this before? If so, I'd like to hear from them. Poconoeagle, Is so far the only one person that comes close to what I am trying to find out. He has a wood stove in his boat.