We once saw an Airstream trailer with a woodstove in it. The chimney went up through the front roof vent. There was a load of wood fastened to the trailer's rear bumper. Saw it driving down the road so there was no way to see inside except through the window as we passed.
A wood pellet or corn burner would an alternative as they use 2 inch venting and combustion air intake tubes through the wall (no O2 problems), are well shielded so they can be set closer to a wall, very little ash produced so virtually no mess and automatic fuel feed controls the heat output. They are a lot cheaper to heat with than propane but up front cost is a little high. Wood pellets comes in 40# bags that you dump into a hopper in the stove.
I thought for certain he was going to say he put in a free standing outside wood furnace and piped the heat in. When he said he put the furnace in the RV I had reservations and still have. Heck he could put the free standing furnace on a steel trailer and pull it behind his RV, if he wanted to move. He could still pipe heat in and it would be a darn sight safer.
Wood pellets kind of defeat the purpose of having a all that FREE firewood nearby. Most of the people I know that burn pellets, live in the suburbs, not out in the great Northwest
I do agree with the "efficiency" of those stoves though.....but this one was hand-made and a lot cheaper, which fit the OP's needs. I like the idea of the wood burning trailer......guess you'd have to run some sort of coolant lines with anti-freeze mixture to a heat exchanger/radiator in the RV....and a circulating pump would be needed.....but a pretty neat idea!
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Homemade wood-stove in an RV is a recipe for disaster. Hopefully, there are no others residing with you.
I was employed in the stove business for 15 years and have a good understanding of the many dangerous conditions that you may have created.
Be careful! Jack
Mont G&J wrote: Homemade wood-stove in an RV is a recipe for disaster. Hopefully, there are no others residing with you.
I was employed in the stove business for 15 years and have a good understanding of the many dangerous conditions that you may have created.
Be careful! Jack
So expand on them for us. Explain how it's different in a camper than in a house.
Mont G&J wrote: Homemade wood-stove in an RV is a recipe for disaster. Hopefully, there are no others residing with you.
I was employed in the stove business for 15 years and have a good understanding of the many dangerous conditions that you may have created.
Be careful! Jack
So expand on them for us. Explain how it's different in a camper than in a house.
IMO. Not one step in the manufacture of his wood-stove or installation would pass inspection for a mobile home, let alone an install into a RV. Respectfully, Jack
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“Mobile home owners, however, should harbor a special respect for wood-burning heaters . . . in part because clearance distances from combustible surfaces will likely be reduced, and to some degree because the materials used in such manufactured housing are more heat-conductive than those often used in conventional structures. Less obvious is the fact that combustion—of any fuel—depletes the oxygen supply within a living space, and this can present a health hazard in itself.
PLAYING BY THE RULES
Before a woodstove may be installed in a mobile home, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires that specific regulations be satisfied. First, the stove model must have been tested by a HUD-approved laboratory and listed for use in mobile homes. A metal tag permanently fastened to the rear of the appliance indicates the name of the testing facility and the stove's compliance with HUD Standard UM-84. Second, a tested and listed prefabricated chimney system—connected directly to the stove and installed properly—must be used. Third, a hard ducting system for bringing outside combustion air directly to the stove's air inlet is required. And finally, some means of securing the stove to the floor of the home is called for.
In addition to the HUD requirements, some basic clearance and installation guidelines, provided by the stove manufacturer and based on testing to Underwriters' Laboratory Standard 1482, should be adhered to.
As a mobile home owner, your choice of woodstoves is limited to those approved by HUD, but you won't be disappointed by the selection. Most manufacturers either make stoves specifically for use in mobile homes or have adapter kits available to bring standard models into compliance with the established regulations. In general, HUD-approved units burn wood rather than coal, have a moderate Btu output, and incorporate a top-exiting flue collar.”
Back during the late sixties and most of the seventies we would tent camp in the Pacific Northwest and saw a lot of vans and homemade TCs during the Hippy days with wood burner stove pipes sticking thru the roof. No comment about safety, just saying I have seen many of them in the old days.
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