Last Resort All-In-One Tent/Stove/Cooker

A few years ago I had an idea on how to make a lightweight, cheap survival tent/stove/cooker. A good tent with a wood stove is a ton of money so I came up with this idea to create a shelter with heat inside that you can also use to cook. It only cost me about 30 dollars or so. Now people that can’t afford much but want to be prepared still can be at a low, low cost. It is not as nice as a 2000 dollar set up but it works very well. I have tried it in the winter.

I have been changing designs trying to make it better. The first three pictures are the old design. The last two are the new.

 

 

These are two 4 inch stove pipes with a ring welded towards the top to hold a tarp up. The base is a short pipe with expanded metal welded onto the bottom and 2 steel stakes welded onto the sides. This design is 3 separate pieces, 2 chimney pipes and the bottom bracket that all slide together.

 

The tarp has a stove jack in the center of the tarp. The stove jack was made by cutting a 6 inch hole in the tarp, gluing a silicon hot pad onto the tarp, then cutting a 4 inch hole in the hot pad. The tarp is your tent. The heat from the stove in the middle is what heats your tent.

 

 

The top of the chimney has a pot skirt (coffee can) and a pot for cooking. The design is like a rocket stove where the cooking is done with the heat of the exhaust.

 

To light a fire, first drop some paper down the chimney followed by a small amount of fuel (briquettes, wood, etc.) and light it through the metal mesh at the bottom of the pipe.

(12-15 briquettes for the 4 inch (old design) was about right)

 

 

This is the new design. It is 6 inch tubing about 50 inches tall, expanded metal welded onto the bottom , 2 stakes welded onto the sides of the bottom, 2 handles welded on the sides of the pipe, a ring welded towards the top (in order to hold up the tarp).

 

Also, I found that the briquette chimney turned upside-down and placed on top of the chimney pipe can work as a pot skirt for a cooking pot.

 

 

The advantages of the new design are:

• Easier to construct because there is one piece instead of three.
• 6 inch pipe can hold more fuel than 4 inch pipe, and get a warmer fire.
• The handles on the pipe allow you to push the stove right into the earth, compared to having to use a hammer to stake down the pipe like in the old design.

 

The advantages of the old design are:

• Weighs 6 pounds compared to 20 pounds
• Can compact for transportation if needed