Create you own Ultimate Camping & Survival Stove!

Create you own Ultimate Camping & Survival Stove!

With the remarkable compact Universal Cross-Members, anyone can quickly convert food cans, coffee cans, IKEA canisters and paint cans into the BEST and MOST VERSATILE of all portable wood-burning, wood-gas, and multi-fuel camping and survival stoves.

What inspired you to make this project?:
Ken spent many years trying to find the perfect portable camp stove. Out of frustration with the selection, he began developing his own. After many design iterations it dawned on him that he could use regular cans. As testimony to how effective cans are and the shortcomings of commercial stoves, cans remain by far the most popular kind of camp stove. Youtube has countless videos on how to create a "hobo stove" from a can. However, cans have their own limitations, since they were not designed to function as stoves. They have no legs to elevate for ventilation through the base or to stabilize them, nor do they have a means of elevating the pot or pan or allowing air flow out the top. They therefore have to be hacked up -- a difficult and risky task, even with the best tools, and the results are sub-optimal. Tabs cut and bent out from the base are sharp and unsteady and large holes have to be cut in the sides so that fuel can be fed in and as a flue for smoke to flow out. Burning fuel falls out of all of these large holes, the can no longer works well as a wind-break, there are multiple sharp protrusions, and the stove is very unstable. Only a small pot or pan can be supported on these. The Siege Stove cross-members solve all of these problems and result in a highly stable stove that can support a large pot or pan and benefits from the can's light weight and ultra-low cost.

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