Single wall pipe for the first half, sure is the way to go 👍 I don't understand what the logic is to double wall the pipe all the way from stove top?

How do you get it hot enough to burn the creosote?

Yeah we've got the intake dance down to a science at this point, but as I say, we can only get a few hours of burn out of the wood we have here in Saskatchewan. Maybe if I had a nice oak forest? Anyway thanks for the comment and support!

@larrysmith when you close the primary air intake like that, do you see high amounts of creosote build up? I am!

You bet, folks. Share away!

I want one for my van I'm going to be living in

I think you should ask Cubic Mini Wood Stove if they will give you a Grizzly woodstove to review to do a comparison. I live in Canada as well and a longer burn time would really help.

Glad you liked it JT. Thanks for your comments.

Much appreciated.

Interesting point, i understand and think it could help. Could the secondary combustion plate be another issue because it s facing the front top corner but also the window? Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the support!

Glad to hear we could help. Good luck with it.

You bet. Good luck with the cub. What’s it going in?

@@HayWoodsandWetlands An 8' x 12' cabin. I'm 71 and hoping to avoid climbing on the roof to clean out the flue, but even without a prostate, us old gals are up and down at night. I took that into consideration, lol!

Thanks for the tip, Paul. I'll check it out.

Patty Martirosian I agree on the top, but was thinking soapstone would be better and hold the heat for hours if cut a few inches thick.

My pleasure. Glad it was useful.

Glad you enjoyed it. Good luck with the Bus!

You bet Rachel. Hope it helps!

Thx for watching!

Awesome! Congrats on the build. Let us know how it goes! Thanks for watching!

Should be more than enough heat for a little trailer like that, Les. Remember to allow for some fresh air in a tiny space so you don't burn up all your oxygen when the cub is blazing away. Sounds like a fun project.

I’m tempted to get a 4kw dwarf instead of a grizzly cause it’s essential to have too much heat instead of not enough, right?

@@alesandrabiasello Research that more. If you have to damp it down, to keep from blasting yourself out of there from the heat, you build up the creosote really fast. I'd rather undersize than oversize. I think it's safer from fire, CO poisoning, etc.

Thanks for the tip, Josh. I'll check it out.

Montello Newbie How do you like Montello? I have always been curious, saw some dirt cheap land for sale a couple decades ago and almost bought because it was so cheap it was a cant lose situation (price of dinner out per acre).. Don’t know why I never pulled the trigger, probably cause I never got over there to check it out. I used to drive through elko a couple times a year, and go to Ogden every five years, but was always in a hurry driving to Boise from Vegas, etc.... never felt I had the time on that trip. Oh well, just curious what I missed out on.... I ended up buying land in Alaska for a bit more than what the Montello land cost... but I’m a stone’s throw (literally) from ocean water, and see hump backs and orcas all the time on my trips to and from town. Can’t wait til I’m retired and can spend more time there... at least two more years in Vegas...

@@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ Sounds like a win win situation for you; Montello or Alaska. I like it fine...had my struggles but keeping my head up. Yep, I got 10 acres for $3,500 {with free rattlesnakes every summer. What a deal}. Aug 2019 will be four years off grid. Have to haul my water in. But when there is snow I can cross country ski for miles and miles starting right out side my door. You did not mention Bears and wolves...so maybe Montello is cool because what it does not have...bears wolves. :-) Stay safe in Alaska...and always pack!

Glad it helps. Typically I clean the chimney from the top down. You can remove the plate inside the stove and then collect the soot with a small ash pan or remove the stove as in the video and tape a bag to the pipe. The method in the video was purely to show the build-up clearly. Thx for watching.

Thanks very much. Appreciate it.

Thx Tim. It does add some functionality to this tiny cook top!

Thanks for watching! These little stoves are very efficient and can burn very hot causing little to no creosote buildup, but it's now a yearly routine for us for sure.

Hey there! YOU are the person I need to be talking to! I'm planning on moving into a 25' or 27' Airstream in March, and looking into heating solutions for the trailer. In your opinion, is the wood stove effective enough to keep pipes from freezing in very cold (below 20F) weather? Do you think, with skirting, that the heat radiates enough to keep the underside of the trailer above freezing? Thanks!

Great question. The grizzly really puts out some heat. I haven't tested it in this way. The skirting would be a great help. Like most winter camper dwellers they suggest additional heating under the belly. Even in my home my pips freeze if I do not prepare for extreme temps. I would say the grizzly would do much better then propane by far. If you ask me!

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f82qhpSBr6nVkqs.html check this one out!

Balsam Acres thanks for the reply! Good to know. It’s hard to get information about such a specific circumstance!

Keelan it really is. I was going to do an extensive overnite test but ended up breaking my arm so now testing is out of the question. Please share if you happen to find out more or if you test it for yourself..

Cleaned it this way just to be able to show the build up better. Wouldn't normally follow this method. Thanks for watching

That is exactly the strategy we use now as well. Works awesome!

Thanks for the kind words and the sub. Glad it helped with your decision. I think I've got the hot audio issue worked out now so fingers crossed. Enjoy the stove!

Thanks much, Gary. Glad you enjoyed the review.

Call the manufacturer and become a dealer

Very cool, Green Acres. We've really enjoyed ours. I'm hoping to have a retrospective building video up next week that shows the whole 12 day building process for our tiny abode. If you hit the notification bell beside the subscribe button you'll get a message once it's up. Thanks for the sub and comments and good luck on your cabin build!

Haha. We've got a number of these enamel kettles. Some vintage some new. I believe this one came from McNalley Robinson bookstore, here in Canada. Glad you enjoyed the review. Thanks for the comments and subscription!

Cool trick. Thanks for sharing!

Joan Pavlick I was wondering why he was pulling the brush..... tape a plastic bag around the bottom, go upon top and push the brush to the bottom twice and pull it out. Give soot ten minutes to settle, take bag off pipe and close it up, put pipe back on stove and Bob’s yer uncle.

Thanks a lot

It is yes. It's called an EcoFan you can get them at hardware stores or online. We did a video review on ours if you'd like to know more. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9uDdtOn26uafH0.html

I got these both at Canadian Tire up here in Canada, but you should be able to get them at most hardware stores. The poles are from a standard chimney sweep kit with a 6" brush and then I bought a 3" brush which is marketed as a pellet stove brush. I had to make an adapter to go from the larger threads on the pole to the smaller ones on the brush, but just drilled out the top of a large bolt and tapped it with the proper pellet stove brush threads. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Those look to be really nice setups. Look forward to hearing how it works out for you.

If he can convert the stove to burn pellets using a pellet basket he could get 2-12 hours of burn time depending on basket capacity. He just has to make he does it right...don't want to burn through the stove bottom.

I’m wondering how he figured out how to supplement heat on those cold snaps.... without getting up five times a night.

I've read that if you load it up with anthracite coal before you go to bed, it will make it for 6+ hours.

Yes. We supplement with a propane direct vent heater, not because this little guy cant keep us warm, but it just saves us from getting up in the night.

The stainless pipe just gets golden like that after a year of use or so. Thanks for watching

You bet. Thx for watching

It's one of those, "how long is a piece of string", kinda questions, I'm afraid. Tough to answer. The stove is extremely efficient so it produces a substantial amount of heat with one firebox full which is equivalent to maybe a third of a quartered 16" log. So two 16" logs may heat the place for a whole night quite easily. We burn the outdoor fire pit all winter and have a wood fireplace at home in the city as well so it's tough to say how much wood we burn here at the cabin. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching

Thanks Tom. I did it this way just for demonstration purposes so the soot would be easily visable to the camera and people could see the 2 yr build up, but I like your canvas bag idea. It IS fairly difficult to get to the roof on this little cabin so that would work great. Thx for the tip.

@@HayWoodsandWetlands, you are welcome! I owned and operated a chimney cleaning, restoration and rebuilding company for a couple decades. I cleaned many a stove chimney using the canvass bag technique. Just be careful you don't knock the chimney cap off. Normally, for the first time at the clients, I would secure the cap with three screws. In that way, future cleanings enabled me to brush the interior of the cap and tap it a few times with the top of the brush to dislodge any creosote! It was especially beneficial to clean from the bottom, when the roofs were icy!

Mine just sits on top, but you could throw a couple spot welds on there if you needed it to be more permanent.

I believe it was just 1/8" mild plate. Thanks for watching

No black oak around these parts, but you make a good point about whole log pieces. We'll give it a try next winter and see how long it will run for. Thx

Yup the garbage bag will be used next year for sure. This time I wanted to make a mess to show exactly how much had collected inside. It was an educated mess...Thanks for watching.

Well, something to look forward to then. ;)

LOL Pumpkin seed oil. 8 caps twice/day works well for me. That's a little less than a bottle/week, so I get 4 bottles from Puritan's with 6 free all for 56 bucks. A small price for a full night's sleep. I'm gunna start reducing that little by little to find my minimum. Just try one bottle (from anywhere) and see how it works for you.

and pee and pee... It just drops out, no more squirt.

@@richio1763 It works by reducing swelling of the prostate which puts pressure on your bladder (If you're male) Read this a long time ago and just had to say my 2 cents,peace lol

You guys got me laughing so hard that the tears ran down both my legs. I'm so grateful that prostrate is only a position to me, and prostate is just bad spelling, like libary. lol

Some, yup. I did the first burn outside on the ground and just got it raging hot for about an hour. After that it never stunk again. Good luck with it.

What do you think was offgassing off it? I have small birds thay can die on contact from teflon exposure and plasticisers, and can't have contained chemicals indoors other than what's trapped inside the chimney on its way out.

Yes the flue changed from that stainless steel colour to a brassy finish very quickly.

@@HayWoodsandWetlands It's beautiful! I was considering painting mine black but now I'm going to leave it and just let it do it's thing! :)

Oh if I could only get some Oak around here. I'm lucky to get the birch we use. Most of the wood around here is Aspen or Poplar. Not so good for the BTUs. We do damper down, but again, with that tiny firebox it really only lasts an hour and a half even dampened down. The stove height does make it hard to keep the floor warm, but is necessary once the double bed is pulled out for safe clearance. The cabin is only 96 sq. ft. and ever inch is considered in the design. I installed a fan in the roof that helps circulate immensely and the ecofan on top helps as well. Thanks for your comments!

No not a difficult task at all. It's made of brass so very soft metal. I used a pair of pliers to twist the tabs going through the little holes in the top. Once those were twisted they'll pop out through the holes one by one. I wasn't able to do it without completely destroying the brass railing so you'll want to make sure that's how you want it before getting in there with the pliers. Hope it helps. Thanks for watching!

@Wildlands1 Patent Pending haha

No interior box. I just boxed out a safe space between the rafters and then outside used a 3" Simpson PelletVent PRO, DSA Roof Flashing 7/12-12/12 Pitch, 3PVP-F12DS and the 3" Simpson PelletVent PRO, Storm Collar, 3PVP-SC for the install. Then just ran the double walled Cubic Mini pipe up through that and insulated around it inside using rockwool insulation. Outside, I wrapped the 3" pipe in more rockwool and wrapped that with a 5" stovepipe to hold it in. Supposedly that keeps the exhaust from cooling too fast and causing excessive creosote in the last few feet of chimney. I was also then able to just buy a standard 5" rain cap/spark arrest for cheap at the local hardware to cap it off. Thanks for the comments!

I made up a sheet metal box for going through the roofand lined it with mineral wool. Works like a charm

Thanks Gary. I was doing it this way just to show on camera the build up after two years of occasional use. It was for "dramatic effect" haha. Thanks for the tip and comments.

Explained at 16:26. THx for watching.

Yup totally possible. This is how wood fired hot tubs work. The heat creates a natural Venturi that pulls the cool water through the copper and out the other end. Can be used to heat a tub or a hot water heater full of water or whatever. That said, once you’ve got water in the pipes you’ll need to keep it from freezing if you’re in that kinda climate. For me it’d be more work to drain the lines every time I leave for a few days than the benefits of on demand hot water would provide for about 6 months out of the year. Good luck with your build!

I'm not sure the Grizz would give me all that much longer a burn. I have actually installed a propane direct vent heater that we put on only at night on very cold evenings which holds the temp at a comfortable range until we get up the next morning and can stoke the mini again. Thanks for watching.

Hay Woods and Wetlands And where is the video for that? (Wink)

I don't think so. It's the burn time that is the issue and how long the stove holds the heat. A slightly bigger mini would only be slightly better. But keep in mind that we're in pretty extreme temps like -40 degrees at times and well below freezing for most of the winter.

You bet. Makes the fire far more efficient by re burning the gasses which would normally go up the chimney as stated. Cheers.

Honestly the free windows and door we got are leaky enough to allow sufficient airflow. Haha. I do intend at some point to give the stove a dedicated hose to the exterior for air. Thanks for watching

I find the Cub has no problem actually heating the 94 sq feet and large lofted ceiling. I suspect that it could heat a much larger space, but it's just the maintaining of that heat that becomes a chore in the deepest of cold temps here on the Canadian prairies. I could see the insulation of a fifth wheeler loosing heat even faster than our 2x4 fiberglass insulated walls. I know we built the cabin specifically because our camper trailer could not keep up with the demands of sustaining us in the minus 20 degree temps using the existing propane furnace installed. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Not sure, Katherine. I just tipped mine over which seemed to clear any debris that had collected on the plate at the collar of the flue. Didn't see any screws to remove, but could have missed it.

Yes the upper side plates come out... I bought new stainless screws at the hardware store as my original where bound tight and did not remove well.

@@PlanePreacher thank you!

katherine mcilwain btw, my stove is the grizzly, not sure if the cub is different. My only drawback is my primary wood is elm and elm creates a lot of ashes. On a normal work day, I have to clean ashes before the morning fire, and again before an evening fire. If I am home during a cold day, I am removing hot ashes two or three times more during the day.

Yes, I just cut it out of a 1/4" steel plate.

The rail is just brass so it bends easily, but don't expect to ever use it again haha. Yeah the plact is about 1/4" thick, but a 1/8" would probably be fine as well.

@@HayWoodsandWetlands thats what I was thinking..Hate to destroy it, but would rather have the room to do light cooking as well..thanks

I'm not an insurance salesmen. I have no idea. I do know that these stoves are not W.E.T.T. certified and are listed by the company as for "recreational use". You'll have to check with local authorities for your region for more details.

I think the plate is an extra 8" off the one side and an extra 2" or so off the other side and the front so maybe 21" x 10" all together? At zero degrees Celsius (32F) the cabin probably only takes an hour or so to get up to a livable temp if you keep the fire stoked the whole time and maximize the heat. That said, the cabin will continue to radiate cold from it's walls and contents for a few hours past that so you need to maintain the fire for a while before it will hold a consistent heat. Once all the "stuff" is warmed up too the cabin holds a pretty decent thermal mass, but it's penetrating the hard board walls to actually warm the insulation that takes a bit of time. Hope that makes sense. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@HayWoodsandWetlands Thanks for the Good Info.! I have this stove in a converted cargo trailer to camper - The little stove does Good job but wished it held onto fire bit longer - Considering the the Grizzily model for this reason - Really like your plate steel mod, I'll be doing that - Cheers my friend-

Yup. A nice hot burning fire should have pretty clear smoke.

Thanks for the comments. The stove is incredibly efficient and burns the coals down to almost nothing. Clean out really depends on how cold it is and how long we've been burning for. There is a bafle that's removable and yes, you can sweep it from the top down, but I thought this method would give a better visual representation. Thanks for watching!

@@HayWoodsandWetlands I truly enjoyed it. lol Stay warm!

@@HayWoodsandWetlands Oh, yeah, and even though I arise to a call from nature far more often than I care to answer, I still need a longer burning stove. I so appreciate your assessment. Thanks!

My pleasure. Glad it helped.

THat would be pretty slick. Although I went with the wood stove so that the fuel would be free and if I went with pellets I'd be back to purchasing fuel again. Thanks for watching

@@HayWoodsandWetlands You can make your own pellets! There are a lot of videos about this. I think the investment in equipment is worth it.

Yup this method was for educational purposes so we could see exactly what had accumulated.