Keep in mind that I've only used it for a couple weeks, that being said, so far so good kzfaq.infoUgkxAU9pOCSV9Y5JprooHvfxTpOrt4hx8uRM . Using it at 8 ft. by 8ft. deer blind that is insulated. I have to keep the door cracked for it to get enough air to burn, but that is very likely the wood I've used. Much better quality than I expected for the price. Now if I can just take it easy in the beginning it won't be 90 degrees in my blind. All in all it seems like a keeper.

_“Well, isn’t this just civilized”_ 🔥🍜✨ 😎🤙 You are a class act Foresty!

I have a larger home built wood stove in my truck camper. It is the ONLY source of heat. Have been using it for two years and love, love, love it. Takes only a few minutes to heat up my small space and because it's dry heat I no longer have to deal with condensation. I let it burn out when I go to bed. I don't mind sleeping in the cold buried under a super warm sleeping bag. Love lighting it up in the morning while I have my first cup of coffee. An Oregon nomad 🌲❤🐺🐶❤🌲

Hey Forest, my friends Elsa and Barron have been using the Cubic Mini for a few years in their Scamp. They've found compressed hardwood chunks can last up to 4 hours per burn. Enjoy the warm heat, I'm currently sitting next to my wood stove in the vintage camper at my mountain property. Coffee is ready! Thanks for all the awesome vids ~ Brian

Working in a federal department that deals with invasive species, I am so very glad you mentioned not carrying wood from place to place. The spread of invasive species is very, very dangerous for forests and the ecosystem. Burn the wood you find locally!

You’ve got the coolest van build of anyone on yt, so many van life influencers try to make their vans aesthetic and they just seem so non-functional, your van has the perfect balance of usefulness and cozy atmosphere.

Foresty Forest, He lives in a van Forest Foresty, he is the man for climbing up mountains and cooking great food Foresty Forest, is an exceptional dude.

I agree with Simon that the Cubic Mini Stove (CMS) should be Used mostly in the Woods/Back Country because it’s hard to be Stealth in the Cities when there’s Smoke pluming from your Van. Moreover, People will become upset when they see you Chop down their neighborhood trees for firewood. Also, this Relationship between Simon and the CMS must be Serious and wasn’t a “One Night Stand” because he cleared out a Whole Drawer for the CMS’s stuff.

I was dubious about a wood stove in a van but I'm now sold! Haha! I grew up in a house in rural Vermont in which the only heat source was a potbelly stove in the living room. Feeding it on winter nights was an every 4 hour process. My 2 sisters and I had one night a week when it was our "chore" to keep the stove going. But there was one night when my younger sister decided she didn't want to get up again and absolutely STUFFED the stove with all of the wood that should have lasted all night. She was only 9, so that seemed logical. In the morning we all woke up sweating with our covers kicked off. My parents ran downstairs to discover the iron stove was glowing red! The wall paper in the room was peeling, the rug was smoking, and anything melt-able was melted. So of course my sister was never on stove duty again, which I think is what she wanted. lol

Forest, you're so thoughtful the way you put your videos together, the little things you remember to include, and I just wanted to say thank you, I love your content.

Nothing says, "Keep the home fires burning" like a glowing wood stove. Your van is a masterpiece of ingenuity, functionality and personality. The difference between a house and a home is that one reflects who we are and the other is just a roof over our head ---whether they be on wheels or cement. The shot of you preparing the mushrooms with your wood stove burning brightly behind you and your plant sitting of the shelf was picture perfect "Home Sweet Home".

"Civilized" ?! It's elegant!! Mushrooms in your chicken dinner, beautiful lavender colored flowers in a lovely pot, an awesome wood stove, and all your knowledge and skills! I can see this van project evolving into a sweet tiny house some day!! 🌼

Mix the ash in water and use it to clean the stove window. Sounds odd but it works really well.

I really am enjoying these “between the summits” videos. I know you’re channel is mainly geared towards that and I ALWAYS look forward to them, but I had recently wondered what you did between those videos. I guess more of these behind the scenes view of van life and the prepping for those adventures was just what I was curious about. Maybe it’s just your demeanor or your approach to things but I’ve liked the last few videos. There’s a reality there, that most of us non mountain climbers, can relate to. Maybe I’m speaking for myself and myself alone there, but I appreciate these videos and wanted to say thanks for all of your content shared!

Best way to clean the stove glass window is to rub it with newspaper and ashes. Works like a charm.

I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF THIS 'FIRST BURN' VIDEO--- YOUR EXCITEMENT IS PALPABLE. AND..I'M SO GLAD YOU DID GET A WOOD STOVE- THEY MAKE FOR VERY GOOD COMPANY :)

Nicely done. I'll point this episode out to my Dad: he'll be very interested in the woodstove install. At 84 he built a camper (murphy bed; kitchenette) from a custom built cargo trailer (7' interior height; door windows) he pulls around with his SUV for camping and oil painting in the Ontario wilderness. (The rear door drop down serves as a screened in platform for his easel). Now 86, he has been talking about adding the same mini woodstove you just installed!

Theme song is back!!! I thought the wood stove was overkill, but when he described it in terms of giving him more versatility, it definitely makes sense.

omg the intro jingle is BACK!!! the window often soots up on the start then clears up as the heat gets going and there is just coals left... but yeah it is never pristinely clean :D agree on the salt n pepper. all I use as well

God it's so gratifying to see you finally get a wood stove in your home on wheels. I can only imagine how great it must feel for you

Thank you for including the Fahrenheit temp for those of us in the States. 😉👍🏾 BTW, your videos are GREAT; always a treat to watch and learn. Be safe out there.

I'm glad you get to live this life mate, thank you for sharing it with us

Foresty, I’d recommend a cheap set of welders gloves for the fire to catch or move pieces that touch the glass or are at risk of falling, I’ve got a set for my wood stove and it’s saved the carpet more than ones Infront of the hearth. Beautiful video as always, love it! 🧡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Does anyone else think his edits are really good? 👍👏

"Well isn't this just civilized!" I loved it. The stove works great and dinner looked awesome!

One of the few drawbacks to a mini wood burner is that it only burns for an hour or so. Increase you time with a bit larger pieces. They burn slower. I would adjust the external stack height to the same as the max vent and make the extension removable with a cap. Home sweet toasty home Foresty. Nice job. Cheers from Vancouver eh!

Great video as always! I use wood to heat my house and am not an expert but a double walled stove pipe may help. Use soft wood to start the fire and then move to hard wood if it is available in your local area as it will increase your burn time. Dampen some crunched up newspaper with some water and dip it in the ash to clean the creosote off the glass. Get the shield installed ASAP for the ash that will come out of the stove is an extreme fire hazard. Take care and be safe!

How cool is this. Even if it’s something you just have to use outside it’s an addition to a van build that makes this unique. Everyone’s got a heater, dc to dc charger, fridge of some sort. But a wood stove, it’s not a home on wheels it’s a cottage !

Somebody has probably pointed this out but the best thing to use on that pipe up near your roof would be header tape (used to isolate exhaust headers from starters and stuff in the engine compartment.) Also, you could isolate your counters with some common ceramic tiles ..like they use in kitchens. They even make corner molding so you could overlap the edges and it just attaches with a special glue. Also too: if you put a flue dampener in your chimney pipe you can control the up draft better and do a slower burn with less heat loss.

My girlfriend and I were just climbing up a mountain in the middle of the night to get to a hut on Vancouver Island. haha halfway through she said how much she appreciates that you're able to do this alone so often!

"Isn't this just civilized." I had to pause the video I was laughing so hard, because I was thinking at the beginning of the video that you are the first man to cook a steak atop a wood burning stove in the middle of a full moon night and make it look not only absolutely beautiful but completely homey. Wilderness civilized. 😎

I would suggest cutting your wood to fit "north/south" in the firebox. If the wood is loaded perpendicular to the door opening, it will be much less likely to roll out than if you load it parallel to the door.

Hmmm... I wonder if you can bake cookies under the stove on it's platform. I love how the fan works by heat.

Close your damper for longer burn time. You are running that thing wide open. That’s why your going through wood so fast. Close them 1/2 - 3/4 of the way

Forestry Forest really enjoyed your post. Keeping it real and genuine. Nice how you knocked out some chicken soup for one. "Well, isn't this just civilized." Yes, indeed, very civilized!!

what works best with my cubic mini, is compressed sawdust logs, slow clean burn. Just crack em in half to whichever length you want. Also, ive seen a wider plate of steel placed on the the stove top to give ya a bigger cooking top. cozy days!

Classic natural cooking is the way to go! Especially in the winter time. The warmth lingers around.

Foresty Forest is a true gem. I wish everyday I could do what you do. You're living the dream, my man. Stay safe!!

I'm amazed that I was excited to see this upload to find out how it went. For such a low key channel, Foresty, you really have excellent content.

Officially in a new era of FF. Love it!

Next project: "My own swimming pool in a van for hot summers.".

No one else on KZfaq is doing it like you forest, love it

That's a nifty stove. Good job. Almost makes me wish I lived in a cold climate. Almost!

You need a Japanese egg pan to cook on it. Fits perfectly and rectangular.

Once the roof boot is installed I reckon it will get to at least 23c in the van. Great job Foresty 👍

Nice! All you need now is a smoking pipe, red velvet robe, and a hardback book.

Milwaukee makes a battery powered shop vac, perfect for getting all of that little stuff off the floor and you could vacuum the ashes out and just walk out and dump them!

Gotta admit that I was relieved to see you do your first burn burn off outside!! It's a portable campfire/cook stove! Waiting for it to cool enough to carry it back inside does require patience and timing! Looks like you've protected your van interior from the radiant heat with extended heat shields. Well done. 1 extremely important safety feature is to KNOW THE WOOD YOU ARE BURNING. Many trees contain toxic resins that will absolutely kill you when you are burning the wood. Some species are toxic enough to cause violent illness even when burning it outdoors so, it definitely cannot be burned in an interior stove. KNOW THE WOOD YOU ARE BURNING is a Caution for EVERYONE. Good luck and enjoy the warmth and cooking versatility of your little stove!

Hardwood requires less cleaning of internals and exhaust. Outside air intake for the combustion area means it's not forced to pull from the nooks and crannies of the van for fresh oxygen.

Forest what you can use to protect things around your Wood burning stove is a fiberglass welding blanket by cutting it up and placing or stuffing where it's needed. As for the inside roof you could use those tin decorative ceiling panels with a piece or two of the welding blanket In between the cloth ceiling and decorative panel. I have used welding blankets for the same reason, I also use them when I am welding a vehicle so the interior does not catch fire from the sparks Having two heat sources is a great idea you just never know when one will not work right. Better sorry then freeze lol

It's also very nice to see flicking flame and feeling heat radiating from it. I lived in a few cottages and house with a fire place/stove. Makes the winter a nicer time. When the stove is cold, I wet a sheet of newspaper and give the glass door a rub for a good clean. Liquid household cleaning spray helps gets the stubborn soots off.

Love that you added a cubic mini! Your #vanlife comment when you opened the back door had me rolling in laughter. I love that you have thought about transporting wood and invasive species! Love the slide out tray idea. Keeps on cookin!! Keeping it real!

I love it ! So damn cool to be warm with that primeval glow of a fire along with it , there is something so very basic to relaxation in the act of sitting near a fire and receiving it's warmth while watching the embers glow . To do it indoors is smart and comfortable when the weather is less than hospitable outside .

THAT INTRO IS MY JAM ❤

Don’t ever change that intro song, its perfect! Missed it

I work in the heating installation industry. The idea of cutting wood and use it in your mini wood burner is great in theory, but practical it won't bring you the results you want. We always recommend to our clients that fresh cut wood has to be stored in a dry area, possibly outside in the open, covered for at least a year. So the wood is dry and can give you the optimal warmth. Fresh cut/not dry wood doesn't burn nicely, gives out very little warmth + produces a great deal of soot/residue , which is bad for your wood burner. I recommend you looking into saw-dust bricks or already dried up wood birch(expensive but gives a lot of heat) or beech is great for wood burners like yours. Softwoods are not recommended, especially for mini burners because of their high resin levels. Which means high heat for a short time.

You're now obligated to make pancakes on the stove at some point this winter.

Stove great to save cash. And relaxing on 🔥 cold winters night!!!. Have a blessed weekend stock up .poor bc water food running out little gas

Glad to see you burn off the factory coating outside your van, love the smell of wood smoke in the morning! 🔥💨🌅

Hey Forest! You should have a search for a Tamagoyaki Japanese Omelette Pan. They are rectangular shaped and may fit on the stove better than a round one. You could probably find on at T&T in Calgary or online of course.

You do such a great job, FF. Every video tells a story. So well done.

Been watching since the mini van days this new van build has come so far, so sick!

So useful,that’ll help you through winter.....foresty forest has a wood burner in his van.....forestry forest 🙂👍🏻

I have a cubic mini onboard my sailing boat here in Sweden. I too wish I’d have got the grizzly instead of the cub, just for the burn time, an hour is as long as I’m able to keep the burn going. But it is by far the best way of heating the boat. Nice dry heat in an extreme damp environment . Warren s/y Legend 👍⛵️⚓️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇸🇪

Sweet lunar eclipse shot, Foresty

I love the new stove. Close the vent holes all the way at night, that’ll give you the best chance at getting through the night. Close the damper if there is one. Then the fire will essentially smolder all night.

With the stove in, it looks very comfy and homie feel.

Make sure you focus on hardwoods. That will help with the residue on the window as well. You can also pick up compressed (very dense) saw-dust bricks. They will burn 4 to 6 hours, and they burn clean.

Good job foresty...by the way, when the stove is burning well, you can close the air intake completly, than it is going to last much longer... Cheers from germany

a 5 gallon bucket would work great for holding that ready to burn wood an keep that mess down to a minimum, nice work tho there handy lil stoves.

Salt and pepper are both all you need for a steak, but try citric acid! Season it with all 3 and then let it rest for a bit (10min) before cooking it. I've found citric acid to make quite a beneficial improvement!

For me drifting off to sleep with a fire burning is about as peaceful and comfortable as it gets. It truly is the cowboy TV. Watching a fire and enjoying almost free heat is rewarding for sure.

amazing to think how far the build has come. From an empty shell to four by four luxury. 😁

Just when I think you have a great setup in the van you make it even better! The wood stove is a perfect addition to your home. Your videos are well put together and I’m enjoying your adventures. Thank you Foresty! I’m looking forward to your next video.

A coat of dish detergent on the glass will cut down on the soot collection. I carry a small supply of untreated lumber scrap for small campfires when I'm traveling. If you are using it for heat, you can add bricks or rocks to the top and they will radiate the Heat they collect after the fire has died down

The way you live a wood burning stove makes sense.

congrats on a successful install and first burn. Transformed the van into a cozy winter home. ;-)

Well done sir. Try a Rubbermaid tote with lid to carry the wood in. Will also help with keeping the insects to a minimum. Also, maybe consider a silcone fireplace mat for the floor. Just in case.

To help keep the glass clean, collect some of the ash, mix with a little water to create paste, use to scrub glass to get the soot stains off 👍

Nothing like a warm cracking stove in your home. Van home better than most live in the cities.

The progress you've made is incredible! Keep cranking out the content!

Have you got a carbon monoxide alarm? Also, a magnetic stove thermometer would be beneficial.

Hi from New Zealand... We love the way you roll peace and light.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS, oh so COZY and YUMMY! Meanwhile…in the back of my head, take that Ninja strapped in the corner there. Forest is about to throw down with mini wood stove meals. I’m so excited for you. Thanks for sharing!

What a great set up. Well done . Does the flue pipe have a damper in it? If not maybe get one for it. I camp in the winter and with a pipe damper and from stove damper ,you can control the heat that is escaping out the flue. More heat for inside. Hard wood is the best. You can also mount the fan on the flue pipe for more room on the stove. Flue temperature gauge is also very helpful. All the best.

Great addition Foresty. I am sure you already know this or its been said already, but wood species and thickness will affect burn time. In my full size wood burning stove, on a cold night I throw in a few larger diameter pieces (or a round) of a hardwood species like maple and that will burn long and slow until morning. Wood stoves are so great just for ambiance and the dry heat, but take a while to dial in and learn the nuances and appetite of the particular diesign in use. Enjoy! Thank you for the amazing videos.

So warm and cozy! We love seeing Ecofan helping spread warmth in your van!

Your resourcefulness is commendable and you will inspire many to customize their space to suit them better. Its such a positive influence.

So awesome to see this! I already bought all the components of a tiny stove (different brand) for my van, and just watching your process helped me immensely for my own use and install. Thanks so much for your posts. You help alot of folks.

You should install a little door on the outside of the van that goes to a wood storage compartment on the inside of the van near the stove. Easy, low mess access to wood.

Jasper Sunshine’s cubic mini doesn’t even fry his star wars poster on the wall behind the stove, or his countertop. But in your small space, it might be a hanging jacket drying out, that falls victim to the stove or pipe. Very hot addition to your home. 🤙🍁

That’s epic. Looks so cozy and convenient for multitasking and quit resourceful.

The wood fireplace is amazing. Love that you got the battery power chain saw and able to harvest some fallen tree. The spinning fan from the heat is a nice nugget of eye catching toy that’s useful! Stay warm sir!

Hey Forrest ! i have the same stove , had it for a couple years . It performs best when you use hard wood and once you get a good coal base stuff it full and dial both dampers down ,and you can get about 3 hours of burn out of it . Cheers and enjoy the stove from the North Shuswap

Bad ass, nothing like the cozy dry heat of a wood burner

To clean door glass just crumble some newspaper and rub glass prior to starting up fire. Have always loved the intro song, its makes me smile! Safe travels dude.

Why is the smoking coming out of that van? No, worries. That is just Foresty, Forest, he lives in a van.

You could use wood pellets like Steve did during his 8 weeks in a tent. I guess they have less ash and higher BTUs then wood. Might be worth it for ya.

Where there's a wood stove there's gonna be dirt... Ashes and barky bits. But nothing beats a good burning stove. Stay warm buddy!

Congratulation of your little stove. Got it at the right time. With all the weather in your part of the world getting very cold. Can't cook on the diesel heater. But the wood stove keeps you warm and you save on energy cost by cooking on it.. Keep safe