June 2, 2011

Steady Stove

I was researching camping equipment before out last expedition and came across this site that had a rather clever way to secure you stove in the ground to prevent it rocking and falling over.

Whist setting up the stove by Lake Llyn y Fan Fawr, I decided to give it a go, the ground was quite soft so the stove was quite un stable. I was quite impressed with how this simple idea made the stove more steady but I couldnt help try and improve on the concept. What I cam up with was to secure the stove from 3 points forming a triangle as in the picture below. This created a comletely steady stove, that hardly moved at all. I had complete confidence that a slight gust of wind wasnt going to knock the stove over, taking that nights dinner with it!


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