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    How much firewood for Fly in trip

    Have a Tahr Ballot block this weekend and a MIA tent courtesy of North Canterbury NZDA (FYI if you are NZDA you can hire this out). Haven't used the tent stove, and the block does not have firewood.

    How much are people bringing in per day/week (7 nights)? How are you transporting it? Has anyone tried briquettes?

    Any tips or tricks? Things to watch out for.

    Has anyone tried coal in there one? No go?

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    I use 20 litter buckets which double as ok seats
    My hot tent stove is a lot smaller that your one will be and I use 10 litres per night

    All pre split in a range of sizes for fast or slow burn
    I usually get to camp after dark
    Fire up the stove to cook, heat and dry things out then go to bed and let the fire die
    Light it for 30 minutes in the morning to get going then out the door when it's still dark
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    20 L buckets with the lids on properly are good for filling gaps in the heli pods

    Also a good size for head skins on the flight out
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    We took cut Mac stacked in heavy cardboard boxex.
    Ours are stacked in the RH side of the picture. Our weather was good and we still used 4 boxes each weighing about 20kg we to

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    We took 4-5 boxes and used it all

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    coal is more energy dense than wood
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    Quote Originally Posted by gonetropo View Post
    coal is more energy dense than wood
    I don't think these fires will handle coal they glow red hot with wood.

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    Has anyone used coal in their MIA as a supplementary feed?

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    A small bag of BBQ briquettes might be useful also

    I dropped a couple in my tiny Titanium stove on the trip last month and it was still warm on the bottom 8 hours later

    But I would only use them very sparingly
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    Next trip I'm going to add a foam layer to the bucket lids from an old foam sleeping matt
    Glue it inside the rebate
    Reckon they will be more comfortable seats and are just the right height

    Anything on a fly in that has multiple uses is always good
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    Quote Originally Posted by akaroa1 View Post
    Next trip I'm going to add a foam layer to the bucket lids from an old foam sleeping matt
    Glue it inside the rebate
    Reckon they will be more comfortable seats and are just the right height

    Anything on a fly in that has multiple uses is always good
    Which is why we used a heavy cardboard box when empty you can burn and more room in the chopper and they stack better in the chopper.

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