Try A Stove Snowshoe

Description

Ever use a stove in the snow in winter? You have to make some kind of platform, or dig down so the stove doesn't disappear into the snow. This video shows using a "snowshoe" for your stove, even a very hot stove. Now you can carve a shelf out of a snowdrift to cook on if you want to. More blogs and gear at http://wildernessinnovation.com

Tags: cook,stove,snowshoe,winter,survival,training,gear,snowdrift,Camping

Video Transcription

we're recording now good let us know perry peacock with wilderness over quick tip today if you're out in the woods like we are solicited back in here a lot of times you may want to take a little lot of cook stove or something to cook your meals on everything you've always got to do something with your stove to keep it from sinking down into the snow while you're cooking so we have a little idea here for you it's a it's a little uh snow shoe for your stove it's no stove well stuffs no stove Stosh you that's like a tongue twister so I'm kind of joke anyway let me show you how this thing works same thing as a snowshoe we're distributing the body weight over a large surface area so we're doing the same thing here where we're using this expanded metal you can get it in steel or aluminum and so we're doing is taking the footprint of the stove like this or expanding it over a larger area so we've got support on the on the snow surface so if we lay that down there and say we take our firebox stove that's on our site here we can put that down on there and that gives some support to it and when when the heat kind of melts the middle part away the edges will still support the stove so that'll give you kind of a nice platform ok so we've we've been having that we've had this stove running for about an hour now we've just been kind of melting snow for water that sort of thing just kind of keeping this thing going well we're doing some other camp stuff filming some other videos and you can see it's supporting its supporting everything very well yeah you know otherwise this they're not stove would have sunk clear down into the snow by now so this thing works really great to help keep your keep your stove up you know when you're cooking in the snow one other thing would be if you're out somewhere like you got some deep drifted snow and that you could actually carve a little shelf and put this on there and you could be be like cooking on a countertop or something

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