New Upload - Next to No Smoke Burn - DIY 2.4 gallon waste basket steel backpack tent wood stove - portable with baffle design

2.5 gallon tent backpacking wood stove from steel waste basket trash can with baffle - no smoke burn

I need to change out the popcorn tin bucket lid as the door - too flimsy - with the pot lid I have left around. The wood stove makes the infamous rocket draft sound - although my camera video was not recording the sound accurately - it kept breaking up. Maybe since the sound is more of a "wall of sound" - it challenges the frequency matching too much. Anyway the draft is excellent; once the paper and any wetness burns off then there is no smoke from the chimney! The stove gets way too hot to touch. So I need to make a stand for legs and to have a platform for boiling water or cooking. I have a heavy metal liner that covers 2/3rds of the stove - the bottom.

There are a ton of DIY wood stove vids on youtube - mainly either rocket stoves or rocket mass heater stoves or 5 gallon bucket stoves or duct "end cap" stoves - and a few beer keg stoves and a couple popcorn tin bucket stoves - and of course ammo stoves - and I saw one dutch oven wood stove - and a trash can stove - and 1 gallon paint can stoves and 1 gallon coffee can stoves (both hobo and rocket stoves).

I put a baffle in this - but it's just a partial baffle - to maintain and enhance the draft. A baffle is a shelf right below the exhaust hole for the chimney duct flue pipe. So the baffle forces the flame to turn back on itself for a more full burn and more heat retained in the stove. I am very pleased that the stove has next to no smoke and the rocket draft uptake sound - so the baffle is definitely working to force the flame for a secondary burn. 2.5 gallons should be small enough for a big backpack or bicycle pack - so this wood stove will be portable for camping on the fly. All the parts were salvaged and free - so I need some better parts for bolts, etc.