wall tent or smoke house

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[Viking]

make sure the chimney pipe goes up above the top of the tent to avoid down draft and when you start a fire make sure to create a good draft in the stove.

[Barracuda]

X2

people seem to forget to have a long enough stack so the riseing column creates a vacume . nearly all the woodstoves that i see that fill tents do so because of to short a smoke stack.

[Deadshot]

Elbows=$hitty draw
Use to have them & have since gone with a straight pipe. Just moved the asbestos ring to the ceiling & had the gable hole sewn up.

[jeeper]

I prefer a straight smoke stack as well ! No hassles with havng to support the piping etc !


But as you have one that exits the side of the tent and arent probably wanting to cut a new hole into the roof , you can make sure you dont get smoked out by making sure you have enough draw from your chimney ! The longer your exhaust piping Ie the higher it is above the stove the better your stove will draw the exhaust out and draw fresh air in , thereby eliminating your problem !

Rule of thumb , make sure your exhaust is 1 ft higher then your tent ridge line !


Bruce

[Statler]

Could be a few things that are causing you some grief. You said that you had a 5" stove pipe on your stove? Don't they have a 6" flue opening? Reason why I ask is that if you have a reducer installed at the collar of the stove it could be causing enough of a restriction there to produce a slight positive pressure within the stove to cause the excessive smoking. This would be especially apparent on start up or with a low smokey "cool" fire. Also, as stated by others, your smoke stake could be to short resulting in a poor draft. Also if you don't have your suppy air vent open enough you could be experiencing a backdraft condition in where air is being sucked back down your stove pipe again creating a positive pressure differential within the firebox resulting in excessive smoking within the living area. Hope this helps.

[dime]

I talked to the guy who owns Kettle Valley stoves and he said every elbow decreases the draw by 20%, so if you have two elbows, that is a 40% hit right off the bat. We use a straight stovepipe through the roof, never had draw problems with a 5" pipe on an old airtight stove (and we use a 6-5" reducer because the hole in the tent is only 5").

[7mm]

Thanks for all your information. I will try to increase the length of the sove pipe and hopefully that will work so once again thanks
regards 7mm

[anglo-saxon]

Not sure if this is applicable to wood stoves, too, but in Alberta when it was very cold out and I was lighting my living room fire, it seemed that the cold air would sit in the chimney and "damp" any attempt of the smoke to escape via the usual route. A couple of times I had a waft of smoke come back into the living room. So I began the habit of "priming" the chimney by burning a few sheets of newspaper first to force hot air up and so get a better draw when making the fire. I never had a problem after I started doing that. Seems to me it would likely work for a wood stove.