stove or buddy heater?

[lungdeflator]

I like the heat the stove kicks out, and it doesn't put out any light. but the buddy heater is just easier to have in the house, doesn't take up much room and won't smoke us out. what do you guys use?

[Mike89]

stove

[jentz]

Wood stove in a perm.buddy in the insulated clam summit.Buddys have good and bad points.The worse is moisture and the second is the fuel tank.Course I have a wood stack at home and heat a garage with it, so the little potbelly always has a ready supple of fuelin the perm.

[lungdeflator]

Are there small stoves available commercially? like at fleet or something? i notice alot of guys make their own stove, but i don't have the tools to make one.

[mrklean]

Ive got both this will be my first year running a wood stove temp control is another issue with stoves

[Early Riser]

I have used a buddy heater in my 4X6 perm and it will shut off occasionally from the low O2 sensor on the unit. Then it will get cold in the house while you are waiting and fumbling with it to relight it. Sometimes I used to leave the door cracked a bit and that often did the trick, unless the wind, draft or air pressure wrecked havoc on this plan.

I love everything about wood and wood heat in my cabin and home, just not so much in a spear house when, like deer hunting, I like to be highly focussed on the task at hand, with no distractions.

I have a small propane stove in my perm with piping and chimney vented out the roof. It is a Nuway stove. I love it. It has been very reliable, and I can control the heat easily and leave it alone all day, minus a few minor flame adjustments now and again, leaving most of the day to do nothing but hunt/spear uninterrupted, until I decide to throw something on the stove to heat up for lunch.

I use a big buddy in my portables when it is cold, and my regular buddy heater when is is relatively warm. They never go out in the portables, and provide steady, reliable heat in those situations. I hate sunflower heaters in almost any scenario due to several experiences of not feeling absolutely tip-top after a long stint in the portables.

[Dorkfish]

You can pick up a small wood or propane stove from L and M I also think that fleet farm carries the same product

[lungdeflator]

I just looked at the Nuway stoves on their HSOforum. Thats what Im looking for, something small and compact. There wouldnt be a moisture issue with the propane stoves if they are vented to outside right?

[Dorkfish]

That I don't know I have always used a buddy heater

[merkman]

Propane is the only way to go for me....

I understand the charm of wood heat... just not the actual use...

I have a forced air furnace out of a popup camper built into my spear shack and I love it... it took a little tinkering to get the bugs worked out but it can go 4 plus days on one battery charge..

Set it and forget it. There is something nice about walking into a warm spearshack in the morning!!!

The other thing that is nice is... the temp is the exact same on the floor as it is on the ceiling.

But that is just me....

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[Dorkfish]

Yes I bet the beavers and muskrats love have a nice warm den to sleep in in the winter time.

[Early Riser]

there is no moisture problem with the nuway stoves as they are vented to the outside. Set it, leave it, and you are in business.

[Gordie]

Propane is the easiest to control and set up with but I used to use it in the perm shack but went to wood something about the heat a wood stove throws out and besides it reminds me of when my dad and I use to sit in his shack.

I have a buddy heater for those really cold days and will fire up both if need be but usually the wood stove is plenty enough.

[Early Riser]

The things I like about wood heat in a fish house are the nostalgia like you mentioned, the smokey smells and the sounds. With propane you have good even heat all day without any tinkering around, but with wood you have no artificial hissing noise - just the wood crackling sounds before getting down to the quiet heat producing coals.

I can't rule out building a house for my spearing up north with a wood stove for heat. Unlike most places in the metro, a guy can walk to just about any shoreline within the Superior National Forest areas, grab a little birch bark and hack off enough dry pine with a small saw to start a nice fire. Throw a few hunks of maple in the sled to build a nice coal bed, and there you have it.

NuWay also makes a small wood stove.