New elk camp! With tent stove question...

[MuleySniper]

My dad and I picked up our new tent for our special draw Oregon elk hunt this November. We researched pretty well and decided the Cabelas Big Horn III would suit our needs best. We set it up for the first time today after getting it last Thursday.  It ended up being a fair deal, Cabelas was offering a $150 gift card with every purchase over $500. They also had a promotion going by offering two cots with purchase of certain tents including the BH-III. They are pretty nice aluminum frame cots too that were valued at $69 bucks each. Anyway, now we are in search of material to fab up our own stove for the tent. We have most of the material and are capable welders, but are having trouble finding a light gauge 12" pipe for the main part of the stove. Soooo, if any of you have any ideas, or know the whereabouts on where to find material for the stove body (prefer round stock but open to ideas) please let me know!! Thanks
MS

[Elknut1]

 You need 6" pipe at most for good draw/vacuum for a woodstove for a tent that size. 12" is too much volume!

  ElkNut1

[MuleySniper]

I was looking for the 12" diameter for the stove box not the chimney pipe I guess I should of clarified that.
MS

[Elknut1]

 That makes sense! (grin) You did mention "main body"!!! I should have read it better!!! Good Luck!

  ElkNut1

[MuleySniper]

This is what I envision building..... Not sure now though, this stove is only $169 bucks

[Slenk]

I would buy that one .
Some places like Sportman Warehouse used to sell a kit that you could make a stove out of a small barrel. They worked good.
Slenk

[MuleySniper]

Actually that stove as is costs $219. I can build a better stove for less thats "if" I can find the right material.
MS

[MuleySniper]

Some places like Sportman Warehouse used to sell a kit that you could make a stove out of a small barrel. They worked good.
Slenk

I'll have to check that out. All the local steel and pipe yards I have been calling only carry real heavy walled tubing and pipe. Thanks!
MS

[bucklucky]

I used a stove just like that on a wilderness hunt a couple years ago. Worked awesom. My buddy was going to actually build a couple and was having the same trouble. I think they are haveing a sheeetmetal guy in Olympia roll some metal for them for cheap.

[MuleySniper]

That was my next step if I couldn't find any stock pipe was to check US Sheet Metal in Tacoma and see what kind of deal they could make me. If you happen to stumble upon the name of that place in Oly, that would be great too.
Thanks
MS

[Bearhunter]

I have the bigger version of the stove shown by cylinder stoves and it works great, its air tight and coals still in the morning.  If it dont work out building one, Id recommend that stove there!   Good Luck.

[bucklucky]

Olympia Sheetmetal is the name I believe.

[yelp]

no sense in buying a top of the line elk tent and then go cheap on the stove...get the stove.  look on ebay too.

[bucklucky]

I wouldnt say he is going cheap, just going to build a stove that will probably hold up better than the cheaply built store bought stove. At least that is what my buddie is thinking. And if you have skills to do so have at'er! I know there are improvements that cacn be made. But on the other hand if your not building it to make improvements and to just save a buck, $200.00 isnt a bad price 

[actionshooter]

MS, I just went through the same thing, I had the bighorn and just returned it to buy the Alagnak. Got the $150 giftcard and the free cots, good deal!! I'm in the process of looking for a stove also. I can build one but for the price I figured I would buy one, probably the one pictured. I buy metal for work and I'll bet you will have at least $80 in steel alone. Thats not counting the hardware.
 I have been kicking around buying a propane stove but I'm concerned about condensation 

 What ever you do post pics, I might steal your idea