Wall tent wood stove chimney/smoke pipe.

[jackelope]

From a draft standpoint, is a taller smoke pipe better?
Total greenpea rookie newb wall tent/stove guy but in Idaho last week we had a tent and stove. The 3 of us that were there had never used one before. We had some draft issues and were wondering if the pipe wasn't long enough to provide adequate updraft. Just thinking out loud here..in case a wall tent ever ends up in my garage.
Thanks.

[jackelope]

[jackelope]

For what it's worth, I know the stove was too small for the tent but still had a hard time keeping a good fire burning. If we opened the door slightly, the fire would get going good. That tells me not enough air through the stove.

[Woodchuck]

I have that exact tent and that is the height of my pipe. I am wondering if the draft on the stove is too high  . My stove worked way better after I started using a grate under the wood to get better air flow to the bottom of the wood. 

[2MANY]

For one, it appears the taper of the pipe gets smaller as it rises?? Should be the other way around or straight piped.
For two, ditch the stove cap. Completely unnecessary.
For three, add a length or two of pipe. It will draft twice as good and get you above the ridge. The extra height also allows the sparks time to cool before landing on the roof.
For four, sometimes the pipe recesses too far into the top of the stove. If it sticks in more than an inch cut some off.

Burn bone dry wood!!!

[CP]

The rule of thumb is to get the opening above the highest point of the roof.

[jackelope]

For one, it appears the taper of the pipe gets smaller as it rises?? Should be the other way around or straight piped.
For two, ditch the stove cap. Completely unnecessary.
For three, add a length or two of pipe. It will draft twice as good and get you above the ridge. The extra height also allows the sparks time to cool before landing on the roof.
For four, sometimes the pipe recesses too far into the top of the stove. If it sticks in more than an inch cut some off.

Burn bone dry wood!!!

Thanks. We borrowed all of this stuff from a friend who wasn't there so we did with what we had to work with. That stove pipe was telescopic/tapered, and maybe we had it upside down. I thought we had to have something on top of the pipe for sparks.  Anyway...
Thanks for the input.

[Woodchuck]

For one, it appears the taper of the pipe gets smaller as it rises?? Should be the other way around or straight piped.
For two, ditch the stove cap. Completely unnecessary.
For three, add a length or two of pipe. It will draft twice as good and get you above the ridge. The extra height also allows the sparks time to cool before landing on the roof.
For four, sometimes the pipe recesses too far into the top of the stove. If it sticks in more than an inch cut some off.

Burn bone dry wood!!!

On the pipe cap. Possibly the biggest waste of money by me ever. I have a guy in camp with the tapered nesting pipe and it seems to work ok. 

[bobcat]

Isn't the cap at least good for keeping rain/snow out when the stove isn't in use?

[jackelope]

Isn't the cap at least good for keeping rain/snow out when the stove isn't in use?

That's what I was thinking too, and I thought there had to be some sort of spark arresting device on it. Granted, that cap is not much of a spark arrestor, but that's all he gave us.
 
Total amateur hour adventure here...

[Woodchuck]

Isn't the cap at least good for keeping rain/snow out when the stove isn't in use?

It can be but they clog with creasote very quickly.

[92xj]

Looks like your air intake on the door is wide open yet something is blocking the top 3/4. You said when you opened the door the fire burned great. Intake air flow is your issue, not the exhaust. I know a lot of stoves have a guard on the inside of the door to block Ashe and wood from coming out the intake holes, maybe yours got bent in closing of the intake even though the damper was wide open.

[WAnoob]

If you can manage the extra weight, Duraflame fire logs are awesome in stoves when hunting.  No worries about splitting wood or making sure it's dry.  We only had to chop off a few pieces from a log to start a good fire for the whole night.

[Woodchuck]

Looks like your air intake on the door is wide open yet something is blocking the top 3/4. You said when you opened the door the fire burned great. Intake air flow is your issue, not the exhaust. I know a lot of stoves have a guard on the inside of the door to block Ashe and wood from coming out the intake holes, maybe yours got bent in closing of the intake even though the damper was wide open.

Good point, when I made my stove I made the intake out of 2 pieces of 2x4 tube cut at a 45 to make a 90 and it faces up, put a flapper on top. 

[92xj]

I would also almost assume you had at some point of the camp a time where smoke would come out of the intake holes, would chug like a train puffing smoke out, you would panic, being a woodstove newbie, open the door, the flame would take off and then right itself to take the smoke out the exhaust.


that's what happened to me anyways when I had issues that you're describing. frustrated the crap out of me.