hi - congrats on the bell tent.
dont have a frontier, i have a hobit. my placing was determined by the fact my bell has a precut flue exit position in the side wall, as per pics on my reply to your earlier topic. doubtless you will get plenty of replies from frontier owners.
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Hi. I have a Frontier in my 4m bell tent. I pitched the tent in the garden and tried different arrangements with the furniture and stove to find the best place.
In the end I decided on a different position to the one I originally wanted. Mine is just inside the door on the left, which I thought would be in the way of the exit but isn't. I was going to put it at the back in the centre but it would have been awkward getting access to the front of it.
Your choice will depend on the size of tent, how many people will be in it, what furniture you have, etc. I would definitely recommend trying it in the tent before cutting any holes! Could you take the stove on your next trip and find the best place for it?
Camping Solutions advise that the stove is positioned a minimum of 18" to 24" (45 to 60cm) from the side of the bell tent.
Cheers folks for that..ill wait till it stops rainin before I pitch it....away next weekend..dunno if it will be done before then..but it will give me an indication of weres best to put it....cheers.. stewey
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Having had to do quite a lot of research into wood burning stoves recently, I would offer the following advice to any one interested in fitting one.
For the stove to work efficiently, the flu must be hot, so retaining as much flu inside the tent as is possible, is a great advantage. If the flu exits the tent near the bottom, it will quickly cool over most of its length which is not good. The frontier stove, (I do have one) already suffers from not having a lot of draw, which I believe is due to the small bore of the flu. In use, I have found that I can't touch the flu that is inside my tent, but within less than a foot outside it is only warm. I have two other stoves, both of which can be left with the door fully open, with no smoke exiting the open door hole. Another important thing regarding heat output, is that a lot of heat comes from the flu itself, so if this is outside, you are wasting a good amount of heat, and if it's cold, a bell tent will require all the heat available. So my advice is to position the stove towards the center of your tent. I can't remember who it was, but recently there was a post where the user was going to fit a drop ceiling in her bell tent to retain more heat. A very good idea as well.
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Yes, the flue does get hot. Most of mine is outside but the temperature has still reached 28C inside on a frosty day, with the tent doors wide open. That's a 4m though. A 5m tent takes a lot more heating, so I've heard.
You could install the stove in the centre, but would have to be careful not to touch the flue to steady yourself as you went past.
Quote: Originally posted by raf48 on 17/5/2013 I can't remember who it was, but recently there was a post where the user was going to fit a drop ceiling in her bell tent to retain more heat. A very good idea as well.
It was me, I had put together a circlular fabric liner but once the tent is up it's obvious it needs to be teardrop shaped, still a few warm(er) weather camps before we need it so plenty of time to get dimensions right
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Our stove is in the center of our Tipi slightly different design from a bell but not much . No canvas any where near and better heat distributions . Weve never had an issue regards putting hands on it . It does get very very hot the bottom 4ft glows red when its running at full bore .
I have recently returned from cornwall where we used our frontier stove every evening and morning just for heating it performed very well, tho i must stress the importance of regular maintenance of the flu sections and spark arrester, you need to use a wire brush to de coke the holes
I bought a bristle brush rather than wire as I had read that wire brushes can damage steel flue pipes. I suppose they scratch them.
Don't make the mistake I made and stick the brush into the spark arrestor to clean it, then realised you can't pull them backwards, and all the bristles were poking through the gaps. Lots of brute force and twisting required to get it out!
I don't like the spark arrester you get with a frontier . My stove isn't a frontier but the original spark arrester is the same . The whole flue on ours is a DIY job .
The spark arrester is the inside of an old stainless steel flask with slots cut in it and bent to make them louvered . The stove draws better and the arrester is simple to clean .
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