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source for a cast iron firebox/camp stove
« on: September 21, 2010, 12:42:20 PM »
Need help locating a camp stove.  I've seen them at various events but noone can remember where they got them or they bought them from a friend.  It is a cast iron firebox on legs.  Has a cast iron plate set off from the fire where you can polace coals and put your dutch oven on it to cook.  Any help would be appreciated, have been using a Walmart firepit to cook on these past two years and it just does not work as well as I would like.   Cordially yours, Mild Will
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Re: source for a cast iron firebox/camp stove
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2010, 04:57:52 PM »
Any blacksmith or even someone with a cutting torch and welder should be able to make what you want.  Any I've seen were built by someone like that.  Myself I have two semi wheels I use where I can't dig a proper type fire set up.
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Re: source for a cast iron firebox/camp stove
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Re: source for a cast iron firebox/camp stove
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2010, 02:47:06 PM »
would this do you any good?

Thanks for the suggestion, I should have added to my request that the firebox looks like an overgrown hiabachi on legs.  Still looking. 
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Re: source for a cast iron firebox/camp stove
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2010, 10:13:31 AM »
Crazy Crow has this one for sale, but it is pretty small ... I would think more for coal than firewood

I have been working on an idea for when I get around to it ...

First, get four stove bellied pot legs ... the older looking the better.

Then, get a 24" square of 1/4"-5/16" steel

Have the place that made it bend 4" walls out of the outer edges of the square ...

Then drill and stove bolt legs onto the corners (also securing the four walls together) ... et voila! Instant antique fire pit!
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