Guide Gear Outdoor Wood Burning Stove; Portable with Chimney Pipe for Cooking and Camping

This is an excellent stove! I have many years experience with all kinds of wood stoves and decided for the price I'd give this a go seeing as we live full time in an RV and not a house anymore so we needed a smaller wood stove. As with anything it does have a couple cons which I'll list but overall this is a 5 star stove in my opinion. First I started with assembling it which was simple, the only tool required for assembly was an allen wrench and was assembled in less than 10 minutes. Then I fired it up outside to burn off the paint, after that place hearth board underneath the stove and along all walls inside your structure and ensure the stove spacing is within the proper distance of the hearth boards that are on the walls, use double wall insulated pipe going through the ceiling to ensure the flu doesn't get too hot and catch a roof on fire and you're good to go!Pros:1. The price is great for what you get.2. The wood box is a good size.3. The assembly is simple.4. It only weighs 40ish pounds.5. No smoke leaks around the flu pipe.6. It will definitely heat the surrounding area.7. It would be pretty hard to over fire it.8. The last flu pipe already has a rain cap installed (technically it's welded on).9. It came with a damper pre-installed into the flu pipe.10. All parts fit inside the fire box for easy transportation.11. It has great draft for only having a 3" flu.12. Construction/material quality is great.13. I'm not suggesting anyone use this for an RV as I am seeing how they aren't technically rated for that use (legal disclaimer there) but I've determined its safe with the proper install, in conjunction with using carbon monoxide detectors, smoke detectors and hearth board in the correct places. To me this stove is no more dangerous than any other wood stove on the market and is in fact much safer than some others I've used in the past.The cons: 1. If you pack a bunch of wood in it the door can't be completely latched otherwise it puffs smoke out of the 3-6 holes on the front door vents. Solution just don't latch the door closed to where it creates a tight seal.2. There isn't a rack inside to stack the wood on top of, not necessarily a necessity but would create a little more airflow and allow an ash/coal base and one could be purchased separately or homemade.3. Doesn't have fire brick inside, could be purchased separately as well.Out of those cons the only one that truly matters is not being able to latch the door creating a tight seal, I have had wood shift in other wood stoves and fall out of a door that wasn't completely latched. Use common sense and keep an eye on the woodstove, as you should with any woodstove and there shouldn't be any issues with even that con.Overall well worth the money and the pros outweigh the cons by leaps and bounds!

I bought this little stove in hopes it might at least take the chill out of the air on cooler evenings/mornings on days I wanted to work in my 15x18 (uninsulated) shop. The ridgeline is sitting at a little over 15' tall, (I closed in the back half of where I used to store my camper) so I wasn't expecting miracles or anything, which was a good thing because I didn't get any. It merely did exactly what I expected it to do & nothing more. It was around 30 degrees the first night I fired it up & after about 45 minutes the thermometer in my shop was sitting at a sultry 63... until... I went inside & brought out the trusty box fan, turned it on, & angled it towards the ceiling to circulate some of the accumulated warm air floating around above my work area. After about 5-7 minutes the ambient temp had jumped up to a 72 degrees. Literally perfect for me. It's a nice little stove for the money. Sure, like other reviewers mentioned, it smokes a little out of the cracks in the door, but after the fire is rolling, everything finds its way up the pipes & is drawn outside.During installation I had to add about 36" of pipe & a couple of 90's in order to go out & up, so I went to the local brick & mortar store & grabbed some of that double wall galvanized gas water heater pipe which fit perfectly. Sure, it'll eventually burn out, but I'll just replace it when it does. Everything was installed and smoking in less than an hour. I also bought one of those little cast iron dampers offered up when you look at the stoves here on Amazon. It seems to help wood consumption & helps keep the heat in the stove a little longer so it has a chance to heat the fire box. It's a well made & heavy little stove. For my use, I can fuel it with the dead limbs that plague my yard after a storm. I'll just break em up in 12-14" pieces and stack 'em up for later us on cooler days. I also had an old piece of small railroad track & a large splitting wedge I placed on top of the stove to collect & radiate a little more heat. I'm sure it helped, but I don't know how much. The little stove does the job I intended it to do regardless.For my application, this little stove is perfect and I don't regret pulling the trigger on it one bit. Long story short, I couldn't be happier. Hope this helps.*** if you check out my photos you'll see the double walled pipe I used. You'll also see a sooty spot on the wall by where the pipe is running up. That's from where I used the stove a few days prior to buying the pipe. The pipe I purchased doesn't leak smoke into the room at all. The spot was pre-existing ***Troy48/M/Texas

First of all, this is a good wood stove. I have it in my outdoor shed and it heats it up extremely well for a 240ft² building. The construction is sturdy metal, I don't think it's gonna fall apart and it holds a fire well. That being said it does smoke a lot in the beginning, and the size makes shutting the door completely kill the fire if there isnt good ventilation. The holes on the front for airflow seem to be too small and so shutting the door will put the fire out, but leaving a small crack doesnt let the smoke out and lets it continue to burn. In the beginning the paint will peel off because of the heat but dont worry, it will stop a few fires in, and make sure you ventilate the space youre in because that paint smoke is quite noxious. I never expect perfection from mass produced stuff i order online so overall im very pleased with this little stove.