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Minnesotian
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Possibly the logs were in place to prevent the stove shifting when the ground thaws out. Some stove legs can dig in on sandy soil. However I don't see that happening in most of the BWCA due to the rocky ground prevalent in the area.
Steve, could you clarify what you had to do? I don't understand why you had to shift snow back into the tent.
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Kawishiwashy
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Quick question. If I shovel down to the ground before putting the stove in its corner, I don't need to put it on logs, do I? I ask cuz I saw pictures of a stove on logs on bare ground. What would the reasoning be to do this?
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PortageKeeper
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Possibly only for stability because of uneven ground. Possibly just to raise it up a little. Maybe just because they saw it in a picture, and didn't know any better.
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George
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Also prevents legs from "buckling". Not essential though.
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SteveElms73
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I tried digging down this past week but then realized that when the stove was seated on the ground, the pipe would not clear the stove jack hole because of the elbow...doh! So I had to shovel all the snow back in and set it up on legs lol.
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SteveElms73
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I have a Kni-Co stove and the pipe came with an elbow. The elbow attaches above the first section of pipe. So when I dug down the stove sat about 10 inches lower. The pipe was not long enough to exit the stove jack when I dug down (the section of pipe with the elbow was maybe 18 inches but I needed a good 24 inches to clear the hole. I'm not doing a very good job of articulating this lol
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