I was considering buying the Toak titanium wood gas stove but decided to invest in this Lixada stove instead. I am glad I did it is a great little stove with only a few drawbacks Link on Aliexpress: www.aliexpress.com/item/33030...
Once again, a great review. I have an idea for a stove stabilizer that would be extremely light weight and extremely stable. Drill a small diameter hole through the base on one side and then drill another matching hole on the far side. Now slip a wire such as hanger wire trough the two holes so the wire extends beyond the base on both sides perhaps two to two and a half inches. Now repeat this whole process 90 degrees to the first two holes so that now you have four evenly spaced holes around the base and can place two wires through the base so the the wires cross each other. Now you have "outriggers" for your stove which would make it very stable. You could also place a precisely cut metal disk inside the stove base before installing the wires and now you have an ash catcher as well. I have not read the comments and maybe someone else already had this idea.
Great suggestion, as usual. I had a similar thought. I wanted to see what I could do without modifying the stove first. Only because I would like to share the idea with people who have little ability to do mods. Your suggestion definitely takes it to the next level and would work the best. Ideally, the outriggers would fit inside the bag I carry the stove in but that would not be a deal breaker. Thank you for commenting Lonnie
Hey Mark! Hope you are doing well. I've hurt my back, so I'm pretty much a couch potato. As I was watching.. hey, that's my kettle pot! I had found it a the thrift store here in Florida. I'm going to make the same cook system you have. Enjoying your videos as I heal.
I like that you're always curious about how things work; always trying to maximize the potential of a device or crank out a longer burn. We always get our money's worth when we watch your videos! Thanks, Mark.
I've had my Lixada stove for about a year now. For a twig stove, it's always my goto stove. The peg solution is what I use on soft ground, but I've never managed to knock it over (yet). Probably jinxed it now🤔 As always a great informative video, thank you. John
LOL...hopefully, it will only be water when it tips and not your lunch. I am really liking this stove and as long as a person is careful there should be no accidents. Thanks for commenting
Saturday morning coffee in hand. Mark’s YT new video notification pops up. Full smile!! Nothing better to start the weekend. Thank you once again Mr. Young. 👍🏻
LOL...You got to see that a week early. I had it posted for all of three seconds before I took it down. I am glad you liked it. It will be up again next Saturday
Hi,I have this stove now a couple of years...I payed $17 from amazon.I do like you showed with tent stakes ,works great......thanks for showing this stove.Take now.
Glad you liked the video. I checked out the Aulza and I think it is more like my other Lixada wood gas stove. I do a comparison video with this stove if you are interested
That would be very informative and well worth watching...it has a very decent rating on Amazon. I,VE subscribed and will be on the lookout for that video. Thank you!
This was my first stove. I keep lids from cans to put under the stove and I put the cross supports through the top holes instead of resting them on top because the Stanley Adventure pot is small enough that it fits inside the top of the stove. I have one of those starfrit can openers so it opens the lids nicely so you can use them for resting the stove on top and then they're disposable. I saw a video from you using this stove before and if I remember correctly you were using wood chips. So I ordered wood chips from Walmart in different types of wood which should give some flavouring to food possibly. The Stanley Adventure pot is the one that comes with the two plastic cups inside. I have bought a few things made by Lixada including bags. They make good affordable stuff. Quebec over and out, cheers.
Mark Young , as you noted it holds a lot of wood for a small stove and the gasification effect coming up from below produces a relatively big fire if I put enough wood on top.
I now carry one of those plastic bottles used for ketchup or mustard. It has a screw on, squirt type cap. I put water in it, and it makes a handy fire extinguisher should one be needed. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Good review Mark. I've also bought the same stove to fit in my camelwill pot and I'm very happy with the combo. They are durable and at a great price. Take care.
been using it for a while now a really awesome stove, i was surprised at just how much heat it produced boils water very quickly, i use a couple of old tent pegs and peg it into the ground for stability shared to my fb group...Polish & Hungarain Lavvu owners Worldwide
To stabilize the tower stove from being top heavy simply use tent pegs. Bent end hooked into each hole( or however many you want to use) with long end straight out from the holes laying on the ground. Place rocks on the tent pegs . Easy.
I have done that as well on a couple of my Ikea hobo stoves. I can pretty much go without a pot support as long as the pot is larger in diameter than the stove. Thanks for commenting
The beauty of living very close to China is that I can get those gadgets within 3-4 days if I so desire. So I had to try that stove as well 😀 Initial tests seem very promising but I need more time to really make up my mind (a massive typhoon just passed by and I was able to keep a flame up in very heavy winds, so that's an excellent early result. But I never got to burn the wood in the lower chamber...). Anyway, just wanted to feed back to be careful about the included bag: It leaves tiny bits of plastic everywhere; I'm sure you don't want that inside your pot ending up inside your hot meal. I'll pull out the sewing machine soon; just need to finally figure out how to make the round bottom piece of a bag line up with the side part; hint hint ;-)
I hope all is well with you after the typhoon. Thank you for your insights on the stove. I actually do have a video on making round bottom stuff sacks if you are interested. Thank you for commenting
Nice presentation. I plan to experiment this myself anyways but if you like, can jump the gun ahead to try this out. As we expect this is top down combustion, since we light it up from top. It may however be lit from bottom up if we so intend. What’s the point? This enables the wood gas to better mix with oxygen at the base for desirable air/fuel ratio and efficiency increase for reduce shoot on pot body, otherwise a high portion of wood gas is forced upwards through a low oxygen path and suffocate its way up the combustion chamber core for more shoot on pot body. This new approach is heavily dependent on chimney effect so much so that we might have to seal the fuel feeding port of the original design. . A fuel cube or a small dish of alcohol at the base can be a short term solution to jump start the experiment - before we come up with a more practical fore start solution.
I have used this stove in both the top-down and bottom up burn methods. I find both work well with a slight advantage going to top-down in terms of lasting a bit longer before having to be re-fueled. I would love to see the results of your tests. Thanks for commenting
easy mod I did, bought some 5mm stainless mesh, cut it to shape and stuffed it into the base, still lets air in, but restricts the ash out, made it a tight fit, and it hasn't moved yet.
Great suggestion. I have been experimenting with something similar with smaller holes to allow for burning wood pellets. A side benefit is that it slows wood burning a little bit as well. Thanks for commenting
Sir, a very simple solution to add stability to that stove, considering large holes in the bottom, can be to put two or more long lengths of crossing sticks in those, maybe longer than 15 inches each.
I was thinking about trying something like that. I wanted to have whatever I use be pack-able with the stove but I might give this a try. Thanks for commenting
I was thinking that too Payman but by entering the stick tip only in the base hole (s) and placing a stone on the stick(s) to anchor it down and keep it steady. Something even simpler would be 2 forks with their prongs in the base holes and a rock holding them in place. But Mark`s bookends rock idea is good too.
@@MarkYoungBushcraft i would love to see the results of your try. I guess 2+ sticks, a little thinner than holes and about 3 times the width of base will do, crossed or parallel.
I make my own simple stoves, which you can see on my channel, but I have been tempted by this stove because of reports from other users on social media as well as your video. This tells me the Lixada will do what I want should i decide to get one. This is a very clear and comprehensive review, confirming what I thought, it will fit inside my Zebra 12cmØ Zebra billy can. I like your idea of a bit of aluminiun flashing to catch hot ashes, but I'd probably just get a (below the rim side cut) can lid as it would take less time, cost nothing and the rim would be better to contain ash. I like the way you used the pot stand alone for the meths burner. I like the way you loaded up the burn chamber with larger Ø twigs making it into a sort of mini Swedish log and I bet that burned for ages. I also note, like me, you like an Aeropress for making ground coffee. I love mine.
I would say that the gasifier process is to burn from the top down and not feed the fire stick by stick. I think I would have settled with just that base layer wood. Nice review though.
Yes, good thoughts. I have used both ways in a couple of later videos. Both have benefits. In all cases it is not a true wood gas stove as pyrolysis does not occur. Thanks for commenting
The disc will give this stove the extra function to use your alcohol burner. The people at Metal Supermarket are really great and you can buy a little or a lot. I have hole saws, but they can mess up a project, so I scribe the exact hole size, drill 3/16" holes all around and either use my scroll saw or a hacksaw blade and clean everything up with a half round file. Takes a bit, but works good.
This stove is a great performer at an even better price. It is not a Firebox stove but is weighs much less and costs just a fraction. Thanks for commenting
If anyone ever shows you a Thermos flask Canadian EBay will be flooded with 2nd hand twig stoves! Just kdding, great review. I have a Lixada Titanium flat-pack twig stove arriving soon.
Very impressive. I noticed the cut-outs on bottom of combustion chamber might allow for a shortened shish k bab skewer to push through into soft earth for stabilization.
I have heard others talk about sharp edges but I now have the stainless steel and titanium versions. Neither had sharp edges. Review of the Ti version coming. Thanks for commenting
Don't really remember using this one much its been several years since i owned one but i think the reason you mentioned is most likely the reason i gave it away. I got it for my Pathfinder 64oz pot and i think it was unsteady so i moved on and bought the pathfinder stove designed for the pot. another great video, just revisiting some classic wood stove videos and trying to remember what i have and what i want to get... think ill pass on this one.
Hi Mark love that you are out there and I can watch your videos! Makes me realize that I can get to the back country by myself and enjoy it. I was wondering about your wind guards for the stoves where can I get one or make one?
I am glad you find my videos inspiring. I do have a video on making DIY windscreens from aluminum foil oven sheets. I also use a 9-panel aluminum windscreen I bought from eBay
Great review and like I need another stove. The function, storage capability and simplicity tell me I'm going to try to get one. I'm all about multi-use with everything, to make it functional for my T Alcohol Burner, I'd cut an aluminum disc 1/8" narrower than the part I wanted to drop into the stove.. Cut a round hole in that disc to accept and support the burner, drill 4 holes in the stove side, insert 2 wire tent pegs to support the aluminum disc, and drop the alcohol burner in. If you don't have metal at hand, Metal Supermarket in Burnside has an offcuts area or will cut anything you want. I like your enthusium for this item and appreciate the detailed explanation. Cheers.
Hi Mark. Thanks for a fine and thorough review. I´m using the Toaks in both sizes and they are my go to woodstoves. light weight and easy to use. On my last canoetrip in Denmark i used a Tomshoo woodgas stove and my large Toaks. The Toaks could be used from the beginning but the Tomshoo had to burn for a while before i could place a pot on top of it. I fpossiple I would be interested in a compareson between the Toaks and the Lixada tower woodstove. Thomas, Denmark
@@MarkYoungBushcraft Hi Mark. Thanks for your reply. It could be fun to gather the best things from different stoves and make a superstove: lightweight, easy to light, easy to feed, ash containment, stabillity, easy to pack and store in your pack, abillity to use other fuels allthough it is a wood stove. and so on.
@@Longsnowsm Outstanding comparison based on your experiences with both stoves. One of the things I like about both stoves is that they appear to be original designs and not copies of existing stoves. Unless you consider the Lixada a copy of the Toaks. Thank you
Very good review of this stove. I’m interested in the large TOAKs stove but based on your testing I have to admit this stove is as good or better than the TOAKs stove. Thank you
Great review Mark. Thank you. I have discovered two issues with my Tower Stove. 1. In time, the outside of the pot gets very covered in soot. So much so, that each time I use the stove, the pot bottom will "weld" to the top of the stove, and cause an annoying sticking issue, when removing the pot from the stove. Minor but annoying. 2. To get a large amount of water to boil, or to cook noodles or other meals with longer cook times, the burn chamber fills with ash, and then plugs off much of the air from below. This leaves a lot of un-burned ash in the burn chamber while also needing to add more fuel to continue cooking the meal. Sometimes I think, it may be better to just pull off the meal and be ready to preload the stove and run a second cook sequence in order to finish the meal. Do you have any tips to help with #2?
Good observations Dale. I found the stickiness can happen more when burning softwood (no surprise there). Using the cross bars should help reduce that. I like pre-loading the stove vertically with sticks quite tightly. I get a much longer burn that way. In truth, I am boiling water or simmering a soup based meal. Burn time on one load is usually long enough for that. Moving the stove a short distance while burning is possible with gloves with gloves as the very base of the stove does not seem to get excessively hot. That may help with the ash build up. Let me know if these tips help.
Interesting observations. I have had no issue with rust at all. I do keep mine dry and usually wipe them with oil after I clean them. Have you tried the pre-load like I use? I find it burns slower and longer. Thanks for commenting
Hi Mark. Great review. Seems like a pretty useful stove. I do have a question though. Do you have a secret eating problem? I ask this because as you were doing your Coffee, there is a packet of something in the kettle on the stove. It's okay if you didn't have enough to share. :)
LOL...Yeah, funny thing. It was one of the heat-and-eat type meals I have been trying lately. I heated it up on the same pre-load of wood I used to heat the water for coffee but decided it was too hot (32C) to eat a cooked meal. I ended up taking it home. Just had an energy bar after my coffee. Good eye.
Thank you for introducing us to this stove! I am currently pondering the possibility of a side feeding stove that also gasifies, to cut down on having to process wood to the short lengths needed for stoves like this and the Bushbuddy. Kind of a hybrid of a rocket stove and a gasifier. Do you know of such a thing?
Kind of like searching for the Holy Grail. The closest I am aware of is the Core 5 wood stove. shop.mysurvivalpack.com/core-5-bio-reactor-ultimate-titanium. My only issue with the design is the number of pieces that have to be assembled. The other interesting one is the Chudlow www.woodlandbushcraftandsurvival.co.uk/product-page/chudlow-woodgas-sto Not quite what you were thinking but worth looking at
@@MarkYoungBushcraft thank you for your reply, I had just come across a video of the Core stove. I agree, too many fiddly pieces, I have ordered the Lixada to play with. Have you tried side feeding it with long pieces? Would that work at all?
When preloading the burn chamber vertically, and some pieces of wood are taller than the secondary air holes, it seems that loading shorter wood positioned around the perimeter, with any longer wood in the center would be OK? The secondary perimeter burn would not be penalized, and could capitalize on the taller wood that way. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Great questions. I can do some comparison videos with those stoves as well. Crazy right? When I started I never expected to reach this level. I am starting to understand how this YT thing works now. My next challenge is to decide how much more work I want to put into the videos to go to the next level. Was supposed to be a hobby. Thanks for commenting
Sounds a neat little stove l had a Lixada stove that you have to put together but after useing prehaps 3/4 times it warped and would not fit together and it ended up in the bin all bent, after that l made a curve around Lixada and just bought a firebox, never looked back but this one looks ok. Regards Barrie
Can't go wring with the Firebox. My original Lixada wood gas stove used to get a bit warped. I lightly sanded around the burn chamber and wipe it down after use and it is working okay now. Thanks for commenting
I just purchased the Lixada titanium version of this stove and it is quite a bit smaller all round including the the capacity of the burn chamber. I assume your Tomshoo is the same dimensions?
@@MarkYoungBushcraft it's a completely different design. It's a true wood gas, which is good for efficiency & cooking with a pot. Not good for cooking food directly like a hot dog or something. I find hot dogs cooked over gasifiers taste like crap. You want the wood tar & smoke, so a rocket stove is better. I'm going to order the Lixada as it looks like it can do both depending on how you load it.
Not an easy question to answer as there are pros and cons for each. I like to provide both sides of the discussion and let the viewer what is best for them. Thanks for commenting
