Let the Record show that Gunner Asch on or
about Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:16:25 -0800 did write/type or cause to
appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

A gallon of fuel at Wally world is bout $5-8 dollars and will run a
stove for at least a month, cooking 2 times a day.

Up till last summer, those stoves were in storage, with most
everything else. And for most of the years before then, I lived in the
city. The one is propane, and I've the adaptors for the bulk tanks.
I need to find the other one and check it out.
My big "score" was two (more) Son Of Hibachis. Their claim to
fame is the ease with which they can get the charcoal going. I've
even gotten charcoal that had been out in the garage over the winter
(and was thus a bit damp) to light off. And they work real well as
braziers for heating a space.

But I need to get on the preparations.

Indeed. And bear in mind..that hibachis are the MOST CO malignant
devices ever developed by man, including the Edsel.

They put out a deadly deadly cloud of the stuff..so ALWAYS cook outdoors
with them. Even in the snow.

I have a small wood stove, but adding it to this place presents
.... "opportunities". (I have plans for a "thermal mass stove", but
adding a ton of rock inside a manufactured home -- not a good idea.)

Shrug

As for propane vrs liquid fuel stoves and lanterns...a propane device is
limited to whatever you have in the tank.

A liquid fuel device is limited to whatever you can syphon out of a gas
tank after your proper liquid fuel is gone.

Something to consider...shrug

I'm considering. It was 26 degrees when I left church tonight.
Cold enough for me... and a clear night, too.
-
pyotr filipivich
We will drink no whiskey before its nine.
It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!