I have used a Kifaru medium wood stove inside a tipi for some time and found it a revelatory combo for trips where the camp can be left set up for 2+ nights (e.g. hunting).
The box-on-legs stove is much heavier than newer designs, though. Much of that weight is in the 4 steel all-thread legs that go through the stove from bottom to top and bolt the whole thing together. In other words, the bottom and top are sandwiched tight onto the four walls by four long bolts that go all the way through the stove and come out the bottom as legs.
Has anyone modified this or similar stoves by replacing those heavy legs with some other material, or wire of some kind, or some other strategy? Like banding the stove together on the outside instead of bolting it together with the legs? Right now the legs pass through the firebox itself, and the stove glows red hot with a big log inside, so whatever I use would have to be very heat resistant.
Here is the stove:
http://store.kifaru.net/box-stoves-stainless-steel-p87.aspx
Thanks!
