Solo Stove Yukon. One Year review. The Ultimate Firepit!

good evening we're about to do a one-year review on our solar stove yukon we bought this about a year and half a month ago and we've used it a couple dozen times it's held up really well i've had some folks ask me how it's doing and i thought i would take the opportunity since the weather is just about perfect to show how this is going now we went ahead and we bought the shield of the spark arrestor i'll set that to the side we'll take a look at that in a few minutes i store it with everything turned upside down sitting and sitting in there with the soul stove cover on top of it whenever i finish with the fire the next day i cherry pick out the uh coals so i can get it started with those coals and burn them up later on but let's look at how this thing is held up over a year and a couple dozen fires now there's just a little bit of a patina of rust there that comes right off with the fire there's no problems whatsoever this thing is still really solid if you pick it up and look at the bottom of it i store it on the fire ring on the grass i have no problems whatsoever nice and solid no issues i'm not showing any rust on it you got the patina from the fire the ring has held up really well there's no corrosion whenever we're going to have a fire i bring it over here to the edge of our driveway but usually it's stored over there in the grass i'm going to load it up and we're going to get a fire going we'll talk about the different features of it and how i think they've held up and whether or not i'd buy it again [Music] now i know a lot of folks use the a lot of different little campfire methods to get it going i'm not trying to showcase my survival fire starting skills i'm just trying to get this thing going that's why i use canon map gas it'll heat up enough that it'll recirculate the heat through these chambers right here because this is a double wall stainless steel it'll pull the heated air up mix that in with the smoke and it'll burn off a lot of the smoke which is why you get a relatively smoke-free fire once it's going now this is the older version of the yukon which is a full 30 inches i believe the newer version is 27 inches across as you can see from the wide expanse here i have plenty of wood that's going to fall on a regular basis in fact this wood that we're burning tonight in addition to some cut off some untreated pine cutoffs from the house that we're building we're also burning a deciduous tree that fell across the road about a month ago i don't know what kind it is uh it's beach or poplar one but it's free and so we're gonna burn it up [Applause] now while this fire is building let me talk about a couple of the things that we bought with the solar stove i went ahead and bought the solar stove shelter now i did not clean it up specifically so that i could show people how it's holding up i don't have it under any kind of cover it stays out here in the yard a couple times a year we come out and i spray it down i've sprayed it down with some cleaner and rubbed it down with a rag it comes up clean but it is fading in the sun the little emblem has a little bit of fade to it but it's out in the sun it's held up it's still really strong there are no tears and it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do it's taken the brunt of any effects that weather would have on the solo stove and this gets aged and that doesn't with the solar stove there was a fire ring that came with it that fire ring was replaced by this one when we got the soil stove shield there's a little warpage from heat but once it once we put it on there it settles in put the shield on top of it there's no issues the shield itself has not warped it's held up very well and i don't hold back on the fires when i'm burning them i throw a lot of wood in this thing and burn it up if you're going to have a a solar stove for the backyard and you don't have a whole lot of wood available to you you might want to go with a smaller stove because this thing is not at all stingy with the wood it burns it up real quick once that wood burns down a little bit i'll put the top piece to the shield on there and once the coals build up and the heat builds up you'll start to see that smoke burn off so questions that continue to come up are how much heat comes off of this thing once you get the fire going real well you get a lot of heat when you're standing up once i sit down i feel the heat from it hit me right about here down on my calves it's not bad it's warm your toilet your teeth will burn your tail though it's warm but it's not hot right here now if you had an open fire pit it would definitely be hot throwing a lot of heat right there you can feel quite a bit of heat right here big difference i've had people ask do i think it would serve them well in uh for a full winter time fire pit my thought is probably not usually the springtime in the fall is when i'm out here the most and this serves me well as i said i'm going to burn up these pine cut-offs from the house built we got we accumulate quite a stack of those good oh my gosh i'm gonna set it right next to it because it's not warm my hair nope it does not it's chilly it's nice though don't you want your coat no i got fire oh my god it feels great though i'll be right back okay okay okay get my cold sheep you'll be okay okay all right i'll be back all right careful now on the edges of the fire you can see those re-burn chambers have heated up enough they're starting to burn off some of that smoke and as i said it's a relatively smokeless fire i don't think you're going to get a 100 percent smokeless fire but it's certainly not like your normal fire pit where the smoke chases you around all night with the world being the way it is right now it's nice to sit around the fire and just kind of relax a little bit you also don't have one but a sweatshirt so it's 30 degrees out so is it really yeah it is oh my gosh winter hit grandmother had a house as you can see i put the shield cover on the top of it and that keeps the embers from popping out while the fire is burning it does a really good job and by the time the fire dies down some and i'm ready to go in for the evening i feel pretty confident that nothing's going to pop out of there and cause any they when that happened problems don't know that's hilarious so good morning last night as you saw we had a nice fire here in the solo stove and i just want to show i haven't even touched this yet since last night i just want to show what's left of all the wood that we had stacked up here all that's left i don't need the tool here i just happen to grab it all that's left in here is some ash a very small amount of ash it really burns everything up it does an amazing job i know a lot of times when you got a fire pit the next day you come out and there is a lot of charcoal a lot of pieces that didn't burn up this just burns up almost completely the shield is still in great shape that's just got some ash on it but the shield is in great shape and i gotta say after a year and a couple dozen fires this thing has done really well i got to give it a big thumbs up thanks for watching if you got any questions just throw them in the comments section i'll be happy to answer them so i split that wood down there in the field and then i stacked it and brought it back in the back of the truck yeah i like that it's with the axe you split it uh that absolute mountain tears and cheers matt and his friend didn't properly put on there they were 16 17 years old they're industrious enough to put the head on an axe that's you know this was that it is what it is you got to be honest about it

Channel: Break Heart Orchard

Views: 170,561

Keywords: firepit, fire-pit, bonfire, solo stove bonfire

Id: SFm_G9k_3Hg

Length: 10min 57sec (657 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 05 2020