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Subject:Re: Wood Stove Westy
Date:Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:01:01 EST

In a message dated 11/23/04 1:08:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
wetwesty@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO writes:

> This DOES exist.  I looked at a westy with a wood
> > stove but didn't buy it.  (The westy OR the stove!)
> > 
> > The stove was removeable.  It was just over 1'
> > by 1' by 1'.  It mounted to the front table
> > support.  Exhaust went out through the sliding
> > window just behind the driver, above the sink.
> > 
> > The guy said he had to stoke it a couple of
> > times per night.
> > 
> > no other info, sorry.
> > 
> > --tabe
> > 
> > 
> A while back on ebay I saw a real small stove listed as a boat stove.  Was
> just at that size and cast iron and brass ornemented.  Very nice.  I bid 100
> on it and watched that bid dissappear into the dust real quick.  Don�t
> remember what it went for but it was over 300.  I liked it but not that
> much.
> 

i remember that old beer swilling fart from maine , who routinely had his 
travels in his early 60's ex-panel van rusty microbus named "old blue" chronicled 
in the Limbo newsletter...  he had a wood burning stove in that thing..  
would drive it out onto a frozen lake, and use it as a ice fishing hut..  i think 
it even had a hole cut in the floor for ice fishing right out the bottom..  
frankly id be a tad bid scared of a red-hot cast iron stove sitting in the 
middle of my vanagon.. between the dangers of CO2 and the fire/melting hazard, 
id opt for a LP or gas heater..

chris