Solo Stove Yukon. First use and initial review.
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- UPDATE: we have had our Solo Stove for one year now.
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I bought my wife a Solo Stove Yukon for our 5th wedding anniversary. We cooked over it the day it arrived and again a few days later.
It goes thru more wood than most fire-pits and burns a bit hotter as well. This is great for us, since we have 50 acres with lots of deadfall to use.
Lighting a fire in the Yukon was easy, since the sides of it help to block the wind.
The quality of the Solo Stove Yukon is very high. It looks great and has fantastic welds.
Packaging is top notch. I was worried about the possibility of dents but they really put some thought into the way it is packaged.
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Bought my Dad one and he's been waiting for the weather to break to use it. Thanks for showing it in action!
Andrew Spinney I’m glad you enjoyed it. I am sure that he will like the Solo Stove. It is very well made, creates a great fire with very little smoke and doesn’t leave half burnt chunks of wood.
Happy wife - happy life :)
Thank you for the review!
Happy wife! Good call.
Beautiful scenery first off. Second I love all the ambient noise like the insects, gravel under foot etc. Third that fire pit is HUGE!
Thank you. We love it here. The visual therapy, on a daily basis, is the biggest reason we moved here.
Just when you think your about to see your millionth CZcams fuzzy stick and ferro rod, out comes the torch! 'Merica!!
I started using Benzomatic weed torch to light the wood stove, about 15 years ago. You still need kindling but it’s much easier.
The Solo's are great, one of the guys had one last year when our Toyota group was up on Flagpole Knob last November. Practically no smoke once it got rolling.
Yeah, I like that aspect of it. I just need to get a couple ricks of firewood stored up for it.
Just ordered a Yukon stove thanks for a good review
Glad to help.
Btw We just did our 1 year review.
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I looked at your video and immediately thought "that looks like Virginia". Sure enough! I cruise right be there heading to Elkins WV on my motorcycle.
Yes. Beautiful Virginia. Blue Ridge Mountains just a stone’s throw from Sky Line drive.
Man don’t get any better then that chilling by a fire with a cold one.
Truth!
You need to get a hotbed of coals going before the flames to start coming out of the top inside holes. It takes a while for the sides to heat up to get the air flow moving. In two years, I've never had anything but pure ash left after it finished burning.
Does it give enough heat?
Use the ash in your garden ! 100% minerals ! Nice video , thanks for sharing : )
Used the orignal bushbuddy for years before Solo copied the design and marketed the hell out of it. But I still bought the Bonfire when it came out. Spent many a night with cold toes around that thing. Foot rest of some sort required to get your dogs up near the heat output. You also gotta get these to gassifying stage then you can slack of a bit. Overall really like them.
I’m thinking of getting this one. Thanks for the video.
You are welcome.
My man thank you
Quite welcome.
You got a beautiful lovely wife bless you 2 ♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
She got that corn out. Good eats..
Jeffrey Beskar i could tell that she wasn’t gonna let that corn go.
They do eat the wood, I have two, campfire and titan !
rammur1 thanks for taking the time to comment. And thanks for subscribing. .
Great review man! Nice spot on the mountain. God Bless!
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Yes we are truly blessed to live in such a beautiful place.
Our yukon ultimate bundle came today, can't wait to try it out this weekend.
Paul Sturgill you’re gonna love it. My favorite aspect is how completely it burns the wood. There is usually only ash and a few handfuls of charcoal left.
@@breakheartorchard4761 ohhh I bet, it looks really majestic sitting next to the old burnt out fire pit. I almost feel sorry for the old one.....no I don't 🤣
i like the why you think, and how you eksplains the why and how. greetings frome norway southt east.
Greetings Sledemakeren. Thank you for subscribing. We will be building Post and Beam part of our house soon.
Need more wood in it to get the secondary burn going. That amount of wood would work better in the next size down model
41levergun you definitely go thru more wood with this one. But I have a great deal of wood available. And the ash is beneficial to the fields.
"I got some new your strip right here".....Me, "Oh hell yeah you do!" Great video man!
Thank you.
We cut up a London broil and cooked that over the Yukon three nights ago. It was perfect.
Your voice 😍 I hope you have a Radio show Barry White 😅🙌🏾
You are very kind.
I have been looking at one of those stoves. Great car camping stove. Awesome channel, I subscribed. ✌️
AS THE CROW FLIES HIKING Thank you.
We really enjoy it. Used it two nights ago to make dinner.
Campfire is great
Thanks for the video
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching. We’ve had it for almost two weeks and used it 3 times. We will probably use it again tonight. So far, we love it.
If you have trouble lighting a fire with a propane torch, then you have "issues"...
Propane is for amateurs, that was map gas.
@@breakheartorchard4761 Tamaetoe, Tahmahtoe!
i like her jeep
I bought the Yukon. I have only used it once so far, first impressions. It puts out lots of heat to the point that you cant sit to close to it. The sides get very very hot to the touch, but doesnt put out radiant heat at the sides. I like it alot. I'm not sure about cooking in it as the drippings from the food might be difficult to clean? If you have any feedback for that? I would not recommend this item, if you have small children that might run up to it and touch the sides.
Vito Rotondi we have cooked meat and corn over the fire. The drippings seem to have burned up. Perhaps if you were cooking something very fatty like sausages, the drippings might go thru the bottom to the air chamber beneath and become a problem. So far we have cooked lean red meat and chicken s there have been no issues.
Break Heart Orchard jnhbh
Wife's hair looks red....Did you seriously try and tell redhead what to do in regards to corn?
Well, I tried.
I build these by recycling water heater tanks. I have made 16”, 20” and 24” versions and the 24” one takes a lot longer to get up to temp. They all really need to be full of wood to get a good secondary burn around the edge. It works best when you set larger pieces in the center to force the wood gas out toward the edge to mix with the heated secondary air. The 16” and 20” are quicker to get to secondary temp/clean burn and much easier to keep fed. They all like little stuff(dry of course), like pine needles, twigs, branches, broken bark and wood chips that I rake from under my trees when it is dry. Try filling it 1/2-3/4 full of that stuff then build your fire on top of that and watch what happens:) I don’t add wood too fast, just a piece every now and then. Better to add a piece before you think you really need it. I also put in little stuff all around to fill open areas. I even pour some of the small debris in from time to time. I build mine a little shorter than solo does as you don’t get much radiant heat from the sides of the canister. Keeping the edge as low as possible means more people exposure to the heat from the fire inside. Burning so clean you can set very close to it. My installed one, I recessed several inches below the top of our bricked patio, just have to leave a gap around it for air to reach the intake at the bottom edge...
I love the ingenuity.
I still have a couple burn barrels on the farm. Even cooked lunch over one this past weekend. I’ll try the technique you listed for building it up.
Next time, try filling it up with a large bag of wood pellets to just shy of the top holes, then try lighting it from the top. You'll be amazed how long a fire lasts for using pellets
AJ W that sounds like a bad idea. Have you actually done this? The bottom fed airflow seems like it would get the pellets burning faster than desired and much hotter.
@@breakheartorchard4761 I have the Campfire. I did forget to mention I cut out and placed a finer wire mesh on the bottom that will allow the pellets to stay above the bottom chamber. For this to work properly, I do ignite from the top of the pellets using a splash of 99% rubbing alcohol. This method gets a nice uniform smolder (releasing CO), which will undergo secondary ignition in contact with air fed through the top holes. I get about 45 mins of burn time (the Campfire was the biggest one Solo offered a few years back) without adding anything extra using this method. Google "top-down ignition campfire". Give it a shot.
AJ W this is going to require me to do a “science experiment or two.
@@breakheartorchard4761 Look forward to hearing the results!
looking for something that will give good heat for a deck to sit around during cold weather? Would this be good for that?
My wife was just saying last night, that its gonna be soli stove weather again soon.
The solo is a double wall design so while the sides get hot, they don’t throw a lot of heat. Basically when sitting in a chair, from the knees down its less heat than a fire usually casts. We find it to be great for fall and late fall. In the deep of winter, we usually aren’t outside at night.
Hope that helps.
You mentioned that it didn't put out alot of heat along the sides but just out of the top? Does it keep your feet/legs warm when sitting around it? Nice review
B Brooks I consulted with my bride to get her take on it, and not just mine. When you are seated around it, the heat starts at about knee level. The coldest outdoor temps that we’ve used it in are mid to low 40’s. We were comfortable. Until everyone else went inside and I stayed with the fire as it burned down. I’m looking forward to the spark shield. Ill probably do a review of that, next week.
Very nice brother.
BC in AZ Much appreciated.
They should have a grill top for this
Absolutely. There are a few solutions and I think we will make a cooking video with ours soon. Its a great treat to sit around and cook dinner while hanging out with the family.
@@breakheartorchard4761 NIce cant wait to see that video
It was a nice scene how you watched your ladies run into the distance.
Thanks. Thats one of my favorite things about living out here.
Sir, thank you for posting! From the distance you were at at 4:20, about how much heat was coming off at 7:10? You guys appear to be much closer to it. I also would take it that it is obviously cooler at nightfall. You mentioned earlier that you didn't feel alot of lower heat at the bottom but the unit was obviously hot to the touch. Thank you for you time.
From knee level down there isn’t much heat radiating off of it. There are pluses and minuses for that. If you are looking for a heat source for deep winter campouts, when you are sitting around the fire or this probably isn’t it. But if you want a really nice fire pit that doesn’t smoke terribly and looks great then this might be for you. It also makes it more comfortable in warmer days so the heat isn’t driving you away from the fire can tell you that while building our house my wife will use a traditional burn barrel ( 50 gallon drum) to warm up this winter. But she absolutely hates the way it looks and doesn’t want it around unless she is freezing.
She loves the Solo stove and was just talking about it this week, saying she cant wait till we can get back outside on the weekend and use it again.
@@breakheartorchard4761 Thank you again for your time and reply. That help! Best wishes. God Bless.
@@breakheartorchard4761 does it burn through wood quickly?
I am debating on getting one myself.
How was the cleanup?
Cleanup is minimal. Most of the wood burns up leaving light ash and a few pieces of charcoal. I plucked the charcoal out to save for the next fire and turned the fire-pit over. Gave it a few taps on the side and thats it. Right-side up and put a cover on it.
What did you use to record the audio with? I don't see any lapel mics. Audio came out pretty good.
Gopro 7 black. I play with the audio during editing and try to maximize it and minimize distortion. Thanks for the compliment. Editing is a killer
I have a paver-pit approx. 26 inches inside diameter. Wondering if your Yukon would fit or need a smaller size. Thanks PS: I wear the same baseball cap.
Outer diameter is 30 1/4 inches. Solo stove website lists the bonfire model as 19.5 inches. Hooah!
Trying to decide between the Bonfire and Yukon. My daughter and SIL have the former which seems like the right size for most people and wondering if the Yukon would go through a lot more wood. Interested in thoughts for deciding between the two options.
The yukon eats wood. If you are buying stacks of wood from the grocery or hardware store, get the Bonfire.
@@breakheartorchard4761 I have enough dead fall and small trees in my yard that I do not need buy wood, but I can see having more outdoor fires with one of these Solo stoves. My daughter has the Bonfire and you more or less confirmed my thought that the Yukon would be too much.
Timothy Kozikowski we have an orchard and a lot of wooded land and debris from land clearing. So I will probably wear the stove out before I run out of stuff I need to burn. We had a large debris fire this weekend. I will be posting video from that soon.
I've been looking at these, the smaller one probably. Did you have to just let it burn out or were you able to put it out with water when you were done?
Kristi Buescher You want to let it burn out. I would worry about water shocking the welds. The airflow that it has, makes it burn fairly fast so it doesn’t seem to smolder like some fire pits do.
Kristi Buescher you could also buy a paella pan and put it on there upside down like a lid. But covering it up woild probably make the embers last longer
Break Heart Orchard Ah, ok good to know! Thanks for posting this video, very helpful in making my decision!
Thank you for the video, and best of luck with it. Do you have any idea how long it might hold up if not abused?
Frankiarmz from the quality of workmanship, I would expect years of service. Keep it covered and lifted off the soil and it should give great performance and hold up very well.
Break Heart Orchard I appreciate the reply. Thank you.
Is that the largest size?
Sylvia Welsh yes, this is the largest size that they make...so far.