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title: "Cool Portable Mailbox Wood Stove"
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updated: 2026-07-16T13:12:32+00:00
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# Cool Portable Mailbox Wood Stove

So I caught this on [this guy’s blog](http://highmileagetrikes.blogspot.com/index.html#2476435777827697042) today and had to share. It is great thinking in a situation where the SHTF and you would have to improvise. This is something you can build, and modify for cooking or heat if you need to. I am going to build one shortly and test it myself…

This was an exercise in swiftly constructing a very cheap yet useful semi airtight stove, with minimal tools: a screwdriver and rock to punch out the vent hole and a hack saw to cut the electrical conduit.

I saw two others on the web but none had a top cooking surface. Smoke escapes better when it’s tilted up in the rear.

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The conduit was bent into a ‘U’ shape, shoved into the ground, and wired to the mailbox. The other length holds up the 2″ gutter flue. I did add some wood screws along the bottom edges to help seal up air leaks. The total cost was about $35 dollars.

WARNING: Do not use a galvanized mailbox. The zinc will give off toxic fumes with heat.

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