Keeping wall tent warm throughout the night.

[Mules&Mulies]

After listening to the old podcast yesterday, Jordan, Robby and Travis were telling stories in the wall tent. Robby was talking about Travis’s pellet stove, and said that is was warm all night long. In my experience's, I’ve spent a few nights in a wall tent with a couple different stoves (Alaskan and a cylinder stove). What I like to do is put a couple of inches of dirt in the stove once camp is set up, get a fire going. Then a bed time throw a big chunk of coal on the fire! I’ve never had a burn through with this type of fire. When on a road camp it’s pretty easy to bring enough coal, when packing in on mules I try and take enough for each evening. Just an idea and hope it helps some folks.

 

[Legend]

I just invite a guy over 60. They always have to piss in the middle of the night.

 

[NWBLKTAIL]

^That is 100% true, never fails.

 

[Elkfever]

We’ve had good success loading the wood stove up at bedtime with wood and one Idaho Energy Log. The energy logs burn much longer than regular firewood. Always wake up to enough coals to stoke the fire when we get up too.

 

[elkliver]

Pellet stoves have a hopper you fill-up. It requires an extension but works very well and runs all night. With a regular wood stove, type of wood, manage the oxygen intake and load wood carefully and fully

 

[william schmaltz]

 

[NRA4LIFE]

I just invite a guy over 60. They always have to piss in the middle of the night.

Hey, c'mon man. Wait until you're 60, it ain't fun.

But seriously, have you considered one of these cheap diesel heaters? One of my partners uses and swears by them. And I'm hear to to tell you, his tent is warm, all night. I think it's a cheap thing off Amazon.

 

[OKHunter84]

For some reason I always have to get up and piss like a race horse in the mountains and I'm not 60 yet. I never want to get out of the sleeping bag. I've had cramps before in the middle of the night in the mountains and maybe I hydrate too much trying to avoid that again. There's nothing worse then trying to get a cramp out when you're in a sleeping bag and it's cold.

 

[ChrisA]

I've brought both anthracite and bituminous coal to the mountains. Both do well extending the heat output of a stove loaded with locally available softer woods. Anthracite requires a good hot bed of coals to burn but burns clean, while bituminous burns rather easily but dirtier and will certainly spot up your tent roof or rain fly.

I too drink a ton of water through the day and piss at least twice a night so Ive basically givien up on coal and just reload wood. Just make sure anyone loading the stove at night opens the damned flue before opening the stove door, I was about ready to strangle a dude after his 5th or 6th smoke out.

 

[cnelk]

I’ve used the DuraFlame logs to keep the stove going all night.

Load up with wood and put the log on top.

Had good embers in the morning.

You have to watch for soot / gunk buildup in the stove pipe after a few days though

 

[5MilesBack]

I remember my late rifle season days......we'd have the stove going all night even with coal....it would burn red hot......I'd still wake up with a sheet of ice on top of my sleeping bag. I really hate the cold.

 

[idahodave]

I've done and tried it all....hardwood, coal, unicorn horns...you name it. Without question the pressed energy logs are the way to go. They were $1.05 apiece at local D&B. Burn waaaay longer than regular wood and moderate temperatures beautifully. Used as recently as two days ago....

Dave

 

[Firehole Hunter]

Idahodave says that "I've done and tried it all.............Without question the pressed energy logs are the way to go."

I don't know about that, because I tried some of that pressed cardboard logs and seemed to be about the same as everything else. You just have to take turns and make the young whipper snappers don't sleep to heavy so after I take my piss that I have a warm tent to come back into. Its the only thing that works, but it has a human element in it.

 

[Cmf88]

Like someone else had mentioned, after about two nights I have to take top two pieces of stove pipe of and clean out the soot. I normally just drop it on the ground few times and it’s good to go. I noticed if I don’t do that, it dose t get as good flow and makes it more Smokey.
The pressed energy logs do seem to work better, I also just toss them on right before I go to sleep. But you can just about guarantee around 3 to 4 am if you wake up, it’s gonna be cold. But it’s easy to throw some logs on to get it back going at that point.

 

[SwiftShot]

Rocks big rocks. Look for rocks around camp. Place them under and around the stove. They act as a heat sink. They will warm up then slowly relaese it through the night. It is all about thermal mass. Sometimes it is easy to do other times not so much.

 

[wyroberts]

I haven’t tried it, but have a buddy who heated his with one of the mini diesel heaters from Amazon. Said it would cook you out of the tent and run all night. Won’t feel the same as good ol wood heat, but you don’t have to stoke it.

 

[Jason Snyder]

Like someone else had mentioned, after about two nights I have to take top two pieces of stove pipe of and clean out the soot. I normally just drop it on the ground few times and it’s good to go. I noticed if I don’t do that, it dose t get as good flow

Try getting the flue good and hot and then hit the side of it with a piece of wood. Usually all the creosote will fall down into the stove.

 

[SteveAndTheCrigBoys]

I don’t know how yall can crawl into a sleeping bag with the stove going. I can barely lay on top of the bag much less get into it.

I have to go to sleep an hour after my buddies, sit around for an hour in my skivvies until the tent cools off enough.