Keeping wall tent warm throughout the night.

[mahonsr]

What do you do in the morning after you have the fire good and warm but now need to leave to hunt. Just damper it all down or do you put the fire out? Picking up my first walk tent and stove this weekend and man I’m like a kid at Christmas

 

[Tmac]

Local guy builds these and you can get a rack around the stove to hold rocks. The rack is an interesting twist.

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[SwiftShot]

Local guy builds these and you can get a rack around the stove to hold rocks. The rack is an interesting twist.

Canvas wall tent stove - sporting goods - by owner - sale - craigslist

All my wood stoves are Not 325.00 that is a base price for a cubic mini ! Stoves are square box design giving greater capacity then round stoves, Available with 3in 4in 5in or 6 inch outlets slip in...

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Yes but it adds weight and is just more stuff. Just put stones under and around it. They will warm up and slowly release heat later. If you get rocks on the stove and thise rocks have any water. They can explode.

 

[Watrdawg]

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.

When I was in the Army back in the 80's that is what we used to heat our tents in the winter. We were in the filed in Germany for 2 weeks in Feb. It didn't get above 10 degrees the whole time. Our diesel stoves kept our tent warm as can be. They are a pain to start but once they get going they are great and put out a ton of heat.

 

[chizelhead]

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.

If doing this, I recommend avoiding river rocks. Potential trapped moisture can cause the rocks to explode.

 

[svivian]

Yes but it adds weight and is just more stuff. Just put stones under and around it. They will warm up and slowly release heat later. If you get rocks on the stove and thise rocks have any water. They can explode.

I think thats the point of the cage versus just putting rocks loosely around the stove. Also he does mention using at your own risk.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

I have a small Wallas diesel heater in my boat and that think will cook you out of there. We only use it when it's really cold.

 

[SwiftShot]

I think thats the point of the cage versus just putting rocks loosely around the stove. Also he does mention using at your own risk.

If you put them on the ground they dont get hot enough to explode
The water trapped in them needs to boil to explode them. Putting the rock touching the stove is dangerous. Putting it on the ground under and close by they just act as a big thermal sink.

 

[GotDraw?]

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

HAhaha- maybe not

I'm a guy over 60, I like bringing a know it all punk kid along. They always go minimilist/uber light and bring too light a bag (ounce counters), then they have to get up in the middle of the night to stoke the stove...

JL

 

[Loo.wii]

Vevor Diesel heater.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Vevor Diesel heater.

You can get these for less than $100 on Amazon.

 

[Pony Soldier]

A little differant reference. We found having a heavy tarp about 4" above the tent helped a lot. The problem with that was working around the stove jack that is in the roof.

I had a camp guest once burn the tent down by over loading the stove. There had been a buildup of larch needles against the stove pipe and when the pipe got hot they ignited.

When we started over with a new tent, we put an elbow in about 18" above the stove and took the pipe out the front of the tent and then put another elbow in it to get the pipe high enough to draw well. An additive to this is with some baling wire we hung a stick about a ft below the pipe. That became our sock drying stick so we started every morning with warm dry socks.

Just some thoughts to ponder.

 

[ELKOHUNTER]

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Wood while awake and the double buddy till I wake up.