Tent Heater

“Can someone help me with understanding a safe tent heater? How much ventilation will it require, the safest, the most reliable, etc. Thanks for your time!”

“Ventilation. Just fire that puppy up full blast. It should melt the roof of your tent before you could get carbon monoxide poisoning.”

“People die every year from using these things.

If you want to use an unvented heater, leave all the doors and windows open and use a carbon monoxide detector.

Better yet, carry appropriate sleeping gear and don't waste your money on a potentially fatal piece of gear.”

“I have reported on people who fired up space heaters inside the tent and never woke up. The question you need to ask yourself is, would I rather die of freezing to death or asphyxiation?

Violin's advice is accurate, much as it pains me to admit he's right. But he is in this case.

Ultimately, I stopped taking overnight trips in winter because I discovered that I just didn't like being out in the cold all that time.

But a good winter sleeping bag and a four-season tent with vestibule are minimum requirements for winter camping in my book. Not a space heater, unless you are looking for a painless way to commit suicide.”

“Violin and Geobeet, I suspect you fellers have just been reeled in by the latest troll...








But seriously, just build a campfire in your tent...”

“I didn't even know such a thing existed. Why would you winter camp if you wanted a heater, isn't that defeating the purpose of freezing your butt off and living to tell the story?”

“They're selling barrel stoves at the local Army-Navy store for hunter's tents. All you need is a string of pack horses and you're set!”

“I like the Camptrails "TrollFire 32." I got one for my ex-wife and it did the job nicely.”

“I'm always torn about how to respond to questions like the one from newbcamper. Should I give serious advice and potentially fall victim to the trollbait? Or should I just ignore it.

Usually I just ignore it. Too bad if newbcamper really doesn't know that heating your tent just isn't done much anymore (unless you're talking one of those huge hunter's basecamp tents which actually have a special hole in it for the flue of a stove to go through). But that's one of the costs of trolls...”

“Fritz- I hear those trolls burn for days.”

“Ya gotta try this....
It was 5deg outside
and this....Scott and Corrine around the stove

I didn't want to post pictures to save band width, so you will just have to do it the old way.....”

“Just to let ya know, it does have a stove pipe”

“mtnsteve, you're linking from protected pages - you need to go to your public community page, then to the photos, and get the link from there. If you have further questions, MrHyde can probably answer them.... :-)”

“bit -- I know what you mean. I was going to ignore it...but I just couldn't. :-)”

“Duh........your right..I tested it on my computer, but those are my password pages..I'll have to fix it when I get back (going shopping for a 10 day)...sorry.”

“From now on when somebody posts a message about heaters in tents I will respond, "Please do!"”

“Just eat two bowls of beans and rice one hour before you retire for the night.....

you won't need a heater...”

“You need a tent like this



and a stove like this


and one of these rigs

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“Quick fix...
Scott and Corrine around the stove

and....stovepipe
and...it was 5 deg outside

If this dosent work, I'll be back later...”

“Pathman, that could almost be my hometown!”

“Works now mtnsteve.

Is that middle link one of those sil nylon tents? Sil nylon and fire opens a whole nother can-o-worms.

Like the tent though.”

“I WAS my hometown. (The feedstore and Alaska Tent and Tarp, that is.)”

“Forget the heater......rub two people together.”

“Just put Crazy Mike in there- he puts out about 5,000 Btus/hr”

“Or if you go winter camping w/ TOOL, they can put on a huge, rockin' show and that will heat everything up.”

“I once saw a two-man backpacking tent with a wrod-burning stove that only weighed 6lbs.

Wish I could find the link. It looked pretty cool.”

“Soak the tent good with Girl Scout juice, crawl inside, get in the sleeping bag all nice and snuggy, and light a match.”

“A "wrodburning" stove?

Maybe that's the same as a "tool".”

“Is it made from REAL Girl Scouts?”

“You know what I meant, TOM!”

“Girl Scout Juice? Whadda' Fa'?”

“A candle lantern will increase the temperature quite a bit.

They make chemical heaters for hands and feet. I suppose if you could carry enough of them...”

“My wife took some training to be a Girl Scout leader, and apparently there is a concoction known as "Girl Scout juice" which is not a petroleum-based charcoal starter, but will help you get a fire started quickly. It's probably alcohol or some such. Girl Scouts may not use charcoal starter to get a fire going, it's against their rules.”

“Girl Scout juice usually refers to Coleman fuel.”

“Well slap my mouth...lol...I thought Coleman fuel was banned too...I know charcoal starter is out, out, out...”

“Light and hang...adds heat as well as light, if the tent is 4 season, the heat difference inside the tent will be significant when compared to the outdoor temp. Three season tents with a lot of mesh let to much of the heat escape.”

“Wow, thanks for explaining Bit. I was really scared for a minute. I only made it as a Brownie, so I don't know all the Girl Scout codes and secrets.”

“Really? You never got your bong hit merrit badge?”

“Yah my daughter's a Brownie. My wife is taking her and her troop on their first "camping trip" in a couple of weeks.”

“sears has a remote controlled tent light..i want that!!!”

“Two nekkid bodies thrashin' in a sleeping bag.”

“Get a dog.
A 70 pounder should do it...”

“Well, Rosey, I didn't really belong to an official club when I got that badge. LOL!”

“The important thing is you persevered and finally obtained it!! Good Job, NEWGIE!”

“Thanks. There were times when I doubted myself, but after I moved to Holland and went through the training camp, I was fully confident and it paid of. LOL!

Hey, did you see my question for you on the perspective thread?”

“Along the same lines as gojo,

I imagine the best tent heater would be tall, dark and handsome man with a warm, flirtatious smile to melt my heart! Aaaaaaahhh...

OH! Back to reality. :(”

“Sunshine, I htought you were gonna say "with a warm gun in his pocket." LOL!

NG: Check the thread!”

“k”

“Was this your Merit Badge instructor?


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