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Looks a nice and cosy set up with the stove any chance of a review?
Cheers
Tim
"Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute;
pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois;
paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.".
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nice use of the arm hole for the flue!
If there are no women around and a man says something, is he still wrong?
Sue, I love your trip reports but that setup is an accident waiting to happen IMHO
Richard
South Wales UK
As long as you keep a controlled burn (no wild bonfires in the stove) and keep a tent flap partially open to provide ventilation, there's really nothing to worry about...except waking up slightly chilly and having to re-stoke the fire.
Hot tenting is very effective in that you don't necessarily need a super-duper arctic-rated sleeping bag, you can compromise and let the stove make up the difference in providing warmth. And because the area inside a partially enclosed shelter like this one is small, it doesn't take much to make a hot tent HOT.
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~ Abraham Lincoln
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~ Cody Lundin
Great pictures and good see one in action.
Yes, I'm really liking these P'lavvu's, I have just bought two and shall have a look at them when I get back from India in February.
I may attach a third half tent poncho to extend the width a little by two foot, and shall certainly put a 2 foot removable extension skirt on the bottom to extend the height.
I am quite interested in building a wood stove to fit inside and until I do I will just try to heat the tent with a hurricane lantern and cook on a small wood gas burner.
I'm looking forward to seeing my new P'lavvu's with my own eyes.
Last edited by Boucaneer; 18-10-2015 at 11:34 PM.
That is true. But for comfy reasons I'd rather go with an arctic rated sleeping bag and no stove if I was sleeping alone, rather than waking up shivering trough the night because the heat has gone out.
Maybe I was pampered in the army as when we where winter hot tenting, regulations said that each tent needed a fire watch, and with a squad of nine rotating between radio, on stag, fire sleep, that was no problem, the tent was always hot, with a red hot stove vibrating with heat in the tent, hehe.
But still won't trade that with a night in the hammock :-)
Victory awaits the one, that has everything in order - luck we call it
Defeat is an absolute consequense for the one that have neglected to do the necessary preparations - bad luck we call it
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You just insulted generations of Norwegian infantry soldiers who put their pride in how many nights they have in their "button tents" as we call these. I have spent nighst down to minus 30*C in them, in the mountains, heated with a single Optimus 111 stove...but okay, it was a whole squad in there, and with one tent sheath (poncho if you must) for every man. it gets to be quite a sizeable tent.
Here is a 7 sheath tent (sleeps seven squaddies with full kit, but I have to admit that if you are afraid of a little same sex intimacy, it's not for you, lol)
Victory awaits the one, that has everything in order - luck we call it
Defeat is an absolute consequense for the one that have neglected to do the necessary preparations - bad luck we call it
(Roald Amundsen)
Bumbling Bushcraft on Youtube
Nordisk Bushcraft - The Nordic bushcraft blog and forum