Agreed with Blackrock. What a great picture!

blackrock wrote:Wow, magnificent photo!

Regarding the wood stove, I was wondering if hot embers might land on the fabric and melt pin holes in it. The photo shows they could in calm winds, I suppose. Have you had that happen?

I haven't had any trouble with spark holes, but it's possible. In the event you do get some holes, dab of silicone on the hole will fix it.

A lot of it depends on what wood you're burning, of course. Low sap hardwoods aren't going to throw many sparks, where as cedar or fir will throw a ton. Most of what I burn is lodge pole pine, and while there is an occasional spark I've never gotten a hole in the tent.

The chimney has a really good spark arrestor. The photo shows what happens when you accidentally throw a piece of super-pitchy doug fir on a hot oak fire. The fir was for making tinder, not for regular burning.

Also, that's a 30 second photo, so the sparks look a lot more impressive than they really were. Here's what it looks like while burning just oak:

Has anyone tired putting a piece of lump coal in their tent wood stove?

whee wrote:Has anyone tired putting a piece of lump coal in their tent wood stove?

I don't squander my christmas presents lightly, so no. Heat wise I'm not sure what would happen with the titanium. But while several winters in northern India gives me a distinct nostalgia for the smell of coal smoke, it's just not a smell I want inside my tent when I can have alder wood or lodgepole pine instead.

Hammer,

Amazing picture.

Frank

Some years ago, a local Boy Scout leader died after his air mattress sprung a leak inside his tent while he was sleeping. It seems he was in the habit of using his trucks tailpipe to inflate his mattress, hard to believe but he'd been doing it for years.

courierguy wrote:Some years ago, a local Boy Scout leader died after his air mattress sprung a leak inside his tent while he was sleeping. It seems he was in the habit of using his trucks tailpipe to inflate his mattress, hard to believe but he'd been doing it for years.

courierguy, while I find most of your posts completely lucid, I'm struggling to find a nexus between this antidote and heated tents. Am I missing something?

Well, the tie in is that the air mattress would be quite warm, besides being fully inflated.

Hammer wrote:

courierguy wrote:Some years ago, a local Boy Scout leader died after his air mattress sprung a leak inside his tent while he was sleeping. It seems he was in the habit of using his trucks tailpipe to inflate his mattress, hard to believe but he'd been doing it for years.

courierguy, while I find most of your posts completely lucid, I'm struggling to find a nexus between this antidote and heated tents. Am I missing something?

Boy, you must be a hard core programmer or engineer of some kind. I doubt if there is much of a "nexus" here to comprehend . Im sure you must mean anecdote, Unless your trying to refer to an "antidote" for CO poisoning. haha. I think it was just meant as an interesting, and yes somewhat amusing minor digression from the topic. I think that's allowed, aint it?

Edit: Along the same line, I doubt it would be wise to inflate your air mattress with propane either. This would not go well in a heated tent.

Other than the last four posts, this has been a very informative thread. These new lightweight tents/tipis are a great option for pilots.

I wrote an edgy rap based on the word "nexus" but I've decided to censor myself. Let's just say Malcom McDowell is a big fan.

Well I'm completely lost. But when it comes to edgy rap you can't beat http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/ask-si ... -lot-12240

Hammer wrote:Well I'm completely lost. But when it comes to edgy rap you can't beat http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/ask-si ... -lot-12240

I'm in tears.

Zzz wrote:

Hammer wrote:Well I'm completely lost. But when it comes to edgy rap you can't beat http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/ask-si ... -lot-12240

I'm in tears.

x2. That was great.

I love the circuitous, free-flowing route by which these threads roam. I don't need a heated tent in Florida, but I'm always looking to expand my knowledge base while simultaneously discovering several more terms for the male member.

Hammer, great pictures and thanks for all the info. It's very useful.

Brett

courierguy wrote:Some years ago, a local Boy Scout leader died after his air mattress sprung a leak inside his tent while he was sleeping. It seems he was in the habit of using his trucks tailpipe to inflate his mattress, hard to believe but he'd been doing it for years.

Out of curiosity I googled this and was astonished at the number of people who think this is a good idea...

UH-60andC-180 wrote:I love the circuitous, free-flowing route my which these threads roam. I don't need a heated tent in Florida, but I'm always looking to expand my knowledge base while simultaneously discovering several more terms for the male member.

Hammer, great pictures and thanks for all the info. It's very useful.

Brett

X2.

Im seriously considering selling everything, and buying a remote piece of property and living in an Arctic Oven. To hell with this rat race.....

No. It's the MSR XGK stove. I've had mine for decades and they are fantastic. But very loud yes.

http://www.backcountry.com/msr-xgk-ex-stove?CMP_SKU=CAS0365&MER=0406&skid=CAS0365-MF-ONSI&CMP_ID=PLA_GOc001&mv_pc=r101&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PLA&mr:trackingCode=DFBD5351-3F84-DF11-9DA0-002219319097&mr:referralID=NA&mr:device=c&mr:adType=plaonline&mr:ad=89620504837&mr:keyword=&mr:match=&mr:tid=aud-112578408019:pla-92798244757&mr:ploc=9028883&mr:iloc=&mr:store=&mr:filter=92798244757&gclid=Cj0KEQiAq920BRC8-efn57XrotYBEiQAlVlMQzMY8kz5PG7xsfJc1itk9z-MwSESN4HXdoanHoa2tHMaAkh_8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

Hammer wrote:

jrc111 wrote:So, is the best MSR International stove the Dragonfly?

Ron

It's the best stove I've found for preheating an airplane because it'll burn 100LL and it puts out a LOT of heat, but I despise it for cooking. It's so freakishly loud that I'd rather eat cold food than cook with it. You can't even hold a conversation within ten feet of the damn thing. The design of the airplane heater quiets it down a lot, and in that application the noise is sort of a bonus because you can instantly hear when it's gone out.

soyAnarchisto wrote:No. It's the MSR XGK stove. I've had mine for decades and they are fantastic. But very loud yes.

http://www.backcountry.com/msr-xgk-ex-stove?CMP_SKU=CAS0365&MER=0406&skid=CAS0365-MF-ONSI&CMP_ID=PLA_GOc001&mv_pc=r101&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PLA&mr:trackingCode=DFBD5351-3F84-DF11-9DA0-002219319097&mr:referralID=NA&mr:device=c&mr:adType=plaonline&mr:ad=89620504837&mr:keyword=&mr:match=&mr:tid=aud-112578408019:pla-92798244757&mr:ploc=9028883&mr:iloc=&mr:store=&mr:filter=92798244757&gclid=Cj0KEQiAq920BRC8-efn57XrotYBEiQAlVlMQzMY8kz5PG7xsfJc1itk9z-MwSESN4HXdoanHoa2tHMaAkh_8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

Hammer wrote:

jrc111 wrote:So, is the best MSR International stove the Dragonfly?

Ron

It's the best stove I've found for preheating an airplane because it'll burn 100LL and it puts out a LOT of heat, but I despise it for cooking. It's so freakishly loud that I'd rather eat cold food than cook with it. You can't even hold a conversation within ten feet of the damn thing. The design of the airplane heater quiets it down a lot, and in that application the noise is sort of a bonus because you can instantly hear when it's gone out.

I've not used that stove. Have you used it with avgas? It looks like it has a generator tube to atomize the fuel, and MSR does not list it as being a gasoline-compatible model.

My MSR Whisperlite stove also has a generator tube, which makes it unusable with 100ll. Essentially, the lead in the fuel crystalizes inside the generator tube and stops the flow of fuel after a few minutes. You can clean the tube out and use the stove again, but it won't burn gasoline with any consistency, and it won't burn 100ll for more than a few minutes.

The Dragonfly doesn't use a generator tube to atomize the fuel...it just squirts liquid fuel onto a hot piece of metal to atomize it, so there's nothing to clog.

To keep things relevant here's another picture of a tent.