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Back story first. I like to ski but I've always found that the money for on snow accommodation hard to find so I've been using a camp site in the National Park and tenting it.
But as I get older and stiffer I need to use a cot/stretcher to sleep on and I sold the Helsport lavvu to somebody in Canada because I now need a tent I can use a tall cot in.
I've bought a good quality and reasonably heavy duty tent for the Southern winter 2021 but it needs some modifications to use above the snow line.
The main modification needed is fitting it out for use with a stove.
I'd like to keep as much of the flue inside the tent as possible but for practical reasons it will probably exit via a side wall and as the tent has big side windows I thought that this was the obvious place to put the stove jack.
The inner tent has mesh screens where the external windows are; I was going to cover the whole area with fabric and cut away some to allow the flue to exit.
My question really is on the best orientation of the stove itself relative to long and narrow tent and whether or not it makes much difference in set-up.
In actual use does it make much difference if the stove is parallel or at right angles to the long axis of a tent?
The tent is 2400mm wide [ about 8 feet] and 3600 deep with a sloping rear section and I was naturally intending to put the cot at the back of the tent; the stove itself is only 300mm deep but because the tent walls are at an angle the stove comes out to the half way point.
This being for Australia where the snow is wet and heavy I am going to be using a secondary fly over the top supported by the strongest poles I can get into the camp site.
Here's a link to the tent series in question, these tents are no longer available but spare poles are, I got mine at a huge discount on clearance.
When the renovation mess in my back yard has been cleaned up I'll erect the tent and take pictures but I have about 8 months from now to get this organised, because the floor of the inner is sewn in I may have to pay somebody to do the sewing unless unstitching is an option.
I have thought about using a cheap fibreglass fireblanket as the fabric to replace the mesh, I wonder if anybody has done that before?
I have bought some 12mm Easton poles from TPT to replace a couple of the cheap Chinese poles but the centre poles will stay as made and I'll buy some spares before next winter.
Back story first. I like to ski but I've always found that the money for on snow accommodation hard to find so I've been using a camp site in the National Park and tenting it.
But as I get older and stiffer I need to use a cot/stretcher to sleep on and I sold the Helsport lavvu to somebody in Canada because I now need a tent I can use a tall cot in.
I've bought a good quality and reasonably heavy duty tent for the Southern winter 2021 but it needs some modifications to use above the snow line.
The main modification needed is fitting it out for use with a stove.
I'd like to keep as much of the flue inside the tent as possible but for practical reasons it will probably exit via a side wall and as the tent has big side windows I thought that this was the obvious place to put the stove jack.
The inner tent has mesh screens where the external windows are; I was going to cover the whole area with fabric and cut away some to allow the flue to exit.
My question really is on the best orientation of the stove itself relative to long and narrow tent and whether or not it makes much difference in set-up.
In actual use does it make much difference if the stove is parallel or at right angles to the long axis of a tent?
The tent is 2400mm wide [ about 8 feet] and 3600 deep with a sloping rear section and I was naturally intending to put the cot at the back of the tent; the stove itself is only 300mm deep but because the tent walls are at an angle the stove comes out to the half way point.
This being for Australia where the snow is wet and heavy I am going to be using a secondary fly over the top supported by the strongest poles I can get into the camp site.
Here's a link to the tent series in question, these tents are no longer available but spare poles are, I got mine at a huge discount on clearance.
When the renovation mess in my back yard has been cleaned up I'll erect the tent and take pictures but I have about 8 months from now to get this organised, because the floor of the inner is sewn in I may have to pay somebody to do the sewing unless unstitching is an option.
I have thought about using a cheap fibreglass fireblanket as the fabric to replace the mesh, I wonder if anybody has done that before?
I have bought some 12mm Easton poles from TPT to replace a couple of the cheap Chinese poles but the centre poles will stay as made and I'll buy some spares before next winter.
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