The 20 day winter camp . Carry in on tobbogans .Pic heavy


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We test the insulated bakers tent with wood burner .
First carry out the tent proper with a 106 pound tobbogan .
Wanted more snow but running out of time before the camp out .
Does not tow too bad even on frozen leaves . Mud would be a pain though .


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Built an extra throw away tobbogan for the insulation . Lots of volume not much weight . 32 pounds with shovel . Assemble optional poles . These are necessary if on state land or no saplings available .



Late start in the afternoon . Ready at my command ...... camp





Lay out the tarp and then feed through the main insulation .



Making progress but dark is fast approaching .



Lay out the wood burner for assembly .



Gathered sticks and small test person to check for warmth .



All in all about 3 to 4 hours to fire in the hearth .

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Are you going to be living in that for 20 days straight?
Now that's cool!!
 
Allright , put about a 5 inch diamater Elm log in the burner at 11 pm . Hopefully I can drag out of bed before 8 am (still sleeping in the house for now)to see if I have hot coals which is my goal . Cut back the inlet air pretty hard so hopefully itll make it .
 
Great Pics and Sounds Like a Great 20 Days! Love the tobbogan. Thanks for sharing the few days so far!
 
OFFDMAP said:
Are you going to be living in that for 20 days straight?
Now that's cool!!
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ODM ,
No I'm not but I hope to leave it up for 20 days to see how it stands up to snow load etc . I will spend the night off and on .
I have taken it down now to address some issues .
1 . Need another 10 foot crossbar on the front to help hold the woodburner vestibule .
2. Have to have a much better entry then undoing the side panel over and over .
3. Have to seal up the side panels better ( see number 2)
4. Need much longer and stouter stakes for high winds and ground not frozen . If possible of course you could tie off to surrounding trees , but Im trying not to do that for test reasons .

Will post pics of upcoming camp out / rendevous sponsored by Michigan Guys .
 
Packing up the whole shebang in the mini van to take to MIDVIMs rendevous .
Unfortunately no snow I bet . We still have snow here in the shade but fading fast .
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LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THIS THING TOMORROW!

I have taken the day off so I can be there earlier than posted before. I should be there by 1300 hrs (1pm) Call me when you're close. I can help you set it up.
 
Ok , Drug it all up to LFBs rendevous . LFB helped me set it up . Still about 3 hours to fire in the hearth . LFB came back and took my photo enjoying the fire .(I left the right side off for photo op ) This wood burner after draft is established can be opened up and used as a fire place which I like .

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Here is the door I added . You simply roll it up . Much better this way .
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Here are the Bushcrafters at LFBs outing .
Lsft to right LFB, Three Fires, Looker and meh .
It looks like my pants are quite dirty , but thats pancake flour . 3fires brought a bunch of his delicious Maple syrup and we had to make pancakes on top of the wood burner which can be used as a griddle .
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It was ok to gather dead wood and I found a Red Cedar tree . This wood is so aromatic when burning it's almost like incense . I used LFBs new bushcrafter saw which is the next best thing to a Stihl . Matter of fact I had it at my hooch so much most of the guys thought it was mine I think .
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Looker is without a doubt the master of paracord . He can braid anything .
Somebody in Afganistan dared him to make a thong and I talked him into modeling it for me . Check out the tutorial on making a paracord dogleash . It's so much more then just a leash with about 2000 pound breaking point .

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Well all good things must come to an end so the Michigan guys broke camp at about 2 pm . It took them about a half hour . They offered to help break down the hooch , but I just wanted to take my time . So before I know its sunset .
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And then , leaving the park this most beautiful moonrise . See what you miss you ultra lighters .
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Thanks for posting the pics brother, I never took any! That's a great shelter you built. It was great to meet you guys, and I look forward to the next time.

My wife just shook her head when she saw the thong. She never thought she'd see it posted on a public forum! I want to make it clear to everyone that the picture of me is the closest that thong has ever come to being "modeled"!

Looker
 
Woods Walker said:
Joe.

How is that stove working out?
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WW the stove work great . I put an Oak log in there Fri. night at 2 AM and at 7 AM had a nice bed of coals . Just threw on some 1 inch sticks and had a nice fire to warm the hooch .
The next night I tried the same with the Red Cedar and barely had any coals at all after 4 hours .
I should say the Oak I picked up off the ground so it was a smoulder er and the Cedar was quite dry .
I brought along some really dry elm to get things going .
When 3 Fires brought his Maple Syrup and handed bottles out to everyone I just had to try the griddle top on the stove . Took a few burnt pancakes to get the hang of it but after getting a pile of 1/2 inch sticks to add slowly to the coals I learned how to adjust the heat pretty well .
I love the fire place aspect of this burner since you can play with the fire roast vienna sausages on a stick and you would not beliieve the radiant heat that comes off that fire when you open the door . Actually once I started the fire on Fri. night I kept a fire in the hearth until Sun afternoon continuoulsly .

OK thats the positives . As you know the burner weighs a ton and although it doesn't take too long to put together the stack is a PITA .
The same with the hooch of course . If you were setting up a deer camp or permanent type camp on your own land it's fine . To use it for a weekend camp doesn't make a lot of sense since you are dedicateing 6 to 8 hours to putting everything together .
I'm working now on a redesign of the burner .This time I'm going to use much lighter gauge stainless and simplify the design . I will still use the wide rectangular door just because I like a fire place . Also the griddle top will be part of the new one . The stack I'm going to taper and just nest each section inside the other and then just stack em and let gravity hold em together .
I think the stove will just be a permanent box about 12 X 13 X 22 and the nested stack will all fit inside the stove . This probabley still won't work for backpackers , but won't take up so much room on a toboggen . Should be able to assemble in under 10 minutes I hope .
 
Looker said:
Thanks for posting the pics brother, I never took any! That's a great shelter you built. It was great to meet you guys, and I look forward to the next time.

My wife just shook her head when she saw the thong. She never thought she'd see it posted on a public forum! I want to make it clear to everyone that the picture of me is the closest that thong has ever come to being "modeled"!

Looker
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It is so cool to see what everbody else is doing . It's also kind of humbling because you see how all the other guys seem to have everything so together .
LFB has his gear so streamlined and has so much knowledge it's scary .
He and his group do this once a MONTH . Just think .
It was great of you to bring the anvil for 3 Fires I know he was really looking forward to that .
After attempting to make Maple syrup last year and ending up with about a pint after a ton of work I know how valuble this stuff is and here comes 3 Fires passing out syrup like it's water to all the guys .
The generosity of the bushcrafters is just astounding .
 
riverjoe said:
It is so cool to see what everbody else is doing . It's also kind of humbling because you see how all the other guys seem to have everything so together .
LFB has his gear so streamlined and has so much knowledge it's scary .
He and his group do this once a MONTH . Just think .
It was great of you to bring the anvil for 3 Fires I know he was really looking forward to that .
After attempting to make Maple syrup last year and ending up with about a pint after a ton of work I know how valuble this stuff is and here comes 3 Fires passing out syrup like it's water to all the guys .
The generosity of the bushcrafters is just astounding.
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I agree. That's why I was hapy to share what I had, people here have been very generous to me and I am always on the lookout for a chance to pay it forward.

Looker
 
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