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It's a baker tent[1] made from SOL Emergency Blankets[2]. They get warm, but what doesn't when you have a long fire in front of you. [1] http://ruralsportsman.

It's a baker tent[1] made from SOL Emergency Blankets[2]. They get warm, but what doesn't when you have a long fire in front of you. [1] http://ruralsportsman.com/rediscover-the-baker-tent/ http://ruralsportsman.com/rediscover-the-baker-tent/ [2] https://www.surviveoutdoorslonger.com/survive-outdoors-longer-emergency-blanket.html https://www.surviveoutdoorslonger.com/survive-outdoors-longe...

kag0 5y ago
The idea sounds fun, but I'm a little skeptical of the author's claims that it'll get to 80 degrees with only a small fire in front of it. It's quite possible the author and I have different ideas of what a small backpacking fire looks like.
- colonelxc 5y ago
  One of the videos has a kid read off a thermometer at 79 degrees (with snow on the ground). You can judge for yourself the size of the fire in that video.
- oblib 5y ago
  I can say without any worry of being proved wrong that it is very easy to warm that tent to 80+ degrees with even a small campfire like the one seen in the video with my grandson bouncing around inside it. I use a layer of thicker branches about 3" in diameter first, then I use smaller diameter sticks in layers on top of that. When you light that off the smaller sticks burn down and create a bed of coals on the first layer that keep fuel burning as it's added. By design that burns low and slow. I'm also burning deadfall from hardwoods, Oak and Hickory by choice, and because that's what's growing in our forest here.
- jandrese 5y ago
  Isn't that when you have the sun shining right into the tent? It's basically a human size solar oven.
  - oblib 5y ago
    Yep. The sun will warm it too.
jupp0r 5y ago
SOL blankets are made from polyethylene which is highly flammable. Seems like a great idea to end up with third degree burns miles from civilization.
- oblib 5y ago
  If you can't build and manage a campfire that will not ignite that tent you really shouldn't ever build a campfire anywhere because all campfires are flammable.
dylan604 5y ago
>They get warm, but what doesn't when you have a long fire in front of you. The shitty fireplace in my piss poor excuse of an 80s designed house. It's almost as if it was included as a check mark in a real estate listing rather than how to make it useful.
- nate_meurer 5y ago
  Yes. And a hole-in-the-wall fireplace will reliably cause a house to get colder in the winter, by sucking warm interior air up and out the chimney, to be replaced with cold outside air drafted in through leaks in the envelope and HVAC penetrations.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    >cold outside air drafted in through leaks in the envelope Oh, I have plenty of those too! Luckily, in my neck of the woods, winters are more of rare occurrence. We typically only have extra summer followed by late fall before spring arrives.

kag0 5y ago

The idea sounds fun, but I'm a little skeptical of the author's claims that it'll get to 80 degrees with only a small fire in front of it. It's quite possible the author and I have different ideas of what a small backpacking fire looks like.

colonelxc 5y ago
One of the videos has a kid read off a thermometer at 79 degrees (with snow on the ground). You can judge for yourself the size of the fire in that video.
oblib 5y ago
I can say without any worry of being proved wrong that it is very easy to warm that tent to 80+ degrees with even a small campfire like the one seen in the video with my grandson bouncing around inside it. I use a layer of thicker branches about 3" in diameter first, then I use smaller diameter sticks in layers on top of that. When you light that off the smaller sticks burn down and create a bed of coals on the first layer that keep fuel burning as it's added. By design that burns low and slow. I'm also burning deadfall from hardwoods, Oak and Hickory by choice, and because that's what's growing in our forest here.
jandrese 5y ago
Isn't that when you have the sun shining right into the tent? It's basically a human size solar oven.
- oblib 5y ago
  Yep. The sun will warm it too.

jupp0r 5y ago

SOL blankets are made from polyethylene which is highly flammable. Seems like a great idea to end up with third degree burns miles from civilization.

oblib 5y ago
If you can't build and manage a campfire that will not ignite that tent you really shouldn't ever build a campfire anywhere because all campfires are flammable.

dylan604 5y ago

>They get warm, but what doesn't when you have a long fire in front of you. The shitty fireplace in my piss poor excuse of an 80s designed house. It's almost as if it was included as a check mark in a real estate listing rather than how to make it useful.

nate_meurer 5y ago
Yes. And a hole-in-the-wall fireplace will reliably cause a house to get colder in the winter, by sucking warm interior air up and out the chimney, to be replaced with cold outside air drafted in through leaks in the envelope and HVAC penetrations.
- dylan604 5y ago
  >cold outside air drafted in through leaks in the envelope Oh, I have plenty of those too! Luckily, in my neck of the woods, winters are more of rare occurrence. We typically only have extra summer followed by late fall before spring arrives.