[Sca-cooks] Stove for my tent!

[Sue Clemenger]

Maire chimes in:
I used to do a *LOT* of stove jacks in our canvas tents, the smallest of
which was 9'x12'.  The ones we used were made of some sort of coated
fiberglass (very itchy if you needed to cut it for any reason), with a
center ring of some sort of very tough, fairly rigid rubber-stuff.  Came
in all kinds of sizes, for different stove-pipe widths, and even came
with the option of round or oval shapes (the oval being used on a
sloping tent roof for a better fit around the pipe, and the round ones
being used more often in the tent *walls*).
We have a lot of outfitters, hunting-campers, etc. out here, so maybe we
get more of this sort of thing than other parts of the U.S.  They're
also popular with certain types of reenactors (black powder shooters,
rendezvousers), for whom canvas tents are appropriate.
--Maire, glad her tent-making's in the past now!

"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
>

> >It has been long a piece of advice my grandfather has given me.  Don't fire
> >up a stove inside your tent!  Not if you want to avoid Drakey like
> >consequences (sorry Drakey, couldn't resist!).
> >
> >Unless perhaps you're talking about a bigger tent, pavillion like, far from
> >panes of clothes and with TONS of ventilation.
>
> My guess is, Gorgeous, that is exactly what he is talking about. They have
> these special stoves built for the big wall tents like the hunting/trapping
> expeditions use, etc. You can buy teh through a variety of outfitters. They
> have a stovepipe that goes up and out (and yes, you get a special roof
> section for these) so the ventilation problems are greatly reduced.