[Sca-cooks] Re: Stove for my tent!

[Sudden Service #5]

Hej!
    I would not fire up a propane stove in a modern tent.  The period
marquise I have is 15' x 18' with 6' 6" side walls & a 12' peak (I used to
merchant on both the SCA & Rendezvous circuits & plan to do so again in the
future).  It has also been treated with flame retardant.  I am having the
stove jack put in the side wall by Tentsmiths the company that made the
tent.  After years of camping in cold wet weather (including hypothermia in
FL one January) I am ready to stay warm at night & cook even if we have a
downpour.  It will also allow me to invite my cold wet friends into the tent
for a game of chance & a hot toddy on those cold wet nights.
    The reason I have purchased the stove rather than making it myself (I am
a metalsmith) is that I would rather go with a proven design that is done by
an experienced welder who has done hundreds of them, than finding out that
my design did not work after I spent a large portion of my free time on
putting it together (I need to spend some of it making better garb for the
War).  Also the stove does not send toxic fumes into the tent this way.
While the stove is not period, I am willing to suffer in comfort.
Pax,
Olaf
who Drakey like burned a few of his hairs today when they got in the way of
the Little Torch while I was repairing a gold watch clasp.

----- Original Messages -----
> 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, pavilion like, far from
> panes of clothes and with TONS of ventilation.
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd

> 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.
>
> We are not talking about a little propane heater here...
> 'Lainie

> OK Olaf, you scare me.
> Why in snails earth did you choose to *purchase* something like this when
> you could have had you local armorer ~make~ it for you and pay them????
> Olwen, just humming a tune...

> 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,
> rendezvous), for whom canvas tents are appropriate.
> --Maire, glad her tent-making's in the past now!
>