Robin - Thanks for sharing your photos and adventure. I really enjoy the idea of hot tenting and seeing your photos the last couple of years makes it seem very doable. Can you give us an idea on the tent you have? Did you retrofit it for hot tenting or did it come ready with the stovepipe access, etc. Also, I remember you saying previously that you made an interior frame for your tent which begs the question; what make/model tent is it? Do you feel it's more stable with the interior framework or just easier to pitch? Last one for now (I promise), what's the overall weight/size of your tent; I apologize if you've already given us that and I missed it.
That's all for now. Take care and until next time...Be well.
snapper
I bought that tent new from a company out west, I don't remember which company it was, it came with a 12x12x24 wood stove and an angle kit to make the interior frame. It was originally 8'x10' by 6'4" tall. I used electrical conduit for the interior frame pipes. It worked well for a car camping set up, but it was too big for a solo canoe in fish/hunt camp. You could hang off the frame, but it weighed a ton. Here is what the set up looked like new. You can just barley see the stove jack coming out of the front right roof, and you can see the tarp needed a metal jack to fit around the stove pipe.
To be able to use the tent like I wanted, I re-sized it to about 7'wide, 6' deepand 54" tall. I ditched the electrical conduit and use wood dowels for the frame. Here's the new frame, I doubt it has the strength of traditional exterior poles, but it can be strengthened by adding additional vertical poles along the ridge and the outside tie downs keep the whole rig planted firmly in place. It is strong enough for what I need, it will take a strong wind and I have had it out with 6" of snow on the roof. I don't winter camp, so it's good for 3 plus seasons. The tent weighs 17 lbs, the stove and pipe 16 lbs and tent, stove, tarp, ropes, pegs all fit into a #3 Duluth pack for transport.
Here's the stove as it is now, (12" wide x 8" high x 12 deep and the pipes fit inside for transport and the legs fold under the stove) The hole in the top is for faster cooking, I have a plate of sheet metal that fits over the hole when nothing is being heated, it gets locked in place with rivet heads in the small holes in the stove. I also place a support stick outside the tent to keep the stove pipe from moving in the wind, it was absent in some earlier pictures.
I moved the stove jack from the roof to the front of the tent, no more sparks on the roof and the tarp doesn't need a metal jack like before. Here I was learning, the pipe should tilt up for a proper draft. You can see the hems where I sewed the panels back together.
