I'm playing with the idea of "can I add a flue hole to my bivvy?"

Due to spinal surgery I now use a Nash Blockhouse bivvy and due to my medication and the fact I'm 12stone wet, I get freezing on a summer's day! 🤣

So.....has anyone used a small wood burner with a flue pipe and a proper protective hole in the roof of your bivvy?

If so, what do you use to protect your bivvy?

Does it stand on the floor? On legs? On a hard surface?

I plan to have it raised either by taller legs or on a metal table if possible.

And lastly.....what burner are you using?

TIA 😁👍

In reply to Post #1
I cant imagine many places allowing it.

In reply to Post #2
I've seen people using those Chinese diesel heaters that blow hot air this winter on the bank.

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Luckily my lakes all allow them providing they are off the ground 👍

I'm hoping to find the right unit with either long legs or use a simple metal top table to raise to a useable height.

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It's more than possible, I looked into it maybe 5 or so years ago. I wouldn't consider using it on thin aquatex type material but I would on my Mk1 Fox Frontier which has a much thicker fabric.

Have a look at the outdoor boys youtube channel, Luke often uses a hot tent and with really thin material.

20+ years ago I met some Dutch lads in France using some sort of cast iron stove and they were burning something in briquette form. Personally I much prefer that idea to wood, less chance of flying spark getting out of the flue. You can buy arrestors that go in the flue to prevent that anyway so wood is still a option.

Have a look on Ebay first types, the titanium ones look good.

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Thanks bud! I'll check them out 😁👍

I've also just seen this on YouTube that stop you needing to cut a hole in the fabric by using a two way door zip or window.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPM2QZMC?ref_=as_li_ss_tl&language=en_US&linkCode=gg4&linkId=e6834331722118f89362d02baff2409e&tag=oe-youtube-20

if you don't want to go down the hot tent route then have a google of ice fishing heaters that are used to heat huts & tents for people fishing out on lakes. super portable, efficient & not too expensive - there are electric powered versions & the gas ones have safety filters added. there
is a huge NA market for them & I expect they will be available on Ali Express

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Also on the outdoor boys channel when they fish in tents on the ice through drilled holes

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Awesome idea! Never even knew they existed!

Thanks 👍

https://outbackerstoves.co.uk/collections/hot-tent-canvas-tent

These stoves are what I've seen being used

Also remember to get a carbon monoxide detector

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Maybe get Army Andy to put a reinforced hole with a velcro flap (like the top of an ultralite skull cap) Perhaps get some high temp / fire retardant basalt cloth (also with velcro straps) and wrap it around the pipe where it exits the bivvy?

It's more than possible..

I have literally spent hours researching during the big lie..
You are going to need a spark arrestor this stops the hot debris burning ,your tent and flue height is another thing to consider.

Best Advice is these three chaps on youtube ..

Kent Survival
Simon a bloke in the woods
TA Outdoors..

I only posted recently on another forum that four pole composite Teepees would be the perfect bivvy in height ,setting up and flue access..they also can be separated interior wise ie the stove ie ,a titanium winnerwell ,or even a generic flat iron stove could work ..

Teepees,were used in atrocious wind in the past for the real indigenous population of North America etc ,so the design is tough ..

Honestly,your best best is to watch as many Bushcraft videos as you can there is so much out there to learn from..

Nb,I saw in the flesh only two weeks ago ,a Teepee design ,quick errect, that would make modern bivvys ,the rip offs ..in design that they are ..

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Thanks bud!

I'll do some research for sure 😄

But don't buy the tent that Andy just previewed in his latest video

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Haha I think I may try using that zipper insert jack and see what problems I need to overcome.

And then may pull the cord and cut a hole in the roof and protect the area etc.

Updates to follow.....

Heated clothes are a much better option surely. Can't think of one advantage of heating a tent over heated clothing other than being able to sit in shorts inside. But the counter to that is when you have to go outside and you're cold.

Ring up a couple of local call girls.

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Bad joke deleted Lol. In all seriousness, just keep yourself warm with quality clothing. Maybe a heated gilet or just a hot water bottle stuffed inside your jacket. So much easier than cutting holes in bivvies, erecting flues, keeping the burner going, cleaning it etc, etc. Probably a lot safer too,

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@19, nowhere near as much fun though!

Re the tents, I quite like the flue going out of the side, the ridgemonkey bivvy would lend itself to that really well for longer stays.

Agreed on the heated clothing, I use a heated gilet for day sessions etc

But this would be for those longer week sessions and I also like the work of keeping the fire going etc 😎

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I'd go the diesel route, there should be no danger of fumes are the air is blown over the self contained heating element, just need a portable power source to get it going, americans use these all the time for camping

Plenty of videos on YouTube of how to make a chimney through the top. Fantastic too.

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Funnily enough I was chatting to a chap yesterday who had a small log burner in his bivvy, think it was an old Tempest that he had cut a hole in the top for the flue to go through

Watch the kent survival vid where the pump up tent costing£1750 sprung a leak and collapsed. Scary stuff, could hsve been very nasty.