whats in your camp?
04-12-2005, 05:53 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location:
Posts: 13
whats in your camp?
what is the best invention you have come up with to put in your camp? we like to take a keg with a removable lid and a spicket and fill it with water. then set it by the fire. then you always have hot water. what tricks have you come up with?
04-13-2005, 09:47 AM
#3
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Darien, IL
Posts: 6,744
RE: whats in your camp?
We dig a hole and do our duty in it. Dig a "fresh" hole everyday, what a wonderful way to start the day. Isn't technology awesome? I always try to get up and dig the new hole before anyone else - that way I DON'T HAVE TO FILL YESTERDAY'S HOLE!
Uncle Matt (in IL)
Uncle Matt (in IL)
04-13-2005, 02:43 PM
#5
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Rochester NY
Posts: 58
RE: whats in your camp?
Rebel----I take it that is a generator, but what does it run on and what is the kw? I'm looking for something like that, but am afraid to set it on the ground. Way to expensive to let it "grow legs".
04-13-2005, 03:15 PM
#6
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: whats in your camp?
Blue, It runs on gasoline or can be ordered for diesel.
120/240-250amps......9000 peak{8000 continious}
Can also be used for welding.I tow the travel trialer and my
son tows the generator.We don't run It doing the night
just long enough to charge the batteries and every body
else's.Use It for electric drills,run pumps,charge batteries
and weld anything in camp.
120/240-250amps......9000 peak{8000 continious}
Can also be used for welding.I tow the travel trialer and my
son tows the generator.We don't run It doing the night
just long enough to charge the batteries and every body
else's.Use It for electric drills,run pumps,charge batteries
and weld anything in camp.
04-13-2005, 05:41 PM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Waialua HI USA
Posts: 102
RE: whats in your camp?
I hunt with a crew, the senior members of whom have been doing it in the same area, LaGarita Mtns of SW CO, since 1978.
Over time, the camp has evolved into a pretty sophisticated operation.
We have a shower made of muffler pipe construction (threaded) that screws together and is wrapped with a plastic tarp using Velcro. Throw down a wood floor and string two Australian bucket rigs along the cross member and it's great.
We also have two 150 gal. tanks that we keep filled with water for showers. We simply transfer the water to metal buckets for heating. We use a small electric pump to fill the big tanks from a stream down the road (one tank will fit in the back of a pickup).
The central focus of in camp activity occurs in a surplus Army GP Medium tent. Two to three people sleep in it with the remainder sleeping in another 3/4 size (cut down) GP Med. or personal tents (3-4 people size with cots, stove, etc).
One of the more "Rube Goldberg" contraptions is a sink located in the main tent with hot and cold running water. Picture a standard style sink with separate hot and cold spigots. Water is gravity fed via hoses from two overhead buckets that fit into a combo wood / muffler pipe (screws together like the shower frame) structure. The hot water bucket is wrapped with insulation to keep the water hot. Each bucket has a lid to reduce spillage. The sink drains via another hose into a big plastic cement bucket that is drained daily.
One of the nightly chores is to empty the sink before turning in, blowing out the lines to insure water does not remain and thereby freeze. If you have camp cook duties on the day, one task is to heat water and replenish the hot water bucket.
This whole contraption breaks down and fits into a couple of boxes for off-season storage.
Also have the standard burner rig hooked up to propane tanks for cooking.
The tent floors are covered with heavy plastic sheeting.
Tents are heated with pot-bellied wood burning stoves. A couple years ago, tried switching to something akin to what is used in Coleman lamps, but whatever we were using clogged the chimney pipes twice as fast as the wood did. That’s another every other day chore for the camp cooks to “bore brush” the chimney pipes in the main tent.
We use a enclosed trailer with lock to store fresh food.
Shelving is put up serving as a pantry.
A recent addition is the "water torture" mouse trap. It's a large plasitic cement bucket with a dowl rod affixed across the open top. Bucket is about 2/3s full of water. A rotating coke can is affixed longitudinally along the dowl rod and smeared with peanut butter. A flat paint stir serves as a climbing ramp. We get 3-4 every night! Chipmonks had figured out how to "disarm" the old fashioned mouse traps.
The crapper is a fold up wood frame two holer that straddles a trench dug by the rookie hunters each year. We have a battery operated lamp that fits into the super structure (so it doesn’t get knocked in the hole like a couple roles of paper do every year…). At the end of camp we fill in the hole. In the process we stuff the old battery, about the size of your fist, down to the bottom of the hole. We tell the rookies to dig until they get to the battery, thus creating a uniform standard (paper isn’t tickling your backside by the end of the camp!)
Entire camp comes up and goes down and is packed in around three hours.
The original guys began in 1978 sleeping on the ground in a cold camp in Nov. each year.
Over time, the camp has evolved into a pretty sophisticated operation.
We have a shower made of muffler pipe construction (threaded) that screws together and is wrapped with a plastic tarp using Velcro. Throw down a wood floor and string two Australian bucket rigs along the cross member and it's great.
We also have two 150 gal. tanks that we keep filled with water for showers. We simply transfer the water to metal buckets for heating. We use a small electric pump to fill the big tanks from a stream down the road (one tank will fit in the back of a pickup).
The central focus of in camp activity occurs in a surplus Army GP Medium tent. Two to three people sleep in it with the remainder sleeping in another 3/4 size (cut down) GP Med. or personal tents (3-4 people size with cots, stove, etc).
One of the more "Rube Goldberg" contraptions is a sink located in the main tent with hot and cold running water. Picture a standard style sink with separate hot and cold spigots. Water is gravity fed via hoses from two overhead buckets that fit into a combo wood / muffler pipe (screws together like the shower frame) structure. The hot water bucket is wrapped with insulation to keep the water hot. Each bucket has a lid to reduce spillage. The sink drains via another hose into a big plastic cement bucket that is drained daily.
One of the nightly chores is to empty the sink before turning in, blowing out the lines to insure water does not remain and thereby freeze. If you have camp cook duties on the day, one task is to heat water and replenish the hot water bucket.
This whole contraption breaks down and fits into a couple of boxes for off-season storage.
Also have the standard burner rig hooked up to propane tanks for cooking.
The tent floors are covered with heavy plastic sheeting.
Tents are heated with pot-bellied wood burning stoves. A couple years ago, tried switching to something akin to what is used in Coleman lamps, but whatever we were using clogged the chimney pipes twice as fast as the wood did. That’s another every other day chore for the camp cooks to “bore brush” the chimney pipes in the main tent.
We use a enclosed trailer with lock to store fresh food.
Shelving is put up serving as a pantry.
A recent addition is the "water torture" mouse trap. It's a large plasitic cement bucket with a dowl rod affixed across the open top. Bucket is about 2/3s full of water. A rotating coke can is affixed longitudinally along the dowl rod and smeared with peanut butter. A flat paint stir serves as a climbing ramp. We get 3-4 every night! Chipmonks had figured out how to "disarm" the old fashioned mouse traps.
The crapper is a fold up wood frame two holer that straddles a trench dug by the rookie hunters each year. We have a battery operated lamp that fits into the super structure (so it doesn’t get knocked in the hole like a couple roles of paper do every year…). At the end of camp we fill in the hole. In the process we stuff the old battery, about the size of your fist, down to the bottom of the hole. We tell the rookies to dig until they get to the battery, thus creating a uniform standard (paper isn’t tickling your backside by the end of the camp!)
Entire camp comes up and goes down and is packed in around three hours.
The original guys began in 1978 sleeping on the ground in a cold camp in Nov. each year.
04-13-2005, 08:39 PM
#9
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Camden County, Missouri
Posts: 1,019
RE: whats in your camp?
New 3 gal boat fuel tank used as gravity feed or in my case 12v solar powered pump pressurizes water for shower. Fill with hot water from tank on side of wood stove. 3 gal is plenty for a shower because it is not running all the time.
04-13-2005, 08:48 PM
#10
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Camden County, Missouri
Posts: 1,019
RE: whats in your camp?
Rv toilet with gravity feed water to flush into portable sewage tank with wheels under cabin, water tank has RV antifreeze in it to keep from freezing. Tank disconnects easy for dumping. only needs dumped couple times a year.
