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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Ice Shack Tips => Topic started by: forest_parker on Sep 14, 2014, 10:52 PM
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Last year I got a new Eskimo quickfish 6 last season and love it. We heated it with a single burner that sits atop a 20lb propane tank, when it got really cold we also kicked on the mr buddy heater. After a while I got tired of buying propane and always hoping you dont run out on the coldest of days. I also got tired of the wet heat, the kind that never really dried your gloves and made the tent sweat and drip all over. I was thinking about putting a wood stove in it this year. Probably the small tent stoves they sell on amazon. I would probably cut a piece of my ceiling out and sew in a fire proof cloth with a hole in it so the chimney dosent burn it. I would also make a good spark arestor so I dont get holes in the roof. I was wondering your ideas on this?
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I had a green quick fish 6 a few years ago. I took out one of the removable windows. Then put a diamond shaped stove jack in the window (canvas tent style). It fit great in the window opening. The stove jack is removable when folding your hut. It worked out really well.
I'll post some pictures of the shack in action later today. :tipup:
Wyo Ice
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Only problem I can see will be waiting for the stove to cool down when you gotta leave, but I love wood heat in my shack.
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How well did the wood heat compared to lets say propane?
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I am curious about this also. I just got the quickfish 6IT. I plan on using my buddy heater to heat it this season. I have the regular size heater 4000-9000 btu. I am skeptical as to whether or not it will stay warm enough... This pop up is much bigger than my old ground blind. Has anyone had any experience heating a quickfish 6 with the regular size buddy heater on a windy night below zero? I am hopeful that there won't be any condensation issues since it has an insulated top and also hoping that the top makes it easier to heat. Any input would be great and I would also really like to see pictures of your quickfish 6 with the stove jack in the window.
Thanks
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The drip in a portable can be eliminated by by putting the silver reflectix insulation in the roof. I'm not familiar with the roof bow system in your particular shack but most guys seem to figure out how to get it up there. This makes a huge difference in how much propane you use too.
As far as the wood stove goes, that will make your setup much harder to move. That is a monster shack that most people use as a "base camp" so that may not be a concern for you. Going through the roof may be problematic, but perhaps you can go through the wall with the chimney. Locally, we have several tent, awning, upholstery, and canvas craft shops. I'm sure they could sew a 4'x4' chunk of that fire resistant stuff in. I bet there is at least one in your area too. They make wall tents for elk hunting in the mountains and they routinely have wood stoves in them. It is doable, you just gotta find someone to do it.
If you have a cabelas in your area, they usually have a wall tent on display all set up. maybe go check it out for ideas.
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I am curious about this also. I just got the quickfish 6IT. I plan on using my buddy heater to heat it this season. I have the regular size heater 4000-9000 btu. I am skeptical as to whether or not it will stay warm enough... This pop up is much bigger than my old ground blind. Has anyone had any experience heating a quickfish 6 with the regular size buddy heater on a windy night below zero? I am hopeful that there won't be any condensation issues since it has an insulated top and also hoping that the top makes it easier to heat. Any input would be great and I would also really like to see pictures of your quickfish 6 with the stove jack in the window.
Thanks
The regular buddy heater will not be enough, especially on the colder days or if there is a little wind, at least it didnt with my non insulated quickfish 6. We used a 9-15000 btu heater with the buddy heater as a secondary heat if we got a little chilly.
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The problem I find with buddy heaters and propane heat in general is that when they burn water vapor is released and the windows fog up. I would very much like to have wood heat in a portable shelter, but I don't see how you could get a chimney pipe to go outside the thing in a way that doesn't burn the fabric. Don't exhaust pipes get really hot? If anyone has any way of doing this I'd really like to know!
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http://www.beckelcanvas.com/products_view.php?products_id=27
just add Velcro like around the windows
thinking only in the larger hubs would it be worth it .
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That looks really awesome! Thanks for the idea, I think I'm going to try that. I have a Cabela's 5 sided shelter and it has the panoramic windows but I can never see out of them because of the frost from the buddy heater. Now all I need is a really small wood stove...
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RF I recommend a fire arrestor also ...so no sparks land atop your shelter...may want to do an at home test run ..not sure if the pipe will stand up without some sort of support...post some pics of your mod.
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The whole idea sounds very risky though, the more I think about the more I think that a polyester tent and a wood stove is a bad combination...
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My shanty is a semi portable, 4X8 and fits into the bed of my pick up. I built the woodstove that we use out of 3/16" steel, good old steel, I got from a 90 yr old school plumber b4 he passed away. As for chimney pipe I just got 4" single wall galvanized from Home Depot. You have to overheat the galvanized pipe prior to using it to burn off some of the galvanizing, It is poison and will stink the hell out of you hut if you don't pre use it outside. You can watch the galvanizing melt off, it is pretty cool. As for where the chimney comes through the hut I just used a super high heat storm collar for metal roofing, The rubber doesn't melt even under flame, truly awesome! I sandwiched the tarps between two pieces of osb one inside and one outside and screwed through the tarps, holds great. The roof of the hut is canvas so it really would not burn very easily but have never even seen any coals coming up the chimney, although when I built the stove, it has a internal baffle which prob stops anything but smoke going up the chimney. Wood heat is dry heat, dries gloves and clothes super fast. The set up that I have here works awesome and keeps us warm to 40f below, burns very little wood and seemed to be safe, I just need to put some sheet metal underneath the stove to protect the carpet from coals during reloading the stove. A vid of my hut, Pause it to look at the chimney and the collar, and the plywood holding it together, works good for me, cheap, easy, and leaks no air at all, fiberglass collars I have seen for canvas tents didn't seem to seal as well. What good it a wood stove if the collar leaks air like crazy.