JoshuaH wrote:
DarthMuffin wrote:
Although from experience a heater in a popup is almost futile. Makes a great hand and foot warmer and might warm it up a couple of degrees to take the edge off, but it'll never be shirtsleeves in freezing weather.
That was something I was wondering about. Figure the tent walls can't be too much for insulation.
You'd be surprised, it can stay warm as long as the heats running. I slept in a down bag and wore wool and down clothes. While I didn't use the furnace, my heat was the Coleman stove when I cooked breakfast and dinner. I'd get up in the morning and light the stove. In a few minutes it got pretty warm in there, almost too warm. But of course when I shut the stove off it didn't hold the heat very long. But then I was leaving and it didn't matter. If I'd stayed in the PU it would have gotten cold pretty quickly.
I once ran into a retired Marine hunting and he invited me to his tent for some coffee. He had put down a pad, then the wall tent on top, then a pad on the inside. And he had a catalytic heater. It was so hot in the tent I had to go outside to drink my coffee. The point being, canvas can be as warm as any RV with insulation.But it can't hold the heat and takes a relatively constant supply to do that.
