You can be warm at the fire in the fall - get this

[twins89]

Fall is a great time to camp especially in the north with the leaves changing. The nights around the fire can be very chilly. The front of you is warm and toasty while your butt and back are cold. The answer: Get fire under the hole. Simply obtain an #10 restaurant can or large metal coffee can. Place some hot coals and ashes about 2 cups worth in the can. Yes, you need to have the fire going a bit before there are coals and ashes. Place the can under your chair and you will be warm and toasty on all sides. Use caution and common sense. Don't put to much in and only use coals - not wood with flames. The coals will burn for quite some time. When they no longer keep you warm, dump them back in the fire, and add more. I can't believe I've been camping all these years and just now learned this. When the can is cool, place the coffee can lid on or rinse can to use the next time.

[RoyB]

I'm always prone for strange things to happen. I have a feeling putting hot coals under my chair would fall into that category.

Would have to go back to school again an learn better on how not to burn hehe...

I burned up a great pair of boots cocking my feet up on one of those coleman green 1950s catalytic heaters. Lost my lucky camping hat once leaning over the fire.

Even today we still do the MR BUDDY heater alot sitting outside around the patio with a nice bon-fire going close by.

One time tent camping we put up a tarp for a wind break and warm and cozy with our camp fire going.

Fall and early winter is our best camping times with our off-road POPUP camper... We like to find a nice knoll spot up on the mtns here just off the forest roads behind Harrisonburg VA where the wooded VA/WVA wooded state line runs. Then stay there for a few days...

This google photo is near a place called FLAGPOLE KNOB Georg Washington Natl Forest...



Roy Ken

[dewey02]

rockhillmanor wrote:

twins89 wrote:
Fall is a great time to camp especially in the north with the leaves changing. The nights around the fire can be very chilly. The front of you is warm and toasty while your butt and back are cold. The answer: Get fire under the hole. Simply obtain an #10 restaurant can or large metal coffee can. Place some hot coals and ashes about 2 cups worth in the can. Yes, you need to have the fire going a bit before there are coals and ashes. Place the can under your chair and you will be warm and toasty on all sides. Use caution and common sense. Don't put to much in and only use coals - not wood with flames. The coals will burn for quite some time. When they no longer keep you warm, dump them back in the fire, and add more. I can't believe I've been camping all these years and just now learned this. When the can is cool, place the coffee can lid on or rinse can to use the next time.

Great DIY idea!:C

You can go to any flea market and pick up old antique bed warmers pretty cheap that will work the same way too. And they make great conversation pieces around the campfire!!

This is the first thing that came to my mind when I read the original post. Our grandparents were a lot smarter and innovative than we give them credit for. Today, if something can't be plugged in, we think it has no value.

[discovery4us]

SAR Tracker wrote:
When boondocking in the desert, we just use a shovel, grab a shovelful of coals, and deposit under a chair. First breeze that comes up in the morning "redistributes" the ashes that are left over.

This is exactly what we do. When you start getting cold you just ask for a "butt warmer".

[rhagfo]

coolmom42 wrote:

rhagfo wrote:
Just get a chair like this, keeps the cold off the back!

That chair looks awesome, where did you get it??

They are at Camping World. Got one for the DW, and aftr sitting in it myself needed to get a second.

[rwjejits]

Dog Folks wrote:

nomad297 wrote:
Just make sure you go easy on the beans at supper time.

Bruce

That is funny. Great mental picture.

I am lucky. I get to move my whole house from my summer lakeside spot to sunny and warm Florida in the winter. There is no cold around the campfire.

LMAO

[Dog_Folks]

nomad297 wrote:
Just make sure you go easy on the beans at supper time.

Bruce

That is funny. Great mental picture.

I am lucky. I get to move my whole house from my summer lakeside spot to sunny and warm Florida in the winter. There is no cold around the campfire.

[nomad297]

Just make sure you go easy on the beans at supper time.

Bruce

[rockhillmanor]

twins89 wrote:
Fall is a great time to camp especially in the north with the leaves changing. The nights around the fire can be very chilly. The front of you is warm and toasty while your butt and back are cold. The answer: Get fire under the hole. Simply obtain an #10 restaurant can or large metal coffee can. Place some hot coals and ashes about 2 cups worth in the can. Yes, you need to have the fire going a bit before there are coals and ashes. Place the can under your chair and you will be warm and toasty on all sides. Use caution and common sense. Don't put to much in and only use coals - not wood with flames. The coals will burn for quite some time. When they no longer keep you warm, dump them back in the fire, and add more. I can't believe I've been camping all these years and just now learned this. When the can is cool, place the coffee can lid on or rinse can to use the next time.

Great DIY idea! :C

You can go to any flea market and pick up old antique bed warmers pretty cheap that will work the same way too. And they make great conversation pieces around the campfire!!

[BB_TX]

Just get you a Mr Heater Portable Buddy heater. Easier and don't have to worry with a hot can, hot coals, and having to refill with coals periodically. Set it between two chairs, wrap a blanket around the back of both chairs, and another blanket across yours and your seatmates laps, and the heat will not only warm your back side, but also keep the rest of you warm also. Sort of like sitting in a warm tent.

Grandson's baseball that starts in March and sometimes goes into November has taught us that one.

[SAR_Tracker]

When boondocking in the desert, we just use a shovel, grab a shovelful of coals, and deposit under a chair. First breeze that comes up in the morning "redistributes" the ashes that are left over.

[hotbyte]

I just stand up and turn around for a little bit...kind of like a rotisserie chicken 🙂

[loulou57]

CavemanCharlie wrote:


After all ,lets not forget back in the days of "Laura Ingalls Wilder" they used to heat up rocks in the stove and put them in a special covered pan that could be put under the blankets at night to keep them warm in their "Little House On The Prairie". This idea is just a version of that.

We have used those bed pan warmers....work great.

LOL....Even in this day we have used rocks. Heat them up then wrap in a towel and put in your bed. Or, heat a few up and put them in the middle of your tent and your tent will stay warm for hours. Just remember not to place them on something that could melt. Also, make sure tent " has ventilation " or you will defeat the purpose and wake up cold and damp.

[Jagtech]

Check out this campfire backside warmer ~

Campfire back warmer

[coolmom42]

rhagfo wrote:
Just get a chair like this, keeps the cold off the back!

That chair looks awesome, where did you get it??