Wood fired hot water heater for camp shower

[Sticks]

This thing works awesome. There are two heat exchangers in it, burns very little wood and hardly any smoke. When plumbed has to have a splitter to supply cold water to mixing valve. Tank inverted on top traps heat for secondary heat exchanger. I plumb it into a 55 gal drum with 12V pump and ya... long hot shower. Search Youtube wood burning water heater apostol stoves. Enjoy, Rob

 

[Frankn]

Well, being heavy and requiring 12V means it is a camping location. Actually I use LP and 12V. I kick on the Atwood heater and just hop in the shower on my Explorer, my mobile campsite for cache hunting.
I hope that has an overpressure valve and a good mixer valve to save your hide. Just a thought, Frank...-
PS: When home I use a double barrel heater with 50' of copper tubing in the top barrel to heat the 2000' of PEX in the concrete slab. Wood works great there.

 

[notthetreasureyouseek]

I should put one in my house
Make the wife and kids chop wood to take a shower

 

[Msbeepbeep]

If the wife's chopping wood she has an axe, I'd tread carefully!


When we were in Florida, my dad put a 55 gal drum on the roof around noon you had a nice warm sower, solar powered water heater. Of course on cloudy days you were in the canal, with the gators and snakes! Lol!

 

[Sticks]

Well, being heavy and requiring 12V means it is a camping location. Actually I use LP and 12V. I kick on the Atwood heater and just hop in the shower on my Explorer, my mobile campsite for cache hunting.
I hope that has an overpressure valve and a good mixer valve to save your hide. Just a thought, Frank...-
PS: When home I use a double barrel heater with 50' of copper tubing in the top barrel to heat the 2000' of PEX in the concrete slab. Wood works great there.
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Yep has a pop off valve and mix valve with cold on one side. If I can keep the woman happy the trips last longer.lol

 

[Number9]

Water heater for a camp shower!?

Y'all must be a bunch of wussies!!

Bath Time!



Last week in October.. at about the 3,500' level on Chunky Gal Mountain, NC.
Yours truly butt naked in Buck Creek.

 

[offtrail]

Just felt like I needed to say this, never wash or take a shower by or near the water, lake or stream. Most people know this but just in case someone doesn't. I use those two and a half gallon containers that you buy drinking water in. Just place it by the campfire for a while, once it's warm to the touch. Hang it in a tree and pull the spout out just enough to get wet then close the spout. Wash up then reopen the spout and rinse off...it's that easy.

 

[Number9]

Just felt like I needed to say this, never wash or take a shower by or near the water, lake or stream. Most people know this but just in case someone doesn't. I use those two and a half gallon containers that you buy drinking water in. Just place it by the campfire for a while, once it's warm to the touch. Hang it in a tree and pull the spout out just enough to get wet then close the spout. Wash up then reopen the spout and rinse off...it's that easy.

If you don't use soap or pee in the water.. is it OK then?

 

[Number9]

Yes.. we use a shower room when we use bio-soap...



Nothing like a mountain stream to get the blood flowing...
it will also make willy head for cover!

 

[Sticks]

nice low impact. We're 200'+ from creek, and there for a month at a time. I can't have her looking like bigfoot, cuz he'll snatch her, lol. You'd be amazed at how a good hot shower and shave changes your attitude, I'm sure you already know. have a good one. ps but once clean your back to being skeeter bait.