I put up my new lavvu saturday and tried out my frontier stove. I was work, real hard work as its the biggest tent I have ever had. I am used to Banshee 200, 2 person tents. When finally up, we got the stove in. It was clear we needed to use the spark arrester guys to stabilse the flue. At these lengths the chimney gets wobbly.
We guyed the chimney down and nervously fired up the stove. It got hot, real quick. It was amazing we didn't burn the top of the tent. Now I realise we need to get a heat baffle or something around the top so when it touches the side it doesn't torch the tent. I am really surprised you can't buy these off the peg considering a lot of sales must be for lavvu/tipi running it out the top.
How have other people solved this problem? Any advice greatly appreciated.
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I had a very windy night and the tent billowed and bashed about. I am amazed it didn't take off. I held my ground as worse come to worse I go indoors to my warm bed. The fire went out and too frightened to fire it up given the heat traveling up the chimney I left it out. Which meant for a chilly night.
The next day, lots of condensation, lots of rain on the outside of the tent and it rained when I was taking it down. So its all drying out in my garage now. Not a great first go but I was planning to go to some woods and do all of this alone. Without help and without easy location I would have struggled and been quite PO'd!
But its all a learning curve though and practice now will make acquired skill later.
We guyed the chimney down and nervously fired up the stove. It got hot, real quick. It was amazing we didn't burn the top of the tent. Now I realise we need to get a heat baffle or something around the top so when it touches the side it doesn't torch the tent. I am really surprised you can't buy these off the peg considering a lot of sales must be for lavvu/tipi running it out the top.
How have other people solved this problem? Any advice greatly appreciated.
I had a very windy night and the tent billowed and bashed about. I am amazed it didn't take off. I held my ground as worse come to worse I go indoors to my warm bed. The fire went out and too frightened to fire it up given the heat traveling up the chimney I left it out. Which meant for a chilly night.
The next day, lots of condensation, lots of rain on the outside of the tent and it rained when I was taking it down. So its all drying out in my garage now. Not a great first go but I was planning to go to some woods and do all of this alone. Without help and without easy location I would have struggled and been quite PO'd!
But its all a learning curve though and practice now will make acquired skill later.