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Hi, just wondering what setup guys use for a shower at a portable camp.
We will be there for a week and a half.
Any ideas, suggestions.
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we have just the ticket for what you need...but i cant set up a pic..momabear;) can i get you to post a pic here? then i will try and explain how it was made:)
 
We use a 5 gallon plastic pail with a shower head on it, fill the pail with the right temperture of water, pull it up or lift it up to the right height on a tree. When we first started to hunt we just stood on a piece of wood and showered outside(-17F was a little cold), later on we inclosed the shower area with plastic, now we use the same in a shower house with a stove and a pulley system to pull the water up. A blue box also works.
 
I was in the envious position to get invited to a fellows cadillac elk camp complete with shower facilities.
Cedar lathe floor, and tarp walls and roof.
20L pail with a telephone shower head epoxied into the bottom side.
1, 10L metal pial of near boiling water to the same amount of river water equaled enough perfect temperature shower water to shower up completeley with almost enough left for another shower.
 
I worked hard to get this pic , Fogducker!!! ;)

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mommabear said:
I worked hard to get this pic , Fogducker!!! ;)

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ty mommabear:)
but as you can see in the pic...the main frame was made of blackplastic piping wrapped in a tarp...the water was heated in a old beer keg,heated by a turkey cooker..the water was pumped out with a 12 volt trailer pump..
with a full keg of water...you could get about 1/2 an hour of a shower:)
the keg was filled up by a small gas fired pump..that was about 200 ft away in a lake..
i will try and post a closer pic of the pump and the heating source..
 
WE use some poly and a few sticks nailed to one tree to make the frame and shell with a small wood pallet as the floor. We usually shower every 3rd day @ noon when we get back from the morning hunt. A few guys get lunch and the woodstove in the wall tent going, and someone will get the outside fire going, and places the 5gal. Stainless Steel Pail on the firepit rack. Heat up the water to a comfortable temp. Pour water into a 100 litre plastic tank with hose & pump attached. We use a small RV pump with a kitchen sink hose attachment. Start little 2stroke genset, jump in- works awesome. After its a 20yrd. mad dash in the cold to the comforts of the wall tent - this time is usually a good laugh for the rest of the guys.

A few guys knocked it at first since they were only out for a day or 2, but when they stayed for the full 1-12 days, they really enjoyed it.

Hey Mommabear, thats a sweet shower set up.
 
Thanks to everyone, and especially fogducker and mommabear, that's a great
setup, this gives me some great ideas, a working knowledge and a place to start.
:D
 
i thought i had a pic of the whole set up...but i cant find it...but any ways the pump was mounted on the base of the turkey cooker...the warm water was gravity feed to the pump..then the pump ..done its job..
worked damm nice to;)
 
Turkey cookers? Beer kegs? Fogducker, Dumbdawg & Mommabear, y'all are mah kinda people. Youse folks can come ahuntin' long with us anytime :D Heck, I'll even bring a beer keg fer showerin. A'course we hafta empty it ferst ;) :D
 
BC Bigbore said:
Turkey cookers? Beer kegs? Fogducker, Dumbdawg & Mommabear, y'all are mah kinda people. Youse folks can come ahuntin' long with us anytime :D Heck, I'll even bring a beer keg fer showerin. A'course we hafta empty it ferst ;) :D
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all these home made goodies are made up ...every thing we bring up to the moose hunt have two or more use,s for us......
its a 24 hour haul to get from home to our moose spot...so we have to try and keep our gear and supplies down in weight...as the more we take the more it cost us in gas to get there..
 
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