Heater and live to see the morning

[dayvid]

http://www.nashtackle.co.uk/products/view/bank-life-bivvy-heater

Now this is a take on the twin flowerer pots upside down , (look up on Youtube) they work extremely well , we made one and the heat was excellent just to bulky to carry around.

So this seems a reasonable copy although well over priced , but aint it all

If you believe the spiel ,you wont die using it. just Burn your hands if you touch it

[bluelabel]

buy a tin of biscuits, eat the biccies... place 5 or 6 tea lights on the lid  pierce a few holes in the base of the tin and place over the lit candles... viola....! one bivvy heater for the price of a tin o' biccies and a few tea lights...

 

oh and if it's really cold out you'll get a ton of condensation....

 

oh and don't put it on the plastic bivvy table or on your plastic/rubber groundsheet

 

Edited October 3, 2017 by bluelabel
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[dayvid]

This is the type we made , and the heat chucked out is amazing , comfortably warm a bivvy

 

 

[bigtrev]

wow fork handles !

 

I have a very similar contraption but made with smaller pots and a single citronella candle.  I leave it on for as long as one candle lasts approx. 2 hrs.  The citronella keeps the mossies away and the flickering light keeps the rats away, it doesn't get hot enough to burn through the groundsheet and doesn't produce enough carbon dioxide to kill me (I never sleep with the bivvy zipped up).  It might and only might just provide enough heat to provide some placebo heat.  I like it on, it pleases me.

[nigewoodcock]

I've just found this after watching that video.

i still may build a couple to keep down the lake though. 

 

 

[dayvid]

We had ours down the syndicate , and assumed the frost broke it , havnt got round to making another one .

[greekskii]

will it not burn through your groundsheet?

[dayvid]

Dont know, we put it on a block of wood just incase , 

[greekskii]

3 hours ago, dayvid said:

Dont know, we put it on a block of wood just incase , 

Meant the Nash one. 

Block of wood with the Nash logo indented coming next month ...

[nigewoodcock]

I'm pretty sure they have something for it to sit on. A good friend was at the their trade show and mentioned this to me above all their other products. He said it's a great bit of kit. 

[greekskii]

Defo a good product. Just can see NGT bring it out later for a tenner.