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Off-Grid Prospector-Style Tent: A Tiny House Alternative

by Joe Mobley
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Mat & Danielle are at it again.

From the YouTube video description:

Published on Jan 15, 2016

In this video, we give you a tour of a prospector-style, 4-season tent that is completely off-grid. The tent is built with two layers of weather-proof canvas stretched over a wooden frame and is equipped with a double combustion wood stove for heat, a solar panel to power 1 LED light, and a propane fridge to keep food cool during the summer months.
There's more in the description.

Mat & Danielle's blog,

www.ExploringAlternatives.ca


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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    They need something behind that wood stove (ex: stone or brick), those stoves get blazing hot. Also the stone or brick surround will retain the heat for hours even after the fire goes out in the stove.

    I had a wood stove years ago, the outside temp. was in the teens during winter, I had every door & window open in the house because the stove got so hot. It took a couple of hours to get the stove temp. down. Those stoves are awesome to have in the winter but you have to be very careful they don't catch the place on fire.
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  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
    I wonder how many of us would survive a month if we were dropped off in the middle of nowhere with some basic supplies and left to fend for ourselves?

    Judging by these "off the grid" tv shows, it looks like hard work surviving in the wilderness......
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    • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
      Best so far, Joe.

      I can see myself hangin' out here with my husky sled, waitin' for a buncha loveable ole bears to come lick sum honey from my bucket.

      Truly, I would be as one with nature here, even those frost snake critters they got (they do got 'em out there, right?).
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        I'd wondered for a while why some of these off grid homes don't utilize the old fashioned cooking woodstove. My grandparents kept the old woodstove as a fixture in their large farmhouse kitchen.

        Even though it was no longer used for cooking - it was great to build a wood fire in it on a cold morning as it quickly heated the room. It had an oven for baking (and a warming oven).

        I looked up those stoves and the site below - cool!

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        • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          I'd wondered for a while why some of these off grid homes don't utilize the old fashioned cooking woodstove. My grandparents kept the old woodstove as a fixture in their large farmhouse kitchen.

          Even though it was no longer used for cooking - it was great to build a wood fire in it on a cold morning as it quickly heated the room. It had an oven for baking (and a warming oven).

          I looked up those stoves and the site below - cool!

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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by salegurus View Post

      I wonder how many of us would survive a month if we were dropped off in the middle of nowhere with some basic supplies and left to fend for ourselves?

      Judging by these "off the grid" tv shows, it looks like hard work surviving in the wilderness......

      I wouldn't consider the OP video/cabin roughing it. Food & clean water would be the biggest challenge considering they had a wood stove & roof over their head. It looked like they even had a mattress, fridge and gas grill outside.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Whether it was roughing it or not would really depend how long you stayed there. Having to hike to a bathroom in the middle of winter, in my head is roughing it. At least an actual tiny home has a bathroom, unlike miner's tents.

    I would also be a little wary of using one of these stoves with no stone wall backing, too. Even a thin layer of soapstone would do the trick. If I'm going to be in the middle of the woods in the middle of winter, I don't want to do a walk out to civilization in the middle of the night because the tent burned.

    The next issue I have with this............is why anyone would want to do this in the middle of winter. I love to be off the grid...........but not in winter! They would have lost me on the no cooking in the kitchen except for the woodstove. I've cooked on those and they're just fine. The no running water and indoor bathroom - however small and remedial, is a deal breaker for me, though. Again - okay in summer, but no way in the winter.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      If I'm going to be in the middle of the woods in the middle of winter, I don't want to do a walk out to civilization in the middle of the night because the tent burned.

      Lol, I hate when that happens.
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    If some type of insulation is needed behind the stove, I'd just hang a welders blanket.
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    At least there is plenty of snow on hand for water.

    Problem with somea these kinda initiatives is where the manual says, "and for fresh water, simply clip a filter to your Urino-pod and leave it charging overnight..."
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Having to hike to a bathroom in the middle of winter, in my head is roughing it.
      You can go in a bucket and drop it to the outhouse in the morning.

      I'd not be walking out of the tent in the middle of the night.

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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        why anyone would want to do this in the middle of winter.
        I wouldn't want to - but my younger son still camps only in winter...the worse the weather, the more he likes roughing it. He only camps in summer if he's whitewater rafting or whatever with friends....but takes 3 day trips in Dec, Jan, Feb.
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          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          I wouldn't want to - but my younger son still camps only in winter...the worse the weather, the more he likes roughing it. He only camps in summer if he's whitewater rafting or whatever with friends....but takes 3 day trips in Dec, Jan, Feb.
          I have members of my website that even hunt in snow when they have a claim or a hole somewhere they are excavating. Not me. No way. Ever. It's enough of a PITA when you find something you have to actually dig for when it's warm and dry outside.
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      Originally Posted by Princess Balestra View Post

      At least there is plenty of snow on hand for water.


      Never drink yellow snow water or water downhill from the outhouse.
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        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Never drink yellow snow water or water downhill from the outhouse.
        Out in Colorado where I lived at 8,700 feet surrounded by 13,500 foot peaks, the word is not to eat the pink snow. While it's a little bit odd and kind of neat to look at - the bacteria that makes the snow pink up there at and above timberline will make you hella sick if you ingest it.
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