Camping stove for a bath: from the store, heaters, homemade

You can get rid of fatigue in the campaign with the help of a bath. You need a tent or at least a film, a few poles to stretch them, and, of course, a stove. The stove for a camping bath can be purchased, home-made from steel. And you can make a stone. Lots of options.

A camping bath is a tent and a small stove, maybe a pile of heated stones

There are a lot of stoves for camping baths in stores. There are well-known companies that specialize in the production of sauna stoves in general. You can read about them in this one. But there are also little-known manufacturers that offer interesting options at a more affordable price.

Shore

The furnace is made of AISI 304 stainless steel. The front and rear walls of the furnace are 1 mm thick, the rest are 0.8 mm thick. It is interesting in that it has a convection casing, which also serves as a heater. It is several centimeters higher than the body. Stones are placed in the formed "trough". Bookmark weight - about 20-25 kg. This option is good because the streams of hot air rising along the walls transfer a significant part of the heat to the stones, from which you can get good steam.

Of the good ideas - a glass on the door with the ability to adjust the air supply and, accordingly, with the ability to influence the temperature in the steam room.

The chimney pipes are included, their diameter is 80 mm, the wall thickness is 0.5 mm, the total length is 50 cm. This stove for a camping bath is heated with firewood, which can be not very small. The manufacturer claims that a flame arrester is installed inside, which prevents the furnace from overheating, and also prevents the formation of sparks.

Poshekhonka

Another stainless steel stove of a similar design is Poshekhonka. It differs in that it has a removable screen that covers only the sides. Housing dimensions 30 * 30 * 50 cm. The kit includes a chimney with a total length of 1.5 meters, two elbows at 45 ° allowing you to turn the chimney in the right direction.

Has fine adjustment

The entire structure is collapsible. Legs, door, screens are removed. Assembly takes a matter of minutes. The disadvantage of this stove is the absence of a heater, but stones can be laid out on a sufficiently wide upper part. You won't get a lot of steam from them, but still.

Kamenka for a camping bath with the possibility of periodic heating

The easiest way to heat a camping bath-tent is to build a pyramid of stones, overlay it with firewood like a pioneer fire, set fire to firewood and, thus, heat the stones. After burning out, the remains of firewood are removed, the tent is stretched from above, spruce branches are thrown on the floor and so steamed. The disadvantage of this method is a single-heating heater. There was not enough firewood / temperature for the normal heating of the stones - it will not really work to take a steam bath, since it is impossible to reheat.

There is a simple solution that allows you to heat the stones repeatedly: make a pipe out of a metal mesh, which is hammered with stones. This pipe can be placed/removed into the fire as many times as necessary. This, of course, is not a full-fledged stove for a camping bath, but you can take a steam bath. The manufacturing process of a "multi-turn" heater is simple.

We take a piece of metal mesh with a bar thickness of 2-3 mm. From a whole sheet, too much capacity is obtained (do not lift), so we cut it in half. It is more convenient - with scissors for metal or a grinder with a disk for metal, but you can also use the cutting edges of pliers. It is necessary to cut approximately in the middle of the cell, leaving the "tails" of the wire. With the help of a pillar or a tree trunk, we give the grid a rounded shape, twisting it into a cylinder.

We take pliers or pliers and make hooks from protruding pieces of wire - we bend approximately in the middle of the length.

Having hooked the edge with hooks, we form a “pipe”. Now you need to bend the hooks from the inside so that the mesh is held firmly and the wire cannot hurt.

From the square pieces of the grid we form the bottom and the lid. They must be cut out so that they can be fastened to the cylinder with “hooks”.

We also fix them with the help of "hooks"

Actually, the grid itself is already ready. For convenience, you can attach handles to it - it will be more convenient to carry. There is one subtlety: choose large stones and stack them with decent gaps. A flame must penetrate into them in order to heat them well from all sides.

The grid can be put on the stove, put in a fire. You can make several pieces to maintain the required temperature and humidity. While steaming with one or two, a few more are heating up.

Improved camping stove

The inconvenient option with stones folded in a pyramid is that it is difficult to regulate the heating of stones. They piled firewood around and set it on fire. You no longer have a strong influence on the process. There is an option when, with the help of gratings carried with them, they fold something similar to a hearth. Large stones or bricks are placed on the sides, a metal / cast-iron grate is laid out on them, stones are placed on top of it. In this case, you can heat them to the desired temperature by putting firewood in the "hearth". This stove for a camping bath is one of the most primitive, but its effectiveness is no less.

Something similar, but more thorough, was done by our grandfathers and great-grandfathers in black baths. Please note that the stones must be placed with an interval so that flames penetrate between them and hot air flows.

Another option is to weld a frame of reinforcement and cover it with stones. This design is less demanding on the shape of stones - bricks or flat stones are not always found.

All of these were ways suitable for getting steam - to create an atmosphere close to a Russian steam room. But you can create a dry-air sauna in nature. And quite simply. Even without a stove. It will be necessary to find a place near a ravine or a ravine, build a fire below, put up a bath tent at the top. Stretch a pipe between the tent and the fire, lower one end of it into the fire (30-40 centimeters, the edge should extend beyond the perimeter of the flame), lead the other into the tent. That's all.

Cold air is sucked into a chimney outside the fire (it is in a recess, so the smoke rises). Passing through the fire, it heats up and enters the tent hot. Best of all, such a camping sauna “works” in calm weather.

Homemade stove from a profiled pipe for a camping bath

It is made of a thick-walled profile pipe 200*200 mm 450 mm long. Wall - 6 mm. The body of the pipe is welded up by 100 mm (a strip of metal is welded around the perimeter). End walls - from a sheet 8 mm thick.

The hole for laying firewood is a pipe with a diameter of 160 mm. The width of the ring is about 60 mm. The door is welded at a height of about 90 mm from the bottom. Instead of grates, a semicircular perforated sheet is welded.

Instead of grates - a perforated sheet of metal

On the back side of the stove, 30 mm below the top edge, an elbow is welded to remove smoke. It is made from a pipe 76 mm in diameter, from the same chimney pipe (several pieces with a total length of 220 cm). On the pipe there is a water tank, above the tank there is a gate for adjusting the draft.

To shield the fat coming from the walls, a casing was made, which also serves as a cover for the heater. Stones are placed on the upper surface of the furnace, under the screen. During operation, it was found that it is better to use cast iron ingots - their total mass is 15-20 kg. They heat up faster and give normal steam, they are not flooded. In order for the water supplied to the heater to flow down, holes are drilled in the cast-iron bars in a checkerboard pattern. Prepared bars are placed under the shirt in three layers. And still water flows through the holes to the lower level.

The stove in this version worked well, but carrying a bunch of cast iron ingots is not the greatest pleasure. As an experiment, pockets are welded in the upper part of the sidewalls. One contains stainless steel circles, the other remains empty.

Modified homemade stove for a camping bath

When the temperature is close to the required one, water is poured into an empty pocket with a ladle on a long handle - about 400 ml. It evaporates pretty quickly. The second time they give 70-100 ml already into a pocket with disks. The steam room is full of steam. While steaming, the “stones” restore the required temperature, because the stove for a camping bath is heated all the time while you want it.

With this improvement - pockets for "stones" and steam - the stove for a portable bath began to create very comfortable conditions for soaring. You can catch up with the humidity up to 50-60%, without really raising the temperature (with sufficient insulation of the tent and protection from blowing). True, you can’t name a light design - without “stones” it weighs 25 kg and is transported in the trunk. But it can be heated all the time, without any problems.