CO test with Sunflower and BB Heater By Clayton Schick

B-man that is awesome!!

This makes me lean more and more towards diesel heaters as a great option. I just saw a YouTube video of a guy putting one in an Eskimo flip over. I wouldn’t use it for fishing during the day but camping it makes sense. Plus it’s a continuous dry heat.

For what it’s worth I’ve hiked a couple hours into a back country lake and camped in my hub for the weekend. Second night the buddy heater that was on low shut off due to low oxygen when we had vents open and a window cracked open. Not a fun feeling at 1am

Bring a sunflower for heat and a buddy to let you know when it is getting dangerous… coz it’ll shut off long before the sunflower ( with all the safety features removed like mine)
Sunflower will shut off when the oxygen is so low a flame cannot be sustained. Ask me how I know lol.

Seriously though, it is the dead calm nights that’ll kill you.

After a near death with CO I ALWAYS have air moving into the heated space. Ice camping I bring a battery powered fan that is placed in a window or door and is blowing fresh air INTO the shelter.

Camping or not, I make sure air is flowing IN. Slept on the ice many a time. I’m a huge fan of the sunflower as they just plain work and kick out some heat, just be smart with it and it’s as simple as introducing fresh air continuously.

10 ppm is acceptable and “safety” starts dropping from there. I googled it about a month ago when I was buying a digital read out detector. It seemed that the 3 Co alarms in my boat were going off at different times and I’m hoping to find the leak in the Kohler generator (if there is one).

Wow that was chilling to watch Clayton go into the tent with the sunflower. Pun definitely not intended. Just a few breaths can take you down. I’ve done a lot of winter camping and my key is a mummy bag inside a rectangular bag, both rated for winter. We would sleep outdoors on a bed a of hay and cover our selves with a canvas tarp to keep the heat in and the frost off. Or sleep in a 12×12 pop up shelter with 3 sides on a cot with a thick thermarest mattress. The open side facing away from the wind obviously. The tent came with a fourth side but it was screen! Still might use a wool blanket to keep the frost off. But either way I would need to unzip a bag at times because I was sweating. Coldest temp I slept in was -15 F. My point is that you can sleep outside without a heater. The hard part is putting on frozen boots in the morning!

Gregg Gunter wrote:

The hard part is putting on frozen boots in the morning!

My feet hurt just thinking about that!

Gregg Gunter wrote:

My point is that you can sleep outside without a heater. The hard part is putting on frozen boots in the morning!

Just need boots with removable liner and toss the liners into your sleeping bag in the morning. Picture of my bedroom in the BWCA a couple years back, I think I woke up a little sweaty.

Normal winter camping without heat is not hard. You just need a good bag and pad, that’s it – actually a lot more simple and easier than hot tenting. The thing about overnight ice fishing though is you need the heater to keep holes open. Otherwise what’s the point of sleeping in your fish-house?

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FishBlood&RiverMud wrote:

After a near death with CO I ALWAYS have air moving into the heated space. Ice camping I bring a battery powered fan that is placed in a window or door and is blowing fresh air INTO the shelter.

care to share your near death experience?

Gitchi Gummi wrote:

care to share your near death experience?

If you look at what I emphasized above you can Reverse engineer how i came to those conclusions…
Night with zero wind meant zero air exchange. Buddy heater quit working a few hours before sunflower quit (like video) When the sunflower quit there was not enough oxygen to sustain a flame. I awoke to the sunflower shutting off. Lucky I woke up. Took a few minutes to figure out why none of my lighters wouldn’t work…First night I’ve camped with zero wind. Took a day to feel right due to the co I inhaled.

You can read a bit in the thread below but beware ido has a large group of risk adverse people so I tend to walk past this subject when it comes up annually.

Old thread same topic

Be safe, do whatever you want. I don’t care.

tswoboda wrote:

The thing about overnight ice fishing though is you need the heater to keep holes open. Otherwise what’s the point of sleeping in your fish-house

Bingo