Thread: Hot shower

Or get a coleman unit...then you can have the shower away from the car if you wish.

a canvas shower bucket will give me a ten minute jobie ... only drawback is finding a tree , on the upside there cheep,small ,almost indistuctable and light

about a 3m pole poked through the pintle and stuck into the ground near the diff will give you about 10cms of clearance to a military issue shower bucket if you are the regulation 1.8m tall. (2 long cam-poles works well)

the same thing can usually be achieved by wedging the pole through the bull bar, if you have under side recovery points you can do the same thing by passing the pole through a shackle attached to the recovery point BUT usually this requires a very long pole to be effective, Tying it back helps heaps and allows you to use a shorter pole, goto to the spare (if youve done it on the rear of a disco) door hinge (if you did it to a deefer) the bonnet latch ( if you did it at the front open the bonnet, pass the rope round the latch close the bonnet) then tie it to the pole.


if you dont have a bull bar or recovery points you can open up one of the front doors and wedge it in the angle between the window, door frame and seat box/frame you only need a 2m pole for that one.

your best friend for stringing one up a tree is a pully on a long rope and a heavy duty peg.

• sling the rope with the pully on the end of it over a tree branch out past a fork that will stop the rope from sliding towards the trunk.
• get the pully down to ground level
• thread the free end of the rope through the pully.
• tie the free end of the rope to the peg in the ground
• tie a figure 8 on the bite somewhere between 3 and 5m past the pully
• pull the side of the rope that has the pully tied to it up untill the pully is about 1m over head height and secure the rope to the tree or the peg
• untie the end of the rope from the peg and tie your shower bucket to it using a long looped bowline that keeps the bucket about 50 CM off the ground (makes it easy to fill from a jerry/bucket for a normal height adult)
• now tie a figure 8 on the bite (several if you need to adjust the height) to loop onto the peg to lift the filled shower bucket.

The main advantage of this is that it stops the rope from ringbarking into the tree if you're there for a prolonged stop and the pully with the knots in the running end of the rope makes it easy to pull up if your hands are wet.

To get it down.

• Untie the bowline
• Untie the knot thats holding the pully up
• Using the 2:1 advantage of the pully pull the pully down to ground level Undo all the knots in the rope (leave the pully on the rope)
• start to coil up the rope from the pully pulling the exess rope over the treebranch (standing away from the trunk so the rope wants to walk out along the branch will stop it from snagging in the crook of the fork)
• retrieve the peg and put it all back in the shower bucket.

"if you dont have a bull bar or recovery points you can open up one of the front doors and wedge it in the angle between the window, door frame and seat box/frame you only need a 2m pole for that one. "
ill have to try this tomorow.... trees here are generaly abundant but a 2 meter pole in the back would be real handy on the wa trip...

Not sure if your in a disco or a deefer but the 1.5M extendable poles are just the thing... heres an extra tip, buy 2 if you you find yourself needing more than the 2.7m of pole they provide by removing the bottom half from one pole, taking the rubber foot off of the other you can then slide the top half of the first pole over the bottom half of the second pole and hit about 4.2m.

the 1.5m pole fits perfectly across the floor of the defender and if you remove the rubber foot and slide the point in under the side panel of the disco just behind where the door closes they fit perfectly there.

I was told of this the other day, 5l pump up garden spray from Bunnings $35.00, cut the extension off for convenience, boil the billy or leave it in the sun all day, a quick spray to get wet and soap up, rinse off ------ aaaahhhhhh.

Haven't tried it yet, but it looks the goods in the back yard. Off to Eucla for a week in the morning - to a mouse plague apparently - so I will give a test.

Lynn

5l pump up garden spray from Bunnings $35.00

. We're getting pretty low tech here and pricy compared to a pump and shower head for $23 (I couldn't believe that you could get stuff that cheap - thanks S. Still each to their own and I guess you could always adapt the sprayer it into a flame thrower to help deal with the mice.

To be honest as I've read the responses It's slowly dawned on me that....

a) People have put a lot more thought in to theses matters than I ever have.

and...

b) A fire and billy coupled with either shower bag or pump is the way to go (KISS).

I also like the idea of makeshift washing machine and other alternative uses too so I reckon pump is the way I'll go.

I guess I'll just have to find another use for the EGR pipe. I'm now thinking of other things I can't do without for more than a week or so - occasional chestnut / coffee / peanut roaster perhaps? Or a continuos feed cheese melter? Up front popcorn production?

Trailed any of those yet Dave?

Cheers all.

Ian.

Coffee is easy, get the pack of grinds from your local, either use a plunger



or if you like it basic (Turkish/Greek)



or a Moka pot like the Italians



Not unless you mean instant

I have a plastic handled/lid etc on a plunger, might try a Moka pot for the next long trip. The smell of coffee brings in the visitors.

Oops!
Just noticed your only after a roaster. Use your camp oven. Now the continuous feed cheese maker?? I'll leave that to Dave I'm sure he has a few designs for 12 V driven ones.