Shower Tent

Glenn

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Southern Illinois
Here’s an idea:

My shower tent got delivered, I’ll also be using it for changing clothes and for an outside toilet while on upcoming hunting trips.

I plan to leave it up for 2 to 3 days at a time. With high winds possible or a thunderstorm blowing through I don’t have much faith in the steel tent stakes and light weight cord provided for the guide lines.

I’m posting this now because of a current sale at Harbor Freight tools. When I saw these items I automatically thought about holding the tent secure in all weather conditions.

Im not sure if anyone else has tried this already?

It’s probably not worth it for a day trip but for an extended trip I already know it’s going to work great. Definitely a lot better holding power than those cheap push in metal rods.

You can’t beat this price on these ratchet straps, or even the screw in stakes for that matter. I’ll add a picture when it’s up at my camp site.

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Glenn, the tie out stakes work nicely as long as the soil is firm. Members of a boating group I belong to used them in sandy soil, and had them pull out.
 
I’m on another (5 day) hunting trip at the family farm …. Took my first portable hot shower today…. What a great feeling to get clean

And we had about 5” of rain earlier this week and the CRP/grass field is soaked. The spiral dog stakes worked great.

The 1-1/2” PVC stand I made fits over the tang of a 4 tong garden spade, and then the ratchet straps to hold it solid as there’s no structure to attach it to.

Got down to 39F last night, put a 12V electric blanket on Low on top of the air mattress, then covered up with two sleeping bags as covers,,,, holy cow I was warm - and didn’t use very many watts (the LiFePo4 battery hardly affected)

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I ran a shower like that on my pop up tent trailer for years with the family. Then retired it to my cabin in Humboldt with a filtered rain water catchment system. Solar charged battery, 12v pump, propane and h20 heater.

A good rinser at the end of the day is quite a heavenly reset button. Enjoy!
 
Wait, is that a folding chair inside the shower tent? What luxury! Is there enough hot water to afford enough time to relax in the chair??
 
Wait, is that a folding chair inside the shower tent? What luxury! Is there enough hot water to afford enough time to relax in the chair??
🤣 Yes and Yes, I was surprised at how little water it used. My brother-in-laws farm is just a few miles away so super easy to get more water if I need it.

He didn’t know I had the enclosure. while hearing a group of us talk about it. He said “oh that’s great, I’ll be getting phone calls from the neighbors, that some big naked guy is out running around my Moms farm!😉

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Luckily there are no neighbors—- lots and lots of farm ground plats , with no barns or buildings nearby.
 

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