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$41,000 Yurt on Amazon



Cheapest tent on amazon I've found so far is $18. One thst can fit a adult. I'm thinking of getting the cheapest tent possible to give out with my cold weather sleeping bag so the hobo I give them to can go live under the bridge on the GAP Trail with the other hobos- a steong tent isn't necessary there, it just gives privacy and personal space.

In my search I found a $41,000 Yurt. It costs way more than other Yurts. I know a but about Yurts, and this is not a high quality Yurt. I can't even see where you woukd stick in a stove pipe.

https://www.amazon.com/Mongolia-Camping-Persons-Outdoor-Self-Driving/dp/B0D3LJ9VCH/ref=sr_1_101?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.UyJx5Rb1lUNiihmiHVZVhYjxhk6N8WBNoiONt3oCJrDF1pidBTi0nd7d_o6zyOpeP0ffvkH3Xmuju58UmSrB-SGWUf5gCdt1iC_HQRt8Vs5hud2_529lH-CBrqqnEib-MMgJwb3Kh9oy4xD8q6clM9hEMisUqJUPQdHL31lpBk0YA90kjxbLL2dg_kmT6zfhC2T_E9Sh3fBF05wiEPATonxc7NtAvQb7ektMJxGl694.D9KE2_mNWX986H-Blj7d9cWuAyuqXtMAL49p6BeJcG0&dib_tag=se&keywords=Tent&qid=1731449372&sr=8-101&th=1
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MethDozer · M
Nah over priced, but as far as a wood stove. In general you add the stove jack to a tent yourself. Some come with them, but most often you add it to a tent on you're own. Either with a stove jack kit or by making one out of something rigid and some fiberglass cloth.
@MethDozer I do not recommend modifying a tent to support a stove. I not only used a issued US Army 10 man tent with a arctic heater loaded up in a ahkio up in alaska, but owned one myself I bought second hand- those things catch fire and kill everyone inside, and the main difference between a 10 man tent and a Yurt is the sides are designed to allow you to roll out of (ideally when the tent is on fire). Otherwise you are dead. As in dead dead. No open casket funeral for you kind of dead. So unless the tent comes with the stoce tent fap preinstalled I'm not sticking a stove pipe up through it.
MethDozer · M
@Dignaga I've made several canvas tents and pop up shanties over the years with stove jacks. Several tent stoves to go with them. It's common practice and fine if you know what you're doing. Most canvas tents and shanties don't come with them, you buy the insulation kit and put the jack in yourself. It's more than just cutting a hole for the stove pipe.
@MethDozer I know how to make a tent stove. I'm fairly confident I can make what looks like a sleeve for a tent. I'm also brutally aware these things go up in flames, having been made to sit through safety videos.

This isn't the safety video but only video of a 10 man tent I could find on youtube. You can see how complex the stove pipe flaps are to where it contacts the tent.

[media=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVrIdbBkAlc&pp=ygURVGVuIG1hbiB0ZW50IGZpcmU%3D]

And he uses the terminology wrong at the beginning of the video so is a noob to Fort Wainwright, Alaska (he was in the old Stryker unit that used to be there). That's the sort of tent that can take -90°F and keep you alive. Until it explodes in flames. I assure you I comprehend how to make a heater, seen plenty of videos, but last thing I need is to be in a cold weather enviroment and have my tent catch on fire. Just.... so much suck at that point. I'd get frostbite from my tears if I managed to escape in time. We are so scared of these tents catching fire we always have a guy up at night watching for just that (the fireguard).
MethDozer · M
@Dignaga Id be way more confident in that canvas yurt with a stove in it than those nylon army tents.
@MethDozer It's multiple layers, and I can't recall what fabric it is. Army contracts put to local seamstresses to sew them up whenever one gets ripped, so my used one had a bunch of patches. I think some of it was just cloth.

It's technology ported over directly from Finland in it's war against the Soviets, so whatever they used then. Some silly general decided if the Finns could defeat the Soviets using Ahkios and these tents, so can we.... and then the technology just stagnated. Not even solar blankets or something clever in the design. Congress doesn't pay attention to update anything in Alaska. Pentagon doesn't pay attention either.

It was so bad, they made us do night vision training in Alaska, in the Summer, when the sun never went dark, and we all pointed out how stupid it was, and Division Command said they knew, but the Pentagon never paid attention to our protests. So we were stumbling around with a bright green light in our eyes in daylight acting like we were night navigating.