I too have an insulated ice fishing tent. I am in the mid atlantic and it often gets near freezing or below. I use a space heater, and hook up a light as well inside the tent. I was having issues with venting so I added an electric exhaust fan that fits directly into the vent in the roof of the tent. This is a very good fan and I still had issues with the smoke. I could stand sitting in it but when I came out boy did I smell like an old ashtray. If I could perfect the venting my setup would be perfect.
I live in Canada and I came up with the same thing. I found a ice fishing hut on Amazon. I bought a few extras that I needed. And now I can enjoy cigars in the winter
I’ve had to make a few mods to my setup but I feel it’s dialed in now. I was getting some rain leaking through the top which got a few things wet inside so I added a field tarp over the top of the ice tent and that fixed it (still raining in PA). I added Reflectix to cover the floor and then a thin shop carpet over that to help keep the heat inside. I linked 115ft of LED lights around the ceiling for warm ambient lighting. I bought an outside recliner, air purifier, and a gooseneck iPad stand holder along with a small end table. It is a fantastic setup. No issues with ventilation with the air purifier going and the tent has 2 vents on the upper side panels. I look forward to my cigar time now!
I live in upstate NY and I use a hunting blind. It vents super well and It's better in the elements of snow and ice. Usually I'm good with a space heater but when it's really cold I use the Mr. Buddy propane heater.
"Just under 50 degrees" makes me chuckle. Shorts weather! All a matter of perspective. Greetings from Green Bay, WI! I sit under a patio heater in the garage. Open up the doors. All set!
I had the same chuckle, ha. I'm sitting here in Canada looking for a solution. :) I've got a small patio heater and a pretty sheltered porch, but when it gets below freezing with any wind I'm just not going to be smoking. I can't afford a better solution.
Used to use a pop up ice fishing house with propane heater and Christmas lights on the back deck. Have a heated shed I use now. Tim, you'll have to come up to Bemidji for a -30° cigar outing.😁 My friend, Lee, says he has put out the invitation to you.👍
I love this. I have been trying to figure out how I can smoke my cigars in this brutal Wisconsin winter weather. I have all these things already and will be trying this soon!
Man up! I've been in my Carhart jacket, in a snow storm, and smoking a stick. Seriously, I would be careful with a heater inside a tent. Take it from a retired Firefighter.
I turned an old garden shed into a lounge in northern Minnesota. I used a bathroom exhaust vent for the air and an inexpensive wood stove for heat. Worked like a charm. I can't say that I would feel safe smoking inside a nylon tent, even if was treated with fire retardant. Hard to beat the price, though.
I just recently started smoking Cigars and man it's called outside - this is a great solution for when I move into a house in a couple of years. Dreaming big is what it's all about and until then I'll be freezing, but smoking classy.
My buddies & I made a teepee style tent for our cigar smoking. With small draft tunnel for a fire and smoke, it quickly became a popular winter spot for everyone. Nothing beats smoking a cigar like smoking a cigar next to an open fire. Just becareful not to let the embers touch the cigar
After plowing snow all morning I’m relaxing with a San Cristobal in my Winter Fortress of Solitude Mini Cigar Lounge. I used an Ozark Trail last year but a storm wrecked it. I replaced it with a 3 man hunting blind this year. Great place. It’s up to 30° outside and toast in here. Even the cat enjoys it. :D
My wife, her daughter, and her daughters daughter and I did a day trip to our camping spot out in BFE. When we got there the snow was a few inches thick and the forest was beautiful! I started a fire then lit up a Plasencia Alma Fuerte Sixto i. My wife cooked up some medium rare steaks and potatoes on our antique Griswold 8" skillet. We ate, packed up, put the fire out and back home all in the span of 4 hours. The steaks were amazing and the Plasencia melded very well with the steak! I can't wait to do it again. Temperature was around 29. No tent used though.
That's great. Hello from Brooklyn, NY. I enclosed my terrace with a tarp held with two Steel Load Lock Bar for Cargo one at the top and another at the bottom, basically building a wall. (think of a curtain being held by a tension rod at both ends) heated by a pair of heaters. finishing touch: added a white picnic sheet to watch you channel and movies. can fit 5 comfortably, once a while 7 people.
This makes me want to tarp-off an area beneath our deck and set up a space heater. I figure the space between the deck boards above would go a long way in venting the heated air, but it might need a fan as well…
Checking in from eastern PA. 30 degrees and sitting next to the fire with the oil lamp burning. Chilly but it makes you appreciate the fire more! Cheers.
Haha I was thinking the same thing when I watched that. Heck 50 degrees is down right balmy! Great video tho! I have been talking with my buddy in Texas (I live in central NY) and we chat over FaceTime and have cigars. We were talking about a very similar setup for me to be able to smoke during the winter months! I’d probably go the ice shanty route and a propane heater so once less thing to plug in! Thanks for the great vid!
@@joeman70 I’m thinking of getting one of those infrared heaters to mount on the roof of my covered back deck. The kind you see/feel when you walk into like a Walmart entryway.
@@NYEXPRESS56 let me know how that goes! Those things put out a lot of heat! I’d be afraid I’d burn something down!! This little propane heaters are great too. I was out ice fishing with a buddy and he had the insulated tent with one of those heaters and it was single digits with windchill and we were inside with jackets off as warm as you please. I was amazed!!
I have a 4 man Ice fishing tent that pops up super easy and a Big Buddy propane heater. Its gotten me through 2 Northern NY winters toasty and dry. Venting seems to be my biggest challenge. Its been difficult to vent the smoke and retain the heat. The heat tends to go directly out with the smoke lol.
This is warning my soul as i sit on my ice cold patio it 30 degree weather enjoying your video and a cigar. Thanks for keeping the content fresh and interesting.
Tim, I live in Illinois and a tent isn't going to beat this cold. I do have a heated garage, that is finished. I purchased a rabbit air 2, to address the smoke. I have discovered the rabbit will suck up the smoke, but doesn't deal with the smell. Will the renphro address the smell better than the rabbit? Im planning on making a ozone machine to address the smell. Great video!!
I’m following this because I’m not sure my wife will deal with another garage smelling like cigars. Might have to install a negative pressure fan to eliminate the smoke and smell completely 🤷🏼♂️
I'm currently just dressing as warm as possible as if I'm going on a winter hike. I'm in Canada and it gets super cold where I am. There is a charm to being outdoors as long as you're dressed for it.
yeah, I agree. The setup I came up with wouldn't likely work if it got too cold. But I think the space heater is a good solution if you got a really good tent. Seems like some people in freezing areas use the Eskimo tents, and then a space heater seems to work pretty well even when it's really really cold.
Excited to share that my buddy and I are about to transform his garage into a D.I.Y. Lounge! (Columbia Maryland) It was used for storage/home gym, not cars, so it was easy to convince him of the idea! Just got him into cigars 3 or so months ago🤘🏽 love winter! lol
You are the best man I just was thinking about smoking in this cold snowing winter we have here in Belgium and you just come up with the right idea top man 😊
I'm always amazed with the amount of people that don't smoke indoors. I only smoke in the lounge and my wife says it makes the place smell nice. Just remove ashtrays and nubs so you don't get that sour stale smell. I smoke about 2/3 cigars a week so I guess if you smoke that per day it might get a bit rough. Lol.
I just smoked a robusto on my back deck in 26 degree power outage causing ice storm.. powers still out and I just wanna smoke another 😂 definitely prefer the indoor set up.
I have a big old 2 story home that already kind of smells like dusty books so I took the spare bedroom upstairs threw a window fan with an exhaust setting in a window and perch my cigar smoking ass right next to it. Seems to do the trick nobody complains of the smell when they come through the front door. If all else fails the house came with a whole house exhaust that will suck the O2 from the house so I'm sure a little cigars fumes don't stand a chance.
Especially a hard wall one. Put in a little camp stove in there and I’ve been in them when it’s been minus 55 with windchill. I was snug as a bug in a rug.
@Ryan Corsaut oh man that would be heaven, I've on occasion setup a little Coleman camp stove on a tiny table giving myself a chair and a pot of boiling coffee just enough room to fit in the mornings. It's cramped but I enjoy it
We don’t get a ton of snow here in the Midwest, but what’s the snow/ice load of that tent, lol! Great idea on the cheap! We have a covered patio and put up outdoor curtains. Then use a solo stove with extra long heating pad to sit on. It’s not probably as warm as your tent, but it gets the job done.
I've been in my garden shed here in Northern Michigan. I have a "my buddy propane heater and it was 18 degrees this morning. The heater works well and might be hitting 50, but it's still cold. When the single digits hit, I might be reduced to cigarillos and frostbite.
The little chill in the air just makes it easier to keep the bourbon cold. I’m Albertan, and the average temperature my last week at work was around minus 30 before windchill. I work outdoors? So 18 degrees sounds lovely. It’s all relative.
I live in Canada and I am intrigued, I wonder if I could do a setup in -13 farenheit and it still be good. I do have a shed too so maybe heat in the shed and I would just have to find a way to ventilate the smoke.
Great option. I have this space under a 3 season porch, thinking of using a small inline duct fan (4" or 6") for venting, small space heater and a RENPHO for after to clean the air in the space.
I have an variable speed 4” exhaust fan with a charcoal filter and it works so well even on lowest speed. If the fan is going more than half way up it sucks the walls of my tent in and it’s a 10’x10’ tent for reference. 6” would move an incredible amount of air for you if you need one that large
I also live in Arizona and, sadly, I don't get to smoke cigars that often during the colder months. I enjoy smoking cigars in the evening to relax from the day and the temps can get quite chilly in the evening. Unfortunately, our HOA prohibits any tents being put up in the yard. We even got dinged for having a chimenea. No fires for warmth. A local lounge would be an option, but they are rather small and often packed because a lot of people run into the same issues. On top of that, football season seems to increase the crowd as well. For now, I just sit outside during the afternoon on my days off to enjoy a cigar. This all just adds to the reason why this isn't my favorite time of year. 😏
My recommendation is to spend all your money on a good heater that heat a space bigger than what you have, like the propane powered dyna glo convection heater. I will post a couple of pictures on the Facebook group page
I’m going to take this idea and add to it going to put it in my stock trailer for added protection from the wind living in the panhandle it has kept us from enjoying a cigar
I want to see this in action around 30 degrees. Doesn’t the fan just pull the heat out also? I’m very curious and would definitely consider setting this up…
I enjoyed smoking on my balcony all Summer, but there is a new cigar lounge in my area I'm going to check out. That will most likely be my winter smoke spot if I like it.
Fireplaces have a natural air draw so, especially if you have a raised hearth, if you can manage to sit close enough, you get natural warmth, ambiance, and a fine session. Just keep your cold drink on the other side of you. You can watch the smoke being drawn up the chimney - along with the heat in your house…
The only problem is one of the most enjoyable part about smoking cigars for me is the view of nature, the city, whatever. With this, it's just looking at a tent wall. But It's definitely better than freezing....I'll give you that.
Don't plug space heaters into surge protectors!!! You need to plug them directly into the wall. The surge protectors aren't rated for the power that it consumes.
People in offices do this all the time then blow the circuit. Shutting their PC and equipment off. Have to tell them to stop plugging it into a power strip.
this isn't a universal rule, you just need to check the amperage, most are 15 amp or below which won't cover an 1800w heater but if you get a 20 amp strip or have a lower wattage setting on the heater you're fine.
Actually watched this while sitting in my tent in Minnesota puffing on an E.P. Carrillo La Historia. Up here having the tent with the mesh top and a rainfly would make it pretty hard to heat since winter temps are routinely well below zero, so I’m using a fully-enclosed Coleman tent. I’ve got a directional space heater with a fan so I can control where the heat is blowing. I live in an area that almost always has at least some wind, so for ventilation I just crack a window on each side and let nature take the smoke. This is my first time trying this and it’s been fairly comfortable so far. It’s worked down to zero degrees a couple times already, so I think I should be good all winter.
It's like the grown-man's version of a pillow fortress. I would recommend one of those mini bucket grills with some cinder-blocks and load it up with wood charcoals so you can grill while you smoke.
Being disabled I really can't do much in my backyard. I just use my carport, nice warm jacket, gloves with 3 fingers cut off so I can handle my cigar and I fire up my smoker to about 300f and sit close by it.
I smoke in the heated garage in the minus 40 plus that comes here in Canada cost alot more than 200 bones tho lol. I really need better ventilation tho
Love you, love the idea, but where I live, it gets damn cold in the winter. 50 degrees, and I'm outside in shorts and a tee shirt. I just don't know how this idea will work when it dips below 30 degrees.
Variation on the theme... I moved my family out into the tent and I smoke in the living room.
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This is amazing. I've alerted my wife that this is coming in our yard!
Hell yeah! I hope your #cigartent comes out great!
I made my wife watch this video. It's what she needed to see in order to OK the attic conversion to a cigar lounge.
Was it she felt bad you'd be out in a tent or she didn't want that ugly shit in the backyard? Trying to see what angle I should play lmao
Wow. That's awesome. I've seen a lot of these lounges on the streets of Los Angeles. Lots of people smoking together too. Not sure if it's all cigars.
haha!!!!
Playing hoodie from Cigar Daily, it’s a mental health holiday. Have fun.🏆
Im having a nice 12x8 shed built next month so i can smoke outside year-round! You can't imagine how excited i am.
I just did the same thing mines will be here October 28th 2024 I am excited
Enjoying this video in my insulated ice fishing tent in Pennsylvania! 32F outside but 65F inside!
absolutely brilliant.
I too have an insulated ice fishing tent. I am in the mid atlantic and it often gets near freezing or below. I use a space heater, and hook up a light as well inside the tent. I was having issues with venting so I added an electric exhaust fan that fits directly into the vent in the roof of the tent. This is a very good fan and I still had issues with the smoke. I could stand sitting in it but when I came out boy did I smell like an old ashtray. If I could perfect the venting my setup would be perfect.
I live in Canada and I came up with the same thing. I found a ice fishing hut on Amazon. I bought a few extras that I needed. And now I can enjoy cigars in the winter
Reppin PA !!
I’ve had to make a few mods to my setup but I feel it’s dialed in now. I was getting some rain leaking through the top which got a few things wet inside so I added a field tarp over the top of the ice tent and that fixed it (still raining in PA). I added Reflectix to cover the floor and then a thin shop carpet over that to help keep the heat inside. I linked 115ft of LED lights around the ceiling for warm ambient lighting. I bought an outside recliner, air purifier, and a gooseneck iPad stand holder along with a small end table. It is a fantastic setup. No issues with ventilation with the air purifier going and the tent has 2 vents on the upper side panels. I look forward to my cigar time now!
That sounds like a great mom. Cares, and has a sense of humor about it.
I live in upstate NY and I use a hunting blind. It vents super well and It's better in the elements of snow and ice. Usually I'm good with a space heater but when it's really cold I use the Mr. Buddy propane heater.
"Just under 50 degrees" makes me chuckle. Shorts weather! All a matter of perspective. Greetings from Green Bay, WI! I sit under a patio heater in the garage. Open up the doors. All set!
I had the same chuckle, ha. I'm sitting here in Canada looking for a solution. :) I've got a small patio heater and a pretty sheltered porch, but when it gets below freezing with any wind I'm just not going to be smoking. I can't afford a better solution.
Us people in New England “50° is shorts weather how’s it do on the typical 14° day?” 😂
just put stuff on my xmas list to do this RIGHT before i saw this video. cant wait! sick of being cold while smoking!
Used to use a pop up ice fishing house with propane heater and Christmas lights on the back deck. Have a heated shed I use now. Tim, you'll have to come up to Bemidji for a -30° cigar outing.😁 My friend, Lee, says he has put out the invitation to you.👍
Enjoying this video in my kitchen, tv on stove with the exhaust fan on smoking a Montecristo white series.
Love Montecristo❤️🎉
If you live in a colder area, ice fishing tents are amazing.
I love this. I have been trying to figure out how I can smoke my cigars in this brutal Wisconsin winter weather. I have all these things already and will be trying this soon!
Man up! I've been in my Carhart jacket, in a snow storm, and smoking a stick. Seriously, I would be careful with a heater inside a tent.
Take it from a retired Firefighter.
I turned an old garden shed into a lounge in northern Minnesota. I used a bathroom exhaust vent for the air and an inexpensive wood stove for heat. Worked like a charm. I can't say that I would feel safe smoking inside a nylon tent, even if was treated with fire retardant. Hard to beat the price, though.
It’s prob 55 out snd your in a winter hat n coat lol in NY it’s 55 we’re in shorts and tank tops 😂😂 Tim is the Goat tho! Best of the best
I just recently started smoking Cigars and man it's called outside - this is a great solution for when I move into a house in a couple of years. Dreaming big is what it's all about and until then I'll be freezing, but smoking classy.
My buddies & I made a teepee style tent for our cigar smoking. With small draft tunnel for a fire and smoke, it quickly became a popular winter spot for everyone. Nothing beats smoking a cigar like smoking a cigar next to an open fire. Just becareful not to let the embers touch the cigar
Can you send a pic?.been think of a Tent
Too funny, I guess when you have to smoke a cigar and you have no other option that would do it!!!
Tim, you are the true Cigar Aficionado.
After plowing snow all morning I’m relaxing with a San Cristobal in my Winter Fortress of Solitude Mini Cigar Lounge. I used an Ozark Trail last year but a storm wrecked it. I replaced it with a 3 man hunting blind this year. Great place. It’s up to 30° outside and toast in here. Even the cat enjoys it. :D
U saw once in a British Garden magazine ...a kind of a wooden big barrel to sit in. A garden smoking hut.
I enclosed my back porch on two sides with luan plywood added two bathroom fans and an infered heater. I'm Pa works from turkey day to march
Dude ur my hero!! A makeshift outdoor cigar lounge..where u can just relax n enjoy EVERYTHING!! Too cool!!
Cool stuff Tim!
I will have to get one of these in my garage !
I like the idea, I just joined a cigar lounge to smoke in, in the cold. Gets cold up here in upstate NY.
About to go out on the deck, smoke one with coffee, and patio heater on. 24 degrees in Colorado.
My wife, her daughter, and her daughters daughter and I did a day trip to our camping spot out in BFE.
When we got there the snow was a few inches thick and the forest was beautiful! I started a fire then lit up a Plasencia Alma Fuerte Sixto i.
My wife cooked up some medium rare steaks and potatoes on our antique Griswold 8" skillet. We ate, packed up, put the fire out and back home all in the span of 4 hours.
The steaks were amazing and the Plasencia melded very well with the steak! I can't wait to do it again. Temperature was around 29. No tent used though.
Your wife's daughter's daughter??? Wouldn't that be your Grand-Daughter (or Step-Grand-Daughter)???
@@rsc2573 it's was meant to be a ha ha...I'll be more precise next time
Edit: !!!
That's great. Hello from Brooklyn, NY. I enclosed my terrace with a tarp held with two Steel Load Lock Bar for Cargo one at the top and another at the bottom, basically building a wall. (think of a curtain being held by a tension rod at both ends) heated by a pair of heaters. finishing touch: added a white picnic sheet to watch you channel and movies. can fit 5 comfortably, once a while 7 people.
This makes me want to tarp-off an area beneath our deck and set up a space heater. I figure the space between the deck boards above would go a long way in venting the heated air, but it might need a fan as well…
Checking in from eastern PA. 30 degrees and sitting next to the fire with the oil lamp burning. Chilly but it makes you appreciate the fire more! Cheers.
How cute! Us cold weather folk don’t need a shelter for 50 degrees. We need it for 30 degrees or less. (:
Haha I was thinking the same thing when I watched that. Heck 50 degrees is down right balmy! Great video tho! I have been talking with my buddy in Texas (I live in central NY) and we chat over FaceTime and have cigars. We were talking about a very similar setup for me to be able to smoke during the winter months! I’d probably go the ice shanty route and a propane heater so once less thing to plug in! Thanks for the great vid!
@@joeman70 I’m thinking of getting one of those infrared heaters to mount on the roof of my covered back deck. The kind you see/feel when you walk into like a Walmart entryway.
@@NYEXPRESS56 let me know how that goes! Those things put out a lot of heat! I’d be afraid I’d burn something down!! This little propane heaters are great too. I was out ice fishing with a buddy and he had the insulated tent with one of those heaters and it was single digits with windchill and we were inside with jackets off as warm as you please. I was amazed!!
I have a 4 man Ice fishing tent that pops up super easy and a Big Buddy propane heater. Its gotten me through 2 Northern NY winters toasty and dry. Venting seems to be my biggest challenge. Its been difficult to vent the smoke and retain the heat. The heat tends to go directly out with the smoke lol.
This is warning my soul as i sit on my ice cold patio it 30 degree weather enjoying your video and a cigar.
Thanks for keeping the content fresh and interesting.
Heading to academy right now!! Thanks Tim. Happy Holidays
Nice. I already own all that stuff but the heater. I might try it out.😁
That’s awesome. I’m in PA right now smoking a my My Father Crema and starting to get darn cold at 30 degrees F.
I'm having to use my basement to have my cigar. I would love to make a cigar lounge
Tim, I live in Illinois and a tent isn't going to beat this cold. I do have a heated garage, that is finished. I purchased a rabbit air 2, to address the smoke. I have discovered the rabbit will suck up the smoke, but doesn't deal with the smell. Will the renphro address the smell better than the rabbit? Im planning on making a ozone machine to address the smell. Great video!!
I’m following this because I’m not sure my wife will deal with another garage smelling like cigars. Might have to install a negative pressure fan to eliminate the smoke and smell completely 🤷🏼♂️
Same, some of these comments got me in stitches.
I'm currently just dressing as warm as possible as if I'm going on a winter hike. I'm in Canada and it gets super cold where I am. There is a charm to being outdoors as long as you're dressed for it.
Here in Northern BC Canada where we get to -40 Celsius I use a large ice fishing tent with a propane heater lol
I've got a $700 Kodiak canvas tent that you can put a stove pipe through lol. It's for 95 mph wind too. Wonder if I should put it up 🤔
I use one of those propane patio heater tower things...
This video is what I needed in my life
You got a lot of problems, don't ya?
@@jamescharles4904 just 1st world problems 🤷🏻♂️
@@jaredmartin6164 gotcha
Thanks for demonstrating a cheap and easy solution. Although I chuckle at that space heater trying to warm someone in actual freezing conditions. 😅
yeah, I agree. The setup I came up with wouldn't likely work if it got too cold. But I think the space heater is a good solution if you got a really good tent. Seems like some people in freezing areas use the Eskimo tents, and then a space heater seems to work pretty well even when it's really really cold.
Even still I like the ideas and it proves it is a workable solution without breaking bank. Anything to advance the cause!
Excited to share that my buddy and I are about to transform his garage into a D.I.Y. Lounge! (Columbia Maryland) It was used for storage/home gym, not cars, so it was easy to convince him of the idea! Just got him into cigars 3 or so months ago🤘🏽 love winter! lol
Golden doodle on the lookout
I use a cheap hunting blind with a small heater and solar powered light when the sun sets. I call it my Winter Cigar Smoking Fortress of Solitude. :D
You are the best man
I just was thinking about smoking in this cold snowing winter we have here in Belgium and you just come up with the right idea top man 😊
I'm always amazed with the amount of people that don't smoke indoors. I only smoke in the lounge and my wife says it makes the place smell nice. Just remove ashtrays and nubs so you don't get that sour stale smell. I smoke about 2/3 cigars a week so I guess if you smoke that per day it might get a bit rough. Lol.
This is a super awesome video! Great stuff, Tim!
Time to get out my tent good idea thanks
I sure hope this fall/winter you can do another video like this. Excellent choice of topic!!
Cigars in the car, then, maybe spend the $200 next spring for a detail. I don't mind the smell, I like it, plus it dissipates well in my Wrangler JL.
I just smoked a robusto on my back deck in 26 degree power outage causing ice storm.. powers still out and I just wanna smoke another 😂 definitely prefer the indoor set up.
I have a big old 2 story home that already kind of smells like dusty books so I took the spare bedroom upstairs threw a window fan with an exhaust setting in a window and perch my cigar smoking ass right next to it. Seems to do the trick nobody complains of the smell when they come through the front door. If all else fails the house came with a whole house exhaust that will suck the O2 from the house so I'm sure a little cigars fumes don't stand a chance.
What might be a little more expensive than a tent but a lot warmer would be to use a pop up ice shanty they make models that are insulated as well
Especially a hard wall one. Put in a little camp stove in there and I’ve been in them when it’s been minus 55 with windchill. I was snug as a bug in a rug.
@Ryan Corsaut oh man that would be heaven, I've on occasion setup a little Coleman camp stove on a tiny table giving myself a chair and a pot of boiling coffee just enough room to fit in the mornings. It's cramped but I enjoy it
We don’t get a ton of snow here in the Midwest, but what’s the snow/ice load of that tent, lol! Great idea on the cheap! We have a covered patio and put up outdoor curtains. Then use a solo stove with extra long heating pad to sit on. It’s not probably as warm as your tent, but it gets the job done.
looks great! I would be concerned about snow though
Thank you Tim. It gets down to -20 up here and I needed a solution
I've been in my garden shed here in Northern Michigan. I have a "my buddy propane heater and it was 18 degrees this morning. The heater works well and might be hitting 50, but it's still cold. When the single digits hit, I might be reduced to cigarillos and frostbite.
The little chill in the air just makes it easier to keep the bourbon cold. I’m Albertan, and the average temperature my last week at work was around minus 30 before windchill. I work outdoors? So 18 degrees sounds lovely. It’s all relative.
I live in Canada and I am intrigued, I wonder if I could do a setup in -13 farenheit and it still be good. I do have a shed too so maybe heat in the shed and I would just have to find a way to ventilate the smoke.
one of our member use Ice fishing tent with 3 heaters to smoke lol
Great option. I have this space under a 3 season porch, thinking of using a small inline duct fan (4" or 6") for venting, small space heater and a RENPHO for after to clean the air in the space.
I have an variable speed 4” exhaust fan with a charcoal filter and it works so well even on lowest speed. If the fan is going more than half way up it sucks the walls of my tent in and it’s a 10’x10’ tent for reference. 6” would move an incredible amount of air for you if you need one that large
I bought a hyper van around $250 for my basement. It clears the smoke and it’s quite.
With the heater I'd worry about CO. But the ventilation would hopefully counter it.
I also live in Arizona and, sadly, I don't get to smoke cigars that often during the colder months. I enjoy smoking cigars in the evening to relax from the day and the temps can get quite chilly in the evening. Unfortunately, our HOA prohibits any tents being put up in the yard. We even got dinged for having a chimenea. No fires for warmth. A local lounge would be an option, but they are rather small and often packed because a lot of people run into the same issues. On top of that, football season seems to increase the crowd as well. For now, I just sit outside during the afternoon on my days off to enjoy a cigar. This all just adds to the reason why this isn't my favorite time of year. 😏
My recommendation is to spend all your money on a good heater that heat a space bigger than what you have, like the propane powered dyna glo convection heater. I will post a couple of pictures on the Facebook group page
I’m going to take this idea and add to it going to put it in my stock trailer for added protection from the wind living in the panhandle it has kept us from enjoying a cigar
I want to see this in action around 30 degrees. Doesn’t the fan just pull the heat out also? I’m very curious and would definitely consider setting this up…
That ending genuinely made me laugh out loud. "Love you too Tim" hahahah
Central NY in the 20’s right now!
This is a great idea .
Pretty cool idea
I enjoyed smoking on my balcony all Summer, but there is a new cigar lounge in my area I'm going to check out. That will most likely be my winter smoke spot if I like it.
Cool Fort!
Fireplaces have a natural air draw so, especially if you have a raised hearth, if you can manage to sit close enough, you get natural warmth, ambiance, and a fine session. Just keep your cold drink on the other side of you. You can watch the smoke being drawn up the chimney - along with the heat in your house…
Pretty awesome solution 🙂
Tim, thank you.. it's your day off and you're still thinking about your fans..
The only problem is one of the most enjoyable part about smoking cigars for me is the view of nature, the city, whatever. With this, it's just looking at a tent wall. But It's definitely better than freezing....I'll give you that.
Bro this was awsome I never thought of this lol
Up here in Canada once it drops below 10 degrees C. my cigar season ends.
Don't plug space heaters into surge protectors!!! You need to plug them directly into the wall. The surge protectors aren't rated for the power that it consumes.
Sounds like you live in a cold area. lol
People in offices do this all the time then blow the circuit. Shutting their PC and equipment off. Have to tell them to stop plugging it into a power strip.
this isn't a universal rule, you just need to check the amperage, most are 15 amp or below which won't cover an 1800w heater but if you get a 20 amp strip or have a lower wattage setting on the heater you're fine.
Just use extension cords
I remember taking a class at my local firefighter department and saw the horrible fires that caused! This is a comment I can agree with
Actually watched this while sitting in my tent in Minnesota puffing on an E.P. Carrillo La Historia. Up here having the tent with the mesh top and a rainfly would make it pretty hard to heat since winter temps are routinely well below zero, so I’m using a fully-enclosed Coleman tent. I’ve got a directional space heater with a fan so I can control where the heat is blowing. I live in an area that almost always has at least some wind, so for ventilation I just crack a window on each side and let nature take the smoke.
This is my first time trying this and it’s been fairly comfortable so far. It’s worked down to zero degrees a couple times already, so I think I should be good all winter.
Great 👍 video 🙌⚡️👍👏thank you
Good idea. I have a Little Decretive Firepit, I also use my 70,000 BTU Propane heater to blow at me. I’m in a Condo, not practical to have a Tent.
Armydude, 11:09 , thank your Service. I have a 3 season porch. I’ll look into
Trying to tarp one or two sides
It's like the grown-man's version of a pillow fortress. I would recommend one of those mini bucket grills with some cinder-blocks and load it up with wood charcoals so you can grill while you smoke.
Being disabled I really can't do much in my backyard. I just use my carport, nice warm jacket, gloves with 3 fingers cut off so I can handle my cigar and I fire up my smoker to about 300f and sit close by it.
What were you puffing on in this video? Looks like a bigger ring gauge than you typically smoke on the channel.
I smoke in the heated garage in the minus 40 plus that comes here in Canada cost alot more than 200 bones tho lol. I really need better ventilation tho
You could put a electric blanket on your chair and sit on the heat blanket as well as having your heater going
Any recommendations for a heater for a small city backyard that will keep me and maybe 1-2 other people warm?
No room for tent really. Ideally looking for a heater for our back or small city front porch
Amazing set up man. Keep up the amazing work.
Love you, love the idea, but where I live, it gets damn cold in the winter. 50 degrees, and I'm outside in shorts and a tee shirt. I just don't know how this idea will work when it dips below 30 degrees.
Not as “classy” as this heater but I swear by heat dishes! They work like a charm and are safe to plug in to the power strip.
This all sounded good. Till I remembered snow and Temps well below freezing if not sub 0 are factors for me lol
50s I'm outside in a tshirt lol
Dude this is amazing 👏
Now I know what all those tents are in the park in chicago, they are just outdoor cigar lounges!