7 Camp Gadgets that SHOULD be Expensive, but COST Very Little

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site. We'll show you how many of these items can be used immediately after purchase, and for those DIY tricks, don't worry. See how easy and simple they come together when it comes to the quality of this equipment. Don't confuse affordability with inferior quality. These

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ing tools have been rigorously tested by the community. Plus, did I mention that most of them are designed for small savings? your Precious Cargo space now we're going to shoot that beautiful Bean footage, so what you're looking at is your standard teardrop side table, but if you've ever thought about cooking on it, here we have a cast iron griddle, your Coleman standard single burner. stove this owner made a hole in it, leave this here and now you have a permanent stove on the side and for people like us with a small 4x8 with no water or stove you now have a permanent stove my name is Tim I am from Niagara Wisconsin Northeast Wisconsin, right on the Michigan border, nice to meet up with Drew, okay this is my

little

shower system.

I used to do this in a 5 gallon bucket, but when I finished heating a half gallon of water, the first part was It was cold, so I decided to buy an insulated bucket. I put in a 12 volt pump. 12 volt pump inside. Here is a connector for the hose. I didn't remove this Anderson power pole to power the pump and I have a small pass switch that doesn't work. Kill me if I step on it while there is energy through it. It's supposed to be waterproof. I connect the end here. I place this on the ground. Plug in my battery or my teardrop, whatever I have.

It looks like you made this battery. You are right, I did, yes it is a 100 amp hour lithium battery. I have built several, they are now

very

fun to build and I use Anderson power poles around my caravan. I replaced all the 12 volt cigarette plugs so that's a big plus - they don't fall out, they're easy to move, they're usually lighter. I would fill a solar bag in the morning, when the sun hits the car, I would fill it with two gallons of water because that's it. on the hood of the car and let it bake for a couple of hours and then pour it in here and I see an advantage here in keeping the water in the solar bag once the sun goes down, it loses its heat pretty quickly pretty quickly.

You're throwing it in this insulated jug, how long will it stay hot in there? Just enough time to get ready to shower. Sometimes I wait an hour or so and it will still be warm enough when you are camping. It's better to be warm. that icy so any temperature is really good, this is not the best system but I just put it on, it has a couple of elastic bands for now to keep it a

little

tight and not leak. I have a small one. one of those pop up shower tents, you throw it in the air and it turns into a shower tent and has one on top.

I plug this in, we'll pretend it's hot water from the shower, pour in there if you're going to wait a while. I could put a blanket over this and keep it warm for an hour or two and I don't think Drew would want to get wet but not yet, maybe I'll come here for my night shower anyway, this will usually be on the floor inside my tent and this will be in a convenient place where I can step on it while I shower and then give it a step and voila, it's good enough to wash your hair and lather it up, get it wet, turn it off, lather it up and then rinse it.

I find two gallons of warm water is more than enough for showering most times. Which one do you think we all have here for the

cost

? The jug probably

cost

s $10 or $12. I'm guessing the foot switch on the pump is an eBay purchase, so we're probably talking about $20 total. This is part of the solar shower bag that comes with it, but the key is that it keeps the water warm while you're playing. If you lose track of your time, you don't have to shower immediately. 5 gallon bucket without lid, heat would be gone before I finished my last pot of water on the stove or in the bag because I'm in the field right now.

I'm not really sure what this is called, but many of you have probably seen this. This is Doedic's new water jug. I'm going to show you a much cheaper option here, but the nice thing about this jug, as you know, it's a typical five gallon, six gallon jug. It's really awkward to carry around camp so they made I think they're like four 4 and 2 gallons perfect for carrying around and then you can add this pump to get water and it has a really nice flow with just a push of two buttons and one to turn it off and then there's a little There's a light here that comes on at night so you can see what you're washing with this, although it's built like a tank so even without water it weighs a lot more than it would need and I can't.

I don't remember how much all these combos cost. I think it's around 130 140. I'll show the price on the screen, but there's a much better alternative here. Drew wanted me to show you this hand washing station I dreamed of and found. This unit I think was on eBay a couple of years ago and probably cost 13 or 14 dollars. It recharges. USB Cable. The older cable is pretty good because it will have a 600ml metered pump and will shut itself off. It's a waste just to wash your hands, so also have an on and off button and always have soap nearby to wash your hands and a towel, and this is just a cat litter box that I cleaned thoroughly, so e

very

thing what was there was basically cat litter clay, so, um. so when this came out or when you did this it didn't even exist.

I don't think since dedic. I'm not sure I haven't seen this one before, but it's weird, look how similar they look, yeah, one of these is hundreds of dollars, this one is 15 bucks, you know, right now it might be a little more

expensive

, but the problem I have with this so far and I don't know if others have it in the community. twice for the water to come out of the faucet once for it to turn off the problem I'm finding is that once I wash my hands or wash the dishes the water goes into this sensor as you can see I can't turn it back on .

This is the first question for you guys, this second question is yours, no, I can get as wet as possible. It's a mechanical button underneath, so it has it. It doesn't read a finger exactly like a laser type and then mine. This bottle is going to get tight if I don't open the vent here, how are you venting yours? It's only a semi loose fit so I think it won't have any yes and I'm only taking out, you know, a cup of water at a time so it doesn't seem to have much vacuum when I turned it off and came back it had already drawn in enough air there to compensate and I guess you could use some kind of folding M. system if you wanted to with this, it would take up much less space than this.

This thing is built to run on a tank when there is no water, it feels like there is water, so I think it is overbuilt. I don't think we can need that much, the only benefit I think I'm seeing here if we look at both flows is that this is a lower flow, so it's a strong flow, so it will go through the water faster. Camp if we see these two going I would say yours is almost double, a little more powerful, mine is more of a trickle, true, yes, but if you are in a camp where water is unlimited or, like us, along a river and you're filtering it and putting it here, that

should

n't be.

Any problem, thanks, no problem, okay Drew, I'm Linda, we're here at camp and you came and asked me about my single stove and you thought I'd like to talk about it and I love talking about it. This thing is a double wall stainless steel fire pit and it comes in all kinds of sizes. This one is called bonfire and I love it. It is my favorite splurge that I have been able to accompany with my tear. I can start a fire in just a few minutes I can keep a fire going in wind and rain and the smoke goes straight up because of the engineering magic of this thing.

I have this Ember screen, so it's going to rain tonight. I'm going to open this fire pit. I get under my shelter and put up my side walls and I'll be warm and comfortable. They continue to evolve what the product can do and continue to release accessories and I buy every single one of them. They have a kitchen accessory that increases. a cast iron grill or griddle or walk around here and you can still feed the fire through the openings in the fixture. They have one that I haven't actually bought, but there are people who live here full time.

You'll probably want to, it's a radiant panel that keeps the heat from rising and keeps it low close to your body, so you know all kinds of things, and then they also make a backpacking series, so for the minimalist backpacker crowd out there , they make little ones that will burn twigs or pellets, so you can boil your coffee on the go, so this is the original version, it's the correct 1.0 and they just came out with a 2.0, what would be the difference from what I understand? I know for myself when this thing burns and there is very little ash left, but there will be something to be able to get rid of.

I have to lift the fire pit and throw away the ashes. The 2.0 has a removable ashtray on the bottom with a tool so you can take it out and just take the ashtray to go and throw someone to get a deal on this would you say you would still go for the one I would? I would make sure you can lift it, so this is a good Coleman. old Coleman these chairs are also Coleman um I think they call it a stool um you know, so you can put your feet on it um but I like to use it as a side table and it folds up and it has a little uh zipper envelope that's buried in my bin storage right now, but you know, it gets really small and I love this stuff and I also see that you're using my favorite coffee maker back there, the arrow press, go, go, go, come on, we made a video highlighting that one, yeah, so I already made my coffee so you know I put my beans in here and my water and I pressed it and I made my coffee but I can show you you know the magic that happens at the end. why this thing is so easy to clean so now this is just I mean maybe you don't even rinse it and you have the coffee puck right there and you just push this arm in there, wipe it off, it's ready for tomorrow.

I love it, no, no. pieces that can break easily and then the last and I'm definitely saving the best for Los Angeles or the most unique. Well yeah, you asked me about mods and you know I own a campground so you know you don't have to mod. Everything but mine is old, it's one of the first, number 34, and I had a cubic TV here that I don't use when I'm camping and I didn't know what to do with that hole and the worst. Part of the day for me is when I have to walk away from the campfire and say you know the day is over, so I turned this into an indoor fireplace.

I lined the cubicle with fireproof insulation, put a metal roof in there to make it look like a firebox and I have these candles with wood Wix and a campfire scent and when I light all three I get a nice little crackle. I can hear it, but yeah, you heard it at the beginning, right, yeah, and um, wow, well, not that. work and for you friends in the safety of home, yes of course, absolutely, my windows are broken right now, she is not sleeping with this in the correct position, oh that is so cool, I can't imagine relaxing with this, how cool would that be, it's fabulous, I mean, it's just fabulous, you know, sit there, read a book, you know it's really wonderful, hi, my name is Paul, I'm from Kitz, Wisconsin, I built this table, it's basically Made from a sheet of plywood, I used marine grade plywood to make it last better. the uh in the elements and once everything is done, basically everything is flat.

I put it under the mattress in my teardrop-shaped camper, uh, so it doesn't take up space. I use the same laminate on the top that I used on my teardrop for the countertop, that way it's easy to clean, it wipes down easily, and I put, I don't know, probably eight coats of polyurethane on it to make it stand up to the elements. I built it, oh, probably 10 years ago, it held up pretty well. It's been raining and pretty wet and dry in the sun and getting dirty and I see everything here just slides together, all the slides together, yeah what's up with the seats, they actually sit, the seats and the table sit on tacos so they stay? so there's no screwing at all no no this is a dutch oven bracket it's basically an oil drain pan and just a metal bracket i made out of 38 steel rod heat it weld it and it folds that way.

I don't have to bend down to use my Dutch oven and I built this quick little grill for the wooden strawberry to cook, something to uh because a lot of places won't have the real grills at the campgrounds, so I built that and just throw it on the ground that chair that I built it probably pretty recently 25 years ago and I originally built it for canoe camping it's been in the water it's been floating away um it folds up on itself um basically boom that's thick nice I love this and uh yeah it's all it goes with me every time I go camping, although it is a great piece of equipment to have.

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