Camp shower

[calawahsteelie]

Going on a two week trip this year to Idaho in Sept and was wondering if anybody has made some sort of homemade camp shower. I usually just do the baby wipe thing but it's gonna be a little longer out this time. I was thinking about modifying a 3gal weed sprayer with a cheap rv shower head. The solar bag, gravity feed thing doesn't really seem that effective. I could be wrong, never used one. Just looking for something better. Any ideas?

[jrebel]

Boil water in a big pan and take a sponge bath.  Make sure you leave enough clean water to rinse with. 

How we do it...
1.  boil a couple gallons of water....make it hot.
2.  Pour 2/3 of boiling water in a basin with non heated water till desired temp is reached.  A little hot is better as it cools fast.
3.  Wash with lots of soap and scrup good making sure to do the real dirty parts last.  Below the waste is always last as you don't want to wash your face following  your butt.
4.  Take remaining water and add non heated water to desired temp....pour over body to wash off remaining soap. 
5.  Dry and powder ass needed.

Repeat every two to three days depending on smell.

[sirfunkeybut]

  we don't want any butt-heads 

[ICEMAN]

I made a five gallon camp shower years ago, use it each year since...

Five gallon bucket.
Added a tiny showerhead to the side of the bucket near the bottom.
Showerhead pops in or out to shut off flow...
Keep thin rope tied to the bucket handle.

Temperature; I bought a baby bath floating temperature gauge. Took the gauge into the shower with me to identify the desired temperature I prefer for a shower. I permanent marked the gauge at this temp...

Shower length; I filled the bucket and test ran it in the front yard a few times and marked the bucket at various levels and wrote 3 minute, 5 minute, 7minute....etc...

How to;
Warn anyone around camp you will be naked in a few minutes so scram!
Throw the rope over a tree branch.
Fill bucket with a gallon or two of water.
Heat another gallon of water at camp to near boiling.
Pour boiling water in and mix until the temp reads a few degrees hotter than you want. (this buys you time to get your skivvy's off and pull the bucket into the air.)
Reach up and open your showerhead, enjoy.


Other tips;
Bring a fake grass door mat to stand on while you shower.
Bring baby shampoo to use at camp, suds up easy, rinses off fast...can also use as an all around soap for your shower... keep it simple...

Nothing better than showering up at midweek or more often at camp...

Enjoy!

[ICEMAN]

JKeen, isnt that funny? That is what most who have used my style shower have said as well....Three gallons? That isn't going to be enough!... It is...

[rasbo]

JKeen, isnt that funny? That is what most who have used my style shower have said as well....Three gallons? That isn't going to be enough!... It is...

roger that,I fill one with water when the power is out and leave it next to the woodstove,in the morning there is a nice warm jug for a shower,call me weird,but hosing down the wife is kinda fun

[GrainfedMuley]

I made a five gallon camp shower years ago, use it each year since...

Five gallon bucket.
Added a tiny showerhead to the side of the bucket near the bottom.
Showerhead pops in or out to shut off flow...
Keep thin rope tied to the bucket handle.

Temperature; I bought a baby bath floating temperature gauge. Took the gauge into the shower with me to identify the desired temperature I prefer for a shower. I permanent marked the gauge at this temp...

Shower length; I filled the bucket and test ran it in the front yard a few times and marked the bucket at various levels and wrote 3 minute, 5 minute, 7minute....etc...

How to;
Warn anyone around camp you will be naked in a few minutes so scram!
Throw the rope over a tree branch.
Fill bucket with a gallon or two of water.
Heat another gallon of water at camp to near boiling.
Pour boiling water in and mix until the temp reads a few degrees hotter than you want. (this buys you time to get your skivvy's off and pull the bucket into the air.)
Reach up and open your showerhead, enjoy.


Other tips;
Bring a fake grass door mat to stand on while you shower.
Bring baby shampoo to use at camp, suds up easy, rinses off fast...can also use as an all around soap for your shower... keep it simple...

Nothing better than showering up at midweek or more often at camp...

Enjoy!

Here is a thaught. Instead of using a tree branch and showing your hairy butt to everybody and everything in the woods, take an EZ-up with walls and nobody will get scared..........

[Special T]

But then there would be no more Snatchsquatch sightings! 

[fillthefreezer]

i heat water on woodstove and pour in a small extra cooler(holds temp better than bucket) and i have a 12v rv style pump rigged with the type of shower head that has a long hose. bought one of those flipout toilet/shower huts from cabelas. pump was lke $25. tent was like $35. shower head $10. even used it last winter when the power was out. the pump is the on demand style too so when the head is closed it builds its pressure and shuts off, then starts running again when you start spraying

[300rum]

Here is what I did after trying a few different types (bought and made).

I start off with a 5 gallon bucket.  I might "upgrade" to a larger bucket but for right now it works fine.  It also serves to store everything when I am done and for travel which is nice.  In the bucket I use a sump pump, it gives you all the pressure that you would ever want.  I hook the pump up to a Yamaha 2000 generator, of which I have two for the trailer etc.  Off the pump I immediately connect a wye with one piece of garden hose running back into the bucket off the wye.  I leave this petcock on partially all the time so that the water will recirculate and not burn up the pump.  Another hose comes off the wye and into our shower "tent" which is one of the shelters from Cabelas. For a shower head I use one of those half-moon type water nozzles that has a petcock on it.  After trying a few different "shower heads" this turned out to be the best one, cheap and it is easily adjusted or turned off with the petcock (which is the best feature).  Another great feature about this type of nozzle is that it has enough weight so the water pretty much shoots straight down on top of you. 

With 5 gallons, it will give you about a 5 minute shower on full blast (which is pretty much like taking a shower at home).  You can get another minute or so if you dial down the petcock.  What I do is heat up water on the stove, put that into the bucket and then add cold so that the water is a little bit too hot to touch, it will cool down a bit by the time it reaches you.  If you want a longer shower, just have someone pour water in mid-shower.  For the ladies, two buckets are usually enough, I can get it done easily in one, fyi. 

One of the other benefits of this setup is that the shower shelter heats up from the hot water and it gets real nice in there, even with outside temps in the 30's.  It also stays warm for a bit (with everything zipped up) which gives you enough time to get your clothes on.        

[ICEMAN]

I made a five gallon camp shower years ago, use it each year since...

Five gallon bucket.
Added a tiny showerhead to the side of the bucket near the bottom.
Showerhead pops in or out to shut off flow...
Keep thin rope tied to the bucket handle.

Temperature; I bought a baby bath floating temperature gauge. Took the gauge into the shower with me to identify the desired temperature I prefer for a shower. I permanent marked the gauge at this temp...

Shower length; I filled the bucket and test ran it in the front yard a few times and marked the bucket at various levels and wrote 3 minute, 5 minute, 7minute....etc...

How to;
Warn anyone around camp you will be naked in a few minutes so scram!
Throw the rope over a tree branch.
Fill bucket with a gallon or two of water.
Heat another gallon of water at camp to near boiling.
Pour boiling water in and mix until the temp reads a few degrees hotter than you want. (this buys you time to get your skivvy's off and pull the bucket into the air.)
Reach up and open your showerhead, enjoy.


Other tips;
Bring a fake grass door mat to stand on while you shower.
Bring baby shampoo to use at camp, suds up easy, rinses off fast...can also use as an all around soap for your shower... keep it simple...

Nothing better than showering up at midweek or more often at camp...

Enjoy!

Here is a thaught. Instead of using a tree branch and showing your hairy butt to everybody and everything in the woods, take an EZ-up with walls and nobody will get scared..........

What would the fun be in that, besides they need to get off their butts and go hunt!

[windygorge]

get you a pump(rv style), a large water container, large propane bottle, torch, 3/8" copper tubing, plastic tubing, shower head and shower stall. 
hot water is instant, so no need to let warm up.  not safe to stop running water while torch is on, so take a very quick shower to minimize water waste.

pretty self explanatory.  fresh water source(tank, creek, whatever), water pump between water tank and copper tubing which you will coil to allow torch to heat.  rig the torch in a way to disperse heat to entire coil, not just one spot.  usually from below or above facing down.   have it rigged to where its close to the shower stall so you can ignite the torch and start shower right away, if that means you are lighting torch while still naked, then do so  
like i said, its instant heat.  the longer the copper tubing, the hotter it can get.  your able to adjust torch level to  once you figure out water speed and torch level, you will have a great shower.  hot, warm, or cold.  the water is traveling through the coil as the torch heats it up.  I can not express how this can be dangerous (explosive)if you let the water stop at the shower head.  just let it flow, and when done showering, turn off torch then shower head.

[washelkhunter]

Or you could just buy a hot camp shower setup for 150.00 and add a bucket. 

[windygorge]

yea, for those who don't already have the stuff laying around.  some of us do.   

[washelkhunter]

Well sure, but it will just be a novelty. It will never be as compact.or.portable and space.in the truck heading to camp quickly becomes an issue w/o adding some rubegoldberg contraption.