Ultralight Silnylon Tent on Fire

Watch an ultralight silnylon tent burn to the ground. Actual event took 10 minutes, edited for impact. A mannequin is placed inside to assist in senario. I used one ounce of denatured alcohol in a soda/pepsi/beer can ultralight stove as my cooking source.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• silnylon tent
• fire
• burning
• cooking
• pepsi can stove
• beer can stove
• fuel
• consumed
• educational
• backpacking
• sleepy hiker

[borderraven]

Wanda B a "screaming Alpha"?

But, who doesn't cook just outside the tent?

[brawny03]

@borderraven This is true, if a person had the stove sorta close, while they lay in the sleeping bag reaching out to cook, it could catch on fire, too. I am glad it doesnt burn up as fast as some might expect, but the damage could be severe.

[phrankus2009]

huh ... Now, I'm wonderring if silicon impregnation would (either) retard or accelerate the burn time and the tendancy to ignite.

[brawny03]

@phrankus2009 I used to sew custom backpacking gear, phrankus, and did a test on regular ripstop (non silicone) and this silnylon. I hung two squares of fabric on a clothes line, and proceeded to light them with a cig lighter. The regular, uncoated caught fire quicker, but both were blown out by the wind.

Theories abound how flamable silnylon is, and why its horrible for tents. I find it is safe, and my fabric of choice for all gear.

[phrankus2009]

@brawny03

The moral of the story? ... Don't build a fire on top of your tent and don't pitch your tent on top of a fire.

... Don't hang your hammock over a fire and don't build a fire in yer pantz.

[brawny03]

@phrankus2009 LOL, I love it! I can abide by those morals :D

[loki1066]

Did the boil-time decrease?

Is silnylon more efficient than de-natured alcohol?

[digitalhawkeye]

Sorry, but what kind of bleeding moron puts a stove with an exposed flame in the low corner of a tent in the first place? I mean, bringing a stove into a tent invites a whole world of trouble to begin with, but then sticking it right under flammable material, that's just asking for it.

[bcm4066]

try burning yourself next.. see how long it takes until you stop screaming...

MOST STUPID BACKPACKING VIDEO EVER MADE!.. STUPID SHIT DIY..

[veganpike]

Really, people cook right outside their flimsy tents. Glad I'm a paranoid puss, rather than a f@cktard.

[balloonboyCA]

Huh?

[peteragain]

Thanks for doeing this experiment and sharing.

Even if you do not cook in your tent, someone might make a fire nearby.

This vid shows exactly the thing most people, including myself, do not want to see.

[epicsteve]

Even if you're careful (don't set your stove in the low corner of the tent, for example!), cooking inside a tent isn't worth the risk, unless you're at 20,000+ feet in the Himalayas, IMHO. I've cooked outside in a raging blizzard in the Cascades. I had to take my mitten off to stir the meal every few minutes and my hand started to go numb after 20 seconds, but I still managed to cook my dinner without getting frostbite (or burning down my tent). Moral: Laziness is dangerous.

[echetlos]

wanda wake up!!!!!

[Wiegieboard]

I've just found my new tinder!

[KoN312]

why she didn´t pour some alcohol on the corner of the tent? .. who the fuck is so silly to put a burning or still hot stove IN the tent and right in the corner....

years ago i saw something like this. it was just a tea light candle wich wasn´t too near the igloo tent walls.. we sat by the campfire and first asked ourselfs why it´s so bright behind some other tent´s.. there was nobody in the tent and a friend of mine was still able to pull out his sleeping bag...

but a stove in the tent??