Taking a Bath

[elkhound]

WOW...Taking a Bath...nice set up and very well built and thought out design.

 

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[Cabin Fever]

When I want a bath or shower, I ususally want to take it right away.....not for hours to have the water heat up. In some of those photos, I would need a shower after collecting and starting the firewood!

Back before we had electricity or running water, we would pump the shower water, by hand, heat about 2 to 3 gallons on the Coleman stove to 120ºF in a metal weed sprayer. I converted the weed sprayer by removing its spray wand and replaced it with a dish-rinsing nozzle with a thumb control. This weed sprayer was used for showers only!

Pump up the pressure in the weed sprayer and we'd have a hot, pressurized shower. We'd take the shower off of the front porch. This is a photo of my wife taking a shower.

 

[200years2late]

I've used this primitive set up for a shower in the last two cabins I lived in. Totaling over 30 years. Most of the year I have plenty of hot water on the wood stove. It's funny how you start to do something that you think is going to be temporary and there you still are 30 years later. Or maybe that's just me. When I had my back surgery I pumped the water from the tub down my kitchen sink after the shower with a 12 volt pump from my camper for a few weeks rather than pick up the tub and dump it outside. I'm back to abusing my back now though. It's a little short on privacy when I have company is the only problem

 

[LadyLocust]

I've used this primitive set up for a shower in the last two cabins I lived in. Totaling over 30 years. Most of the year I have plenty of hot water on the wood stove. It's funny how you start to do something that you think is going to be temporary and there you still are 30 years later. Or maybe that's just me. When I had my back surgery I pumped the water from the tub down my kitchen sink after the shower with a 12 volt pump from my camper for a few weeks rather than pick up the tub and dump it outside. I'm back to abusing my back now though. It's a little short on privacy when I have company is the only problem

I’ve seen a set up very similar to this but had a shower curtain hanging on a hula hoop to prevent splashing. Thought it was pretty clever.

 

[200years2late]

I though it might come to that but I rarely splash outside of the shower curtain on the floor which I just pick up by the corners and take outside.

 

[Cabin Fever]

I've used this primitive set up for a shower in the last two cabins I lived in. Totaling over 30 years. Most of the year I have plenty of hot water on the wood stove. It's funny how you start to do something that you think is going to be temporary and there you still are 30 years later. Or maybe that's just me. When I had my back surgery I pumped the water from the tub down my kitchen sink after the shower with a 12 volt pump from my camper for a few weeks rather than pick up the tub and dump it outside. I'm back to abusing my back now though. It's a little short on privacy when I have company is the only problem

During times when it was too cold to take a weed sprayer shower outdoors, we used the sprayer indoors while sitting in a plastic concrete mixing tub like the one shown below. Since our sprayer only holds 3 gallons, and since 3 gallons is plenty for a shower, it was no problem carrying the plastic tub outside to empty.

 

[joel]

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...hUKEwjyg_68krvuAhVESawKHaz_AFkQMygCegUIARCuAgI like this one.

 

[Aerindel]

With 20 feet of elevation you can get enough pressure from gravity to feed a batter operated, propane fueled on demand water heater and run a bath in about 30 minutes.

Which is what I do in the summer when I can use the roof tanks.

In the winter I use a small solar powered RV pump to pressurize the water for baths.

 

[elkhound]

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...hUKEwjyg_68krvuAhVESawKHaz_AFkQMygCegUIARCuAgI like this one.

hey this is a bathing thread not a cooking show....roflmao.