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Coffee can heaters #7336737 11/03/18 09:53 PM
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Hunting now and remembering back when I was a kid, my dad would give me a book of matches send me to my stand and say light the toilet paper if you get cold and need to warm your hands up. With the Buddy Heaters it’s not necessary anymore. Anyone else ever used toilet paper soaked in alcohol for a heater?

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I soak toilet paper in alcohol some mornings, but man I’d hate to smell it burning.

Kerosene on the other hand I can get along with

Re: Coffee can heaters [Re: Big8] #7336749 11/03/18 10:07 PM
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buddy heaters get hot, had a glove melted by one


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Re: Coffee can heaters [Re: Big8] #7336765 11/03/18 10:27 PM
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Nope never used one always used propane


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I only use propane now but this was in the mid 80’s and I was just thinking about old times.

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Yep. We called them,"Hobo" stoves. They sure beat having nothing.


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I remember using them in the 70s uncle had them in a couple of stands

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We used them in the late 60's.


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I've done it plenty, but it was 25 years ago.


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Used them many times back in the 60's & 70's.


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Yep, used them a bunch before the little propane bottle heaters came out. They were better than not and would keep your hands worm.

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Never used the coffee can with toilet paper but used Sterno canned heat in the stands. It contained some kind of gel that would put off a blue flame when lit and put off pretty good heat.

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We used them back in the 70's until one member kicked one over trying to get a shot at a buck. Caught his bell bottoms on fire and burnt his ground stand down....He never lived that one down....


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Used coffee cans and charcoal in those stands on Caddo back then.


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Yes used them. Now the little green propane heaters. I do carry a candle in my day pack. Had to deice blind windows a few times.

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Originally Posted By: snake oil
We used them back in the 70's until one member kicked one over trying to get a shot at a buck. Caught his bell bottoms on fire and burnt his ground stand down....He never lived that one down....
This is off topic, but last night at the saloon, many of the ladies were retro, wearing bell bottoms. The 70s look is back in vogue.


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Yep, that’s all we used growing up in the 70’s & 80’s.

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How about the hand warmers where you lit the stick and put it inside the metal and asbestos/fiberglass holder? up




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Never used hand warmers.

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We used them (toilet paper soaked with alcohol) when I was a youngster. Small propane heaters were pretty much unheard of then. Grandpa always said they burned without odor. And to be honest, I could never smell them. The first buck I ever shot didn't seem to smell it.

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I used one last yr and will likely use it again this yr, my buddy heater gets to hot for me

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Re: Coffee can heaters [Re: Big8] #7337730 11/05/18 02:19 AM
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I think I might just use one or two this year for old times sakes, and so that my youngest kids know what they are. smile

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woot I can remember it was standard issue back in the 60's & 70's. Now toilet paper is standard issue in my blind for another reason. flush
But it kept us warm, and made for some great memories!


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They worked just fine.

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