Shadowing Practice: Ice Cooled Tent Camping - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hey guys, welcome to Camping with Steve.

I'm going to try to cool off this tent today with 150 pounds of ice.

So let's get some ice.

So we were able to get about 140 pounds of ice.

The first piece of the pie was to assemble this normal consumer grade, over the counter street legal tent.

Nothing special about it.

And then to wait for a warm day day.

Step B was to cut holes in these styrofoam lids.

Now believe me you did not want to hear that happening so I have not included that footage.

Third part of the mystery is flexible dryer vent.

My original scheme was to have these coolers attached all together human centipede style

and then just going into the tent

and I realized that's going to put this thing at like 100% humidity in no time

which is not much better than sweltering in the heat.

What I'm going to do instead is snake one continuous hose through like a heat exchanger

and then the air itself never touches the ice.

The ice will cool the air and the air will cool me.

I'm only using four chambers on the top for the active cooling part.

The rest on bottom just hold extra ice as it is going to melt.

So I've lined some on the bottom.

I'll dump more in here to kind of surround this vent

and it's not as efficient as having one large cooler

but I just could not find a large cooler I was willing to cut holes in.

Those are the pricey kind.

I know what everybody's thinking.

Why not just take a five-gallon pail full of ice and put it in the tent with a fan blowing on it?

Well, five-gallon pail doesn't hold a whole lot.

And the humidity, right?

And this looks way cooler.

Now we just got to pipe it into the tent.

so I know everybody's wondering oh Steve that's wasteful

but these were some old styrofoam coolers a friend was going to throw away

and I'm giving them a second life

and unfortunately it's really hard to get polystyrene in styrofoam form recycled

so this is giving it a new life

and hopefully this proves the concept so

that I can build a more permanent solution

so this is known as a prototype to my surprise

and amusement there is an access for storing boots in this tent that opens right to the inside.

So I can have a supply

and return air without bringing warm outside air through this whole cooler because that'll melt the ice in no time.

I'm going to circulate the cold air in there and it is a tent so there's screens on it.

It's not really going to contain all that air but it'll contain it better than drawing hot steaming air from the outside.

I got my supply air up here

and I got my return air down here

and I'm just going to use one of these USB powered

fans attached to a Fernco to blow the air out of here

and it should go right through this and right back in nice

and cooled up on this side even though it looks sloppy

where I sealed up around the coolers this is one continuous piece of vent

so there won't be any air leakage there shouldn't

and i got to turn this on

because this flower is wilting it's a a little bit hot for this tender canadian okay

so here goes nothing it's a bit of a delicate connection so

We're getting a little bit of air movement out of the other side.

So far, that's better than none.

Right now, our supply air is at 72-ish Fahrenheit, about 22 degrees Celsius.

That's the air that's coming in through here.

And the return air is sitting at around 80, 81.

And so we're getting about 8 degrees, 9 degrees Fahrenheit of delta T or temp drop, which is not good for an AC.

So I'm going to make a few tweaks, but first things first.

Considering I'm filming this on Cinco de Mayo, one of these margaritas.

10% going to have to ration this.

I picked a spot that's pretty much in as much shade as I can get.

We're gonna have a little bit of sunshine here

but then it should be gone this evening and it's not that hot of a day I understand.

82, 83, that's a joke for a lot of people but for this Canadian may as well be 150.

At a certain point it doesn't matter but I gotta find a way to make this work.

I don't think the current setup is gonna do much.

We're getting a little bit of Delta T

but not a lot of airflow that's just a tiny USB

fan about 10 watts at best I think maybe 15

and this venting could be a lot shorter because there is restriction

but I do think that once the ice starts to melt

and there is water in contact with this there'll be a lot more thermal transfer coming through this venting

and another trick up my sleep I got one of those

things of ice cream salt I'm making ice cream makes the

ice colder I chose to do it in compartments like this

because that would give me more ice volume

if I could get one big cooler

and run this through it without destroying a Yeti

or something I'd probably do that

but we are losing some BTUs through these pipes here I can feel

that they're cold but we'll monitor the situation

and adjust accordingly well okay I'm not getting the cooling

that I want I let it faster for a bit and we're getting like

74 Fahrenheit there you know 23 Celsius not adequate

and I know the problem there's a bunch of problems here we're gonna fix them

and make this thing nice

and cool instead of slowly shortening this I know what the

problem is we got 40 feet of very restrictive venting here that is just not possible with a 10 watt fan.

So I'll take one of these

and we're gonna put some salt in it to get it extra cold

and we'll just run that short segment in there and see how cold we can get our air coming out.

It just means changing ice more often which I was avoiding

because overnight I kind of wanted a system that would just go

and keep it a little cool

but a tent like has an R value of negative five

because there's screens on it it doesn't hold anything in what

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you need is some cool air blasting right at you

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and we're gonna figure that out this little cooler here looks like a good contender and we'll just take this with us

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Now, people aren't following on Facebook.

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I am in the U.S right now because we came down for Lindsay's Granny's birthday.

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And I don't stealth camp around here because I'm uncomfortable enough in my own home country,

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let alone as an alien vacationer in an area with capital punishment.

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So we don't want to push any boundaries or break any unnecessary laws.

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So we're going to try this.

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This one's good and loaded with ice.

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And let's get this in the tent and see what we can do.

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The whole purpose of putting this outside of the tent in the beginning was

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that it wouldn't all fit inside and trying to keep the moisture down.

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I had a last minute brainwave of putting a continuous pipe through it,

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but it's just too much pipe for this little fan.

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this battery pack

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that was running the fan let it run for a little

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bit hung around for an hour outside this thing's about 90%

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charge still this will actually provide some cooling yeah I'm getting some airflow here for sure

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and And we'll let this stabilize and we're going to take some temperatures.

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Obviously much better already.

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Obviously much better, but temperature drop is only one part of the equation.

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Because you need CFM.

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You need some air movement.

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You need some velocity.

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and we've got it this is feeling much much better I'll

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let it sit for a bit I've got an indoor outdoor thermometer

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that we can leave here to see what it's going to equal out to in here

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I think it's going to get a lot better when most of that ice melts and it's an ice Water slurry,

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and this is running through Indoor-outdoor setup.

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I'm gonna put the outdoor part outdoors

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I've lost a ton of these indoor outdoor things doing these videos This exact way I forget them in the morning

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There we go.

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It's right about tent level and oh was I raising a barn?

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Holy moly.

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Let it cool down.

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with just the ice of that cooler we've got an indoor temp of 75

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and an outdoor of 78 and to switch

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that to Celsius it's we got outside is 26 inside is

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24 not the way I like to sleep generally I like to sleep about 15 Celsius

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or 65 Fahrenheit

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so this isn't gonna work at all we're gonna have to

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pump this up a little bit put a little bit of ice cream salt

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let's see if that does anything

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so the secret spice seems to be putting some salt in it and here yeah it's

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still just a couple degrees off in here between 78 and 76 inside or still 26 to 24.

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I'm gonna let this marinate in here for a little bit.

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This is what we're cooking on.

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I know there's not a fire band because people have been burning huge piles of lumber.

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That looks pretty good.

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I should have read the instructions.

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Um, okay, so, ta-da!

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Oh, it's hot!

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It's burning me!

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And now we wait.

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Now, I used one of these before in one of my videos, and it took a while to act...

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Okay, that's right in my face.

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Hold on, I'll move.

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I've used one of these before, and it took a while for it to actually be ready to cook.

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And, uh, that's okay, because we've got a couple of other pieces of cooking instrumentary

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that we're going to whip out here happy Cinco de Maya it's over now

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but I'm filming it during came in for the cooking stuff

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and what do I see here that looks good to me it is 70 Fahrenheit in here 78 outside which translates to

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26 and 21.

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Not bad in my books.

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We've got a wonderful 64-ish on the supply air, which is fantastic.

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That's exactly what I would love.

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Blowing a lot more in my face.

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Blowing in my face.

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That took some time to warm up, but that's okay.

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Okay, put some chicken on there.

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Judging by the intense lack of sizzle, this grill is not great.

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That chicken is smoldering there a little bit.

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I don't think that's going to cook good on that grill.

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Which is why I think 10 problems ahead.

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cast iron pan and some propane used to be a favorite recipe of mine to just dump in a bunch of

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onions and peppers basically I do that throw in some chicken

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some salsa and I can either eat that on rice or in a tortilla or something like that

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Somebody should invent a meal like that.

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Oh, this dismal chicken.

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It's not good.

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Normally, fajitas...

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Oh, how is that burning my hand yet sticking to the grill?

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What the heck is that?

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Like, getting a break.

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Okay.

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The two shoe second rule.

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Alright, alright, alright.

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Okay.

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Not too much of it touched my shoe, and my shoe is sanitary.

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Mexican rice with corn.

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We're as easy as possible.

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Oh, that's unappetizing.

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Shard of glass.

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Okay, well, that's whatever we made here.

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And here you go, babe.

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Oh, thanks, love.

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It's hot, it probably needs to cool down.

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It looks delicious.

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I've eaten worse.

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Ants!

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I knew it.

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I hear there's no sugar around here.

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Alright, still pretty hot outside.

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This little cooler in here has done really good um we

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still got a lot of ice left oh now we're talking that's what i mean

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the salt makes a huge difference

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and we've still got a little ice left in there actually feels very comfortable in here versus outside

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so i'll take that as a win and i'm gonna hunker down i guess

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because uh you know we still got some ice left in there

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and 40 left on that uh little power bank okay

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that guys will see you in the am and uh let's see what goes from there

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it's nice and cool in here that's all I can say

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morning everybody oh I'm not ready to go

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and face the world oh there's a bug on me okay yeah

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so the biggest problem is there's like zero our value in a tent I can literally see the ground outside through there.

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So it doesn't even hold the air in, let alone insulate whatsoever.

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But it's always good to camp.

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And yeah, with enough ice, it makes a difference.

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That's absolutely for sure, 100%.

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But, you know, we're talking 100 plus pounds of ice.

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Which, on a hot day, might not sound so ridiculous.

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especially at three bucks for 20 pounds um

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so yeah we did actually manage to cool it off quite

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successfully with a lot of leftover ice you know i'm just gonna get up

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and uh i'll start this beloved day uh and maybe have an antacid pill because that margaritas hit me today Oh wow,

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even these ones that didn't do a whole lot are getting pretty well empty or half melted, mostly melted.

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Sweet.

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But yeah, this is the culprit.

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Can't keep cool in a tent without any insulation.

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That gives me an idea for a project though.

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But I'm going to leave the tent set up because we're going to be back here at Granny's.

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And one, I like sleeping outside.

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Two, there's no spare rooms in the house.

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And three, it's beautiful.

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So that solves all the problems right there.

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Possibly a tornado tonight, they're saying.

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So I got it pegged down real good.

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I don't ever use the guy wires on the fly, but I did today.

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Because we don't want any problems.

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Big F5 with suction power.

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and uh yeah uh that's that's what i got for for this video heading back to canada very soon

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and if all goes well uh i got a couple of pretty cool spots i want to check out

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and uh it's in the stealthy variety

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so uh we'll be stealth maxing in no time uh thanks everybody for watching

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and we'll see you on the next one

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