How about this? For those really cold days, I'm considering making an inclined frame out of PVC. If I construct it the way I have in my mind, it would start out about a foot above my space heater, and then incline say 30° for about 3 or 4 feet toward my smoking chair. I then would simply place an old blanket over the frame which would direct the greatest majority of heat straight toward me. The PVC would not be glued so breakdown would mean easy storage... Just thinking...
@jfreedy Thanks. I tried to describe my idea to hopefully make it easy to understand. I would want to be able to break it down because I use my garage workshop area in the winter to fire up, and usually my open space heater would be enough. However, on those bitter cold days, I can see the need. Also, their are some TPLrs that are forced to smoke OUTSIDE! There's where I can really see the benefit... Again... Just thinking...
When it is cold in the shed, I build a fire in the stove. I have cut enough wood to get me through 3, maybe 4 more winters. That's where I smoke year round.
For me, if it's too cold or far too hot, I just don't even consider a pipe. If the conditions are not right for me to completely relax and enjoy myself for an hour, I have other ways I can accomplish this.
I'm with @Londy3 about not even thinking about a pipe if it's too cold or too hot. That being said, I used to have space in my garage to sit and smoke a pipe on cold or rainy days. That more or less ended when one of our daughters and 2 granddaughters moved back in with us and pretty much turned the garage into a storage shed.
I still smoke when it's raining but sit in the covered area by our front door. I just have to hope the wind isn't blowing the rain into the door. I have also sat there and smoked a pipe through a couple of hurricanes that we rode out.
@johnspecht Funny, just before scrolling down to the second pic, I was going to comment about not “lighting up” in that cute blue “boombox”😬 Also, it may have protected from foul weather, but not foul smells😉🙂
Also reminiscent of the old joke about Grandpa headed to the outhouse with his pipe and the Sears catalog under one arm, not remembering that Grandma had just finished cleaning it out the old-fashioned way: with gasoline! A few seconds after the door closed came the inevitable BOOM! and Grandma ran out to find Grandpa sitting on the ground about 10 feet away, face and clothes blackened, hair singed, toilet seat around his neck, and broken pipe dangling from his lips with a very surprised look on his face. To her concerned question of "Pa! What happened?" he replied: "Dunno! Must be somethin' I et!"
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I still smoke when it's raining but sit in the covered area by our front door. I just have to hope the wind isn't blowing the rain into the door. I have also sat there and smoked a pipe through a couple of hurricanes that we rode out.
But nobody warned me about methane!
Funny, just before scrolling down to the second pic, I was going to comment about not “lighting up” in that cute blue “boombox”😬
Also, it may have protected from foul weather, but not foul smells😉🙂
Leads to "Prince Philip in the can" jokes.
Wouldn’t that be “Prince Albert” in the can…..unless there is a new joke?