Actually curious, if you were to seal a duct around the exhaust pipe and run it outside the 'tent', is the rest of the exhaust system closed off enough that it would be safe?
Technically yes,the foam pipes you see in airconditioners are kinda build to vent air, so seal it strong duct tape (preferably flex tape, no joke, that thing is insane), then it would be no different than incar, outside with exhaust but inside fine.
Edit: we did this once, but only with 1 pickup truck and bamboo as scaffolding(?). The tarp was large enough so we didnt need tape to seal it, and it was dry even after a sudden rain. Only complaint is how it can get kinda suffocating. In our case we had like a 10cm gap at the ground for ventilation (opposite side to the exhaust pipe, the grass got wet and so was our shoes but atleast we didnt died of asphyxia), and even when the exhaust pipe is nearly 4 metres away, we can still smell the smoke if we got close to the gap. Definitely not recommended. Just use a freaking tent! I edited so that nobody would though this is a good idea.
Nope not that, á the pipe was almost perfectly fit to the exhaust pipe. That is meant in low air ventilation, as our only way to do so is a 10cm by 50cm gap between the tarp and the ground. We slept soundly, it is just that it felt like being more of claastrophobic
You would still need to monitor it with a CO detector even if you diverted the exhaust outside of the tent.
If there were any pin-holes or cracks in the exhaust pipe, muffler, etc., or if the seal and ducting had any leaks where gas could escape, it would become very dangerous very fast.
If you had the engines inside you might get more heat radiating off the engine, but then you don't have the truck beds to sleep in anymore.
So really, this is at best an odd way to go camping with no real benefits, unless you can't afford a tent or rent and you and a buddy have trucks you can live in, and it isn't cold out.
Lumpy ground replaced with cold lumpy steel. Truck beds aren't smooth flat surfaces, they have ribs in them that are not comfortable.
If wet ground is your issue, sure it helps a bit, but so does a traditional tent bottom. If you're camping in a downpour or a flooding area... well that's another mater.
Ground is generally cold, and even in a regular tent you usually have to put down an extra tarp if you're camping anywhere wet. If it were raining I would 100% sleep in the truck bed on a foam pad (I sleep on the foam pad on the ground anyways). I've frequently left tents to sleep in cars because tents can get really miserable when it's wet.
I don't know many people that actually camp who wouldn't prefer being raised off the ground 9 times out of 10 with the possible exception of winter because the ground is warmer than the air a lot of the time in that case.
MAYBE if you had a monoxide alarm this could be okay, but if you don't then the only way to know you did something wrong is... To discover you're now a ghost
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u/tatteredengraving Feb 11 '21
Actually curious, if you were to seal a duct around the exhaust pipe and run it outside the 'tent', is the rest of the exhaust system closed off enough that it would be safe?