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Hot meal while in the Saddle

LetrRipTaterChip

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Anyone found or used a small shelf attached to the tree to run a backpacking stove to boil water? I have an MSR stove and a Jetboil and was looking for something to set the stove on to boil water to make a hot meal on the long cold days. I know HME makes a small shelf but it is a screw in and looking for something that isnt a screw in. I have a JX3 Hybrid as well as a Tethrd Saddle and would like to be able to just have a small place to set coffee mug, boil water, calls, whatever.

Thanks!
 
Anyone found or used a small shelf attached to the tree to run a backpacking stove to boil water? I have an MSR stove and a Jetboil and was looking for something to set the stove on to boil water to make a hot meal on the long cold days. I know HME makes a small shelf but it is a screw in and looking for something that isnt a screw in. I have a JX3 Hybrid as well as a Tethrd Saddle and would like to be able to just have a small place to set coffee mug, boil water, calls, whatever.

Thanks!
Just make it at home and throw it in a quality thermos. Boiling water with ramen or boiling soup/hot chocolate will be plenty warm mid-day. Leave the cook ware and mess/stink at home. Easy.
 
Interesting! I've lugged in a thermos of scalding hot coffee and used MRE heater packs for a sorta warm meal. Never contemplated cooking in the tree but bet you could fashion a shelf with a strap and some tinkering to make a small shelf. The way I hand my pack I can stash a cup or thermos in the open top.
 
Im thinking more for like a Peak dehydrated meal or Heathers choice dehydrated, something like that. Hot beverage I get and understand but carrying water that I can use for both warm applications and drinking water is two different things.

I currently live in AZ and do a lot of Western hunting, Spot and Stalk or large hike ins but am moving back to Michigan for my wifes work and would like to still keep some of my same routines/systems because I know they work for me
 
I may have found somewhat of a solution and am going to play with modifying this a bit. This is the HME shelf but a different attachment system and I think I can make some adjustments to it and make it work.


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Why not just hang your jetboil from a gear hanger with some 550 cord? The gas is screwed on and won’t go anywhere once you twist the burner onto the cup portion. Then just break it down and stow it away like you were ground hunting.
 
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I've used these for all day sits in the cold. This and a 20oz bottle of water is enough to heat up food to (almost) too hot and the left over water is used with the gatorade powder in the pack. Don't use them very often, but if I'm going far in on public all day, it sure is nice to eat hot food.
 
Anyone found or used a small shelf attached to the tree to run a backpacking stove to boil water? I have an MSR stove and a Jetboil and was looking for something to set the stove on to boil water to make a hot meal on the long cold days. I know HME makes a small shelf but it is a screw in and looking for something that isnt a screw in. I have a JX3 Hybrid as well as a Tethrd Saddle and would like to be able to just have a small place to set coffee mug, boil water, calls, whatever.

Thanks!
You are brave! I feel like I would somehow dump boiling water on myself
 
I may have found somewhat of a solution and am going to play with modifying this a bit. This is the HME shelf but a different attachment system and I think I can make some adjustments to it and make it work.


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You could easily make a similar setup with a squirrel step and some kydex. Would be easy to attach to the tree that way.
 
Well not gonna lie I think that is ridiculous but maybe equally ridiculous I impulsively bought a laptop sling like this thinking I could kill two birds with one stone and get work done in the tree. That turned out to be a half-baked idea, but it would give you a flat surface to work with as long as you don't dump it and end up with 3rd degree burns.

 
ust make it at home and throw it in a quality thermos. Boiling water with ramen or boiling soup/hot chocolate will be plenty warm mid-day. Leave the cook ware and mess/stink at home. Easy.

This is what I do. boil water in the morning and throw in my yeti. Add the ramen in the tree, close the thermos and wait 5 min. Viola!
 
cheaper than a rut roost but no leveling built in, you could take that HME shelf and weld legs on it to create a mini version of this
 
So apparently I should have just looked further. Search on Amazon and both Jetboil and MSR sell hanging kits for their stoves. I know I could probably make this for less $ but ordering it is way easier. still may try and make the small shelf option work though.

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I have this and have used it during all day sits
It works well if you’re ok with bringing the Jetboil
 
What is your climbing method?

Here I was, waiting on another SH joker to tell us to use the “one stick method”, “2TC”, or “come to the light”…..because, you know, those are the greatest things ever invented and the solution to everything and could probably cook your meal and deliver it to you up in the tree….LOL….(yes, I’ve been hanging around here too much lately!).
 
Primal step and a piece of plywood for the cheap. Maybe just a well formed piece of kydex on a strap of any kind (wouldn’t pack well).

if dead set on cooking in a tree, that hanging system would make me setup within reach of a limb….assuming it hangs low enough to prevent the tree I was tied to from going up in flames…..
 
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