I am interested in getting a tent heater but am worried about the fire hazard in my regular nylon tent. I had been thinking about getting a canvas tent as it would be a lot more fire resistant. So does anyone on here ever use a canvas tent? Either the old school types like they had in the 1980's or an outfitter (hunting) wall tents.
The heater would be one of these http://www.rei.com/product/799532/colem ... tic-heater either that or camping someplace with electric plugins for RV's and using an electric (ceramic) heater with a similar safety rating. Yah, I know... to some people, if you bring a heater than that is not real camping. But dagnabbit, we have a 9 month old that is an extremely poor sleeper... it might help us to get out a bit more knowing that we have this just in case etc.
My family had a canvas tent back in the 80's and as I am sure with all canvas tents it was HEAVY but fine once you got it up.
While researching this I cam accross the following website that lists some of the more robust outfitter tents that a person could buy http://www.livabletent.com/ They even make wood stoves for some canvas wall tents... who knew? Neat concept but I'm not all that interested in blowing a huge wad on on a tent I may or may not use very often! I may just sneak over to my parents and see if I can find our old canvas model... hopefully the moths haven't eaten it!