Snorkle Hot Tub
Our neighbor has one of these which we've used with great appreciation and delight. It's your basic wood-fired, fresh water, aromatic wooden hot tub. Takes two or three hours to heat up, but it's pretty thrifty with the fuel. The gut is a marine-grade aluminum stovebox, which you can purchase alone (choice of large or small) or in a cedar/redwood tub and stove combo that costs about half of a modern fiberglass version. Even the small one is roomy enough for three. Bathers are safely protected from the submerged stove by a metal and wood shield. A drip of Clorox between soaks keeps the water tame. Discounting your labor in making firewood and keeping the firebox stoked, the upkeep is free. This tub is ideal for a remote cabin, cottage or hideout anywhere off the grid -- precisely the kind of place where a steaming hot bath with an open view is most welcomed.
--KK
Snorkle Stove
$750
6 ft diameter by 4 ft high Cedar Tub with Snorkle Stove
$2600
Snorkle Tubs
800-962-6208
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Jack Lieberman
I helped put one of these together for a friend. It took about 5 times as long to assemble as was estimated in the manual, and I'm pretty good at these things. More importantly, the amount of wood needed to keep the tub hot is enormous AND the wood needs to be cut very small. Lots of labor and bother. We ended up after a year buying a propane powered hot tub heater (no electricity required). Ya, it's fossil fuel, but it sure works better than cutting tons of wood into very small pieces. I wouldn't recommend the wood heater unless you love chopping wood for days.