Red Neck Hot Tub....coming shortly

David was hooked on hot springs from first site.  He immediately began scheming how to make one on the little budget he was going to get for it.  It needed to accommodate two, be efficient in its water usage, and have as its heat source...wood!   Feverishly he researched, feverishly he schemed.

He was locked on to making his own hot tub.  Now we do have a spring that runs all year around BUT it isn't hot or even warm...just a spring.  This spring will be the water source....it just needs help in being hot.

Watch for its arrival come summer.  Not enough time when we get home to build it but I can see the wheels in his head spinning wildly on this.

When we next go to the Wild West, I can tell it is going to be a hot tub tour...




UPDATE:
Our water source ended up being our well...we were wondering about a pond smell with the spring and there could be parasite issues???  We have no intention of using chlorine in it...just use it for a few days, then water the plants with that water.  The Rubbermaid stock tank that we used has a capacity of about 75 gallons.  The piping David used is initially short tubing for hot tubs and steel that he bent (not your average diy project as he has a tubing bender that he made).  He knew that probably it would rust so eventually that will get replace with stainless tubing. The water has some rust spit out here and there so I think he will be sourcing the stainless pipe sooner rather than later.


It sits perched on a pallet we acquired (thanks Steve).  The first trial was last week and it worked great.  It is not roomy but we wanted to conserve water usage.  It takes about 1.5 to 2 hours to heat up if you get a good fire going.  Then, we needed to watch it for over heating...like too hot to sit in!  David is already scheming what he can do to improve it...what kind of wood and where to stack it, what size pieces, etc.  Improvements:  grandma's patio umbrella (worked great in the rain to cover us and the fire, solar lights, dry place to hang towels, beverage holders.  Pictures are ready just have to get the technical guy to move them from his cell phone to blog....