Bushwalk Australia

Anyone know if the lady lake hut metho cooker and heater are still workable?
Also do either lady lake or ironstone huts have a fireplace?
Cheers

tigercat wrote:Also does ironstone hut have a fireplace?

...and if so what's the fuel situation mid winter?

Ironstone hut has a small wood heater. You should start looking out for down, dead wood some time before you reach the hut. There are eucalypt trees up on the ridge towards snake lake and lake chambers, and they might provide a source for dead wood, but its a bit of a walk. I wouldn't expect to find much fuel close to the hut.

The Lady lake cooker was working in January... I don't remember a fireplace there. I think there's a thread here somewhere with photos of the inside of the Ironstone Hut. Try searching on either the hut name or it may have been under a 'Lake Nameless' thread

Son of a Beach wrote:Ironstone hut has a small wood heater. You should start looking out for down, dead wood some time before you reach the hut. There are eucalypt trees up on the ridge towards snake lake and lake chambers, and they might provide a source for dead wood, but its a bit of a walk. I wouldn't expect to find much fuel close to the hut.

Thanks Nik.

GD4Up wrote:The Lady lake cooker was working in January... I don't remember a fireplace there. I think there's a thread here somewhere with photos of the inside of the Ironstone Hut. Try searching on either the hut name or it may have been under a 'Lake Nameless' thread

Yeah, no fireplace at Lady Lake. There is a metho heater (in addition to the metho stove) but it doesn't produce much heat and isn't really worth the effort.

Thanks for the info

I was up at Ironstone over the summer and the fire has a large hole
in the flu - doesnt look like its worked in years.

mArt wrote:I was up at Ironstone over the summer and the fire has a large hole
in the flu - doesnt look like its worked in years.

Has anyone used it recently? Ta

Son of a Beach wrote:

GD4Up wrote:The Lady lake cooker was working in January... I don't remember a fireplace there. I think there's a thread here somewhere with photos of the inside of the Ironstone Hut. Try searching on either the hut name or it may have been under a 'Lake Nameless' thread

Yeah, no fireplace at Lady Lake. There is a metho heater (in addition to the metho stove) but it doesn't produce much heat and isn't really worth the effort.

In my opinion the Metho heater in Lady Lake Hut is really excellent when you get it going properly we had the hut interior cranked up to 22c on our last Strollers trip up there albeit with a full hut and I think we used around 5lt of Metho for the heater and stove.
When last at Ironstone Hut yes there was a hole in the flu and the stove worked OK then .
corvus

Thanks, corvus.

corvus wrote:In my opinion the Metho heater in Lady Lake Hut is really excellent when you get it going properly we had the hut interior cranked up to 22c on our last Strollers trip up there albeit with a full hut and I think we used around 5lt of Metho for the heater and stove.

I obviously didn't have it going properly when last I tried! Line dancing proved a moderately successful alternative.

Like so many things reading the instructions really helps regardless of gender
corvus

Actually I'm an avid instructions reader, corvus. I just can't always figure out what they mean exactly. Been a long time, so i can't remember the problem. The heater was working, but it didn't do a lot. Maybe because we didn't take 5l of metho...

As a multiple stove collector /user I just had to get this bigger version of a hike stove doing what it was supposed to do
corvus

corvus wrote:Like so many things reading the instructions really helps regardless of gender
corvus

We got the metho heater going properly, according to the instructions, and it raised the temperature of the hut by a few degrees eventually. But when the temperature was barely above zero before the heater was going, getting the hut to just a few degrees above that wasn't fabulous, and couldn't really afford to waste more than a litre or so of metho on it.

Didn't have a lot of bodies in the hut that night either.

Son of a Beach wrote:
Didn't have a lot of bodies in the hut that night either.

Sounds like a bushwalking B-grade horror movie..

I always carry a large knife when walking in Tasmania in case of... Tasmanian Devils.

Son of a Beach wrote:Ironstone hut has a small wood heater. You should start looking out for down, dead wood some time before you reach the hut. There are eucalypt trees up on the ridge towards snake lake and lake chambers, and they might provide a source for dead wood, but its a bit of a walk. I wouldn't expect to find much fuel close to the hut.

There is plenty of firewood a few hundred metres from the hut up the track towards 40 lakes peak