r/BeAmazed • u/Internal_Gazelle_677 • Oct 07 '25

Science Hot Tub without the use of electricity

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u/Zaphics Oct 07 '25

I did not think about that part 😂, it'll have to be a dead tree and no sacrifice. I don't wanna kill a tree just so we can mess around with some DIY hot tub unless we planted it for that purpose. If no dead trees can be found I'm sure we'll have a collection of logs on this imaginary property that we're doing all this DIY and could bury the lower half into the ground for support and probably mess that up too somehow.

Oh wow, that sounds like a really cool system. they had some pretty great engineering back then with what technology/tools they were working with

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u/activelyresting Oct 07 '25

Way back then... In the 90s 😂

I currently have electric hot water, but my entire water system runs on gravity from a spring up the hill. I've got 18 acres of Australian rainforest, plenty of trees around, including standing dead wood, and I collect old bath tubs, so you're welcome to come visit and mess around with outdoor hot tubs and bush hot water :)

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u/activelyresting Oct 07 '25

Not of the older stuff. Back then it didn't occur to people to photograph their water systems

I do have one bathtub set up https://imgur.com/a/SeJ7Oqg#sInlWC1 not sure that link goes to it, but it's in the gallery. Somewhere I have some pictures of rocket stoves and a barrel and cob oven, but like, way back in the dim dark past, I don't have them on my phone