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[hamms-scooter]

Anyone with funny ,I mean bummer, burn hole stories in your fish house canvas from sunflower heaters?

[LOTWSvirgin]

When I was 12 I got a new starter jacket I begged my butt of to my mom to buy it for me it was a Atlanta Braves. Well she finally buys it and I wear it out fishing after she tells me not to. I walk all the way to the lake to fish with a buddy who had his dads portable out there. I get there and I am froze so I get back up to the sunflower to warm my back side and burn a big @#$ hole in the back of it all I could think of is I just got this jacket not even an hour abog and I already recked it I am dead. Well she didnt kill me but death might of been better since I was grounded from fishing for a month

[Double A]

That's how I got my login name.

[andrew chadwick]

my dad folded my otter down with the lantern still going and hanging from the pole. melted the zipper together

[BartmanMN]

My buddies new Arctic Armor suit has a melted leg and now a melted pocked as well. Not funny, but.....

[ozzie]

It wasn't mine but my buddies while I was catching a fish.....we were on lake of the woods and I hook into something with pull and as I am fighting this fish he runs over to watch all the excitment as it comes to the hole here is this massive pout and all heck breaks loose as I had never caught one and my buddy had never seen one that big and as it flops on the ice we look over at his house and there are flames starting to come from his portable!!! He quickly extinguished the fire and was only left with a softball to volleyball size hole in his door but it was funny even as it was happening......oh and the pout also only had one eye!! Good memories

[shnelson]

I have yet to start the the portable on fire, but my big buddy heater did a good number on my minnow bucket!

It was a little chilly so I cranked it on full blast for a bit, the insulated minnow bucket was about a foot and a half or more away. I went to move the bucket, grabbing the end closest to the heater and all I got was a handful of gooey hot melted plastic. My hand was wet so thankfully I didn't get burned too bad. Tried to push the goo back to where it originally was and let it heal, I now have a mutated bucket that still serves its function .

[fishersofmen]

Guy I work with came out of my eskimo after me and let the door fall against the flower. Softball size hole. Still haven't forgiven him.

[eyehead]

Guy I work with came out of my eskimo after me and let the door fall against the flower. Softball size hole. Still haven't forgiven him.

Same here.....Me and a buddy were on Mille lacs last year. I just got done telling him to hold the door up and close it when he went to take a leak. Wouldnt you know, you walks out the door and flops it on the heater....COME ON MAN!!!!!

[Pleasant]

Oh yeah, snowsuit legs, wall of shelter, and they can melt the side of a plastic pail dam quick also....

[rcatcherman]

Got my bibs once on the leg in portable.

[bobbymalone]

not a sunflower, but a camping stove.

I was lighting up one of those stoves that runs on coleman fuel and didn't have it adjusted right so when it lit, rather than a nice blue flame, it was shooting yellow flames about 3 feet in the air. This was happening on a table in my quick fish VI and the flames were licking the ceiling. I think it would have burnt down if weren't for the condensation up there.

I picked up the stove and set on the ground while it was still burning.

The QFVI survived unscathed.

[Surreal Deal]

I've been pretty fortunate over the years - I've crisped a shirt sleeve and a pair of gloves or two by leaving them in front of the sunflower to dry off & then forgetting them - But no shack fires or meltdowns, thank goodness.

On the white gas front one time I almost barbecued my tonneau cover when I lit a double mantle Coleman on the tailgate and it became an impromptu molotov cocktail. Against my better judgment I stayed with it and got the lantern shut down & moved to safety instead of just chucking it.

[bigfish24]

let my buddies use my porty and a kero lattern they came back with a burnt down porty and my light.

[THEDOGG]

fishing alone in my quick flip 2 and got out to get something from the truck and did not hook the door open well it blew shut against the heater and melter the corner including the zipper thanks to TARPS in savage it's good as new

Second oops, bought my wife a new pair of la cross boots we went up to lake of the woods I have a 10in auger she has small feet just getting set up guess who steps in the hole, well i got her dry socks and thought well I'll just set the boot by the heater cooker, well next thing I know there is a funny smell and looked over and the top of the boot is smoking - now there is a melted area on the top of her boot

[CAD]

Got my bibs down on the leg and also got my minnow bucket. Memories.

[mntim]

Drilling some holes earlier this year and using my buddies auger, well I'm left handed so turn the auger so the throttle is on the left side. So I lean into one hole to get a little extra leverage and feel my left nipple start to burn. Turns out Strikemaster doesn't like lefties and my jacket caught fire on the exhaust. Went all the way through my sweatshirt.

[hamms-scooter]

I have been lucky enough not to have any issues with this.Shouldn't say anymore though...

[Surreal Deal]

Drilling some holes earlier this year and using my buddies auger, well I'm left handed so turn the auger so the throttle is on the left side. So I lean into one hole to get a little extra leverage and feel my left nipple start to burn. Turns out Strikemaster doesn't like lefties and my jacket caught fire on the exhaust. Went all the way through my sweatshirt.

Nipple Chafe!