Rolling in a snowdrift, diving into the ice-hole and dousing with ice water is a classic and ancient pastime of a real Russian bathhouse. However, baths nowadays, literally at every step, and not all of them are located on the shore of the river, forest lake or, at the worst, the city pond. What is there a lake. Not every bathhouse even has a swimming pool or a font. To stay without a breathtaking procedure?
No way! Bucket for the bath and desire — here is a guarantee that any, the most unsightly washing room can be equipped with its own waterfall, though not Niagara, in size, but very close to it in feeling.
Simple, as well as all ingenious
Oblivnoe device for baths, for all its simplicity, and at someone’s sophisticated view, and frank primitiveness — an extremely effective bathing tool. If diving into the ice-hole a person is immersed in it with his feet, then tipping a bucket of ice water on himself, instant cooling occurs in the opposite direction. However, in most cases, the sensations are close to the heat of passion and the fountain of emotions. Very sharp change in ambient temperature and sharp cooling of the body surface is a very serious shake for the body. Such a procedure, according to some fiery admirers, has the following positive qualities:
— It perfectly trains the cardiovascular system. For this procedure, as for any branded product, a bright and catchy name — «gymnastics for blood vessels» was invented.
— Increases the tone and turgor of the skin, making them strong and elastic. Of course, cold, as an active stimulus, initiates increased blood microcirculation and supply the skin with nutrients and oxygen.
— Metabolism increases, pressure in the main vessels briefly rises, heart rate increases. Any physiological activity forces the body to shed ballast, activate hidden reserves.
As a consequence, the overall resistance of the body at the immune level increases.
Finally, such a procedure is great invigorating, and in this process, it can hardly be found serious competitors.
There are, however, some disadvantages. And the opponents of this action also have a full sleeve of trumps, read arguments:
For the body it is a shock state, and any shock, including different temperature — a difficult test for the heart and blood vessels. If everything is not all right in this respect — it is worth being cautious.
The human head, and especially the parietal part of the skull — one of the most vulnerable locations of the body as a whole. Therefore, when dousing should not forget about it.
Oblivnoe bucket for the bath, with incorrect use of large amounts of water, can provoke the manifestation of cervical radiculitis syndrome, due to inflammatory processes in the root part of the nerve endings, from a sharp temperature drop or pinch purely mechanical nature, from involuntary sharp movement of the head.
Briefly about the device
the BARELWOOD bath bucket is a wooden container assembled by means of metal, preferably stainless steel, hoops from separate elements — rivets, tightly fitted to each other or connected by means of the «tongue and groove» scheme, minimizing or eliminating water leakage.
Arrangement and fastening of the bucket
In general, the issue of drying out of all-wooden structures is very acute. The container should always be filled with water. In modern conditions it is solved by bringing tap water or water from the well pump in the bath bucket and equipping it with a system of automatic filling, with a cut-off level by means of a float, as in the toilet cistern. Reliable and practical. The main condition is that there should always be a positive temperature inside the bathing room during the cold season, preventing water freezing both in the bucket and in the supply system.
If there is no such an opportunity, and sometimes there is no water supply system, then the bucket is filled manually, as water is consumed from it. And the problem of drying out is solved by pre-soaking. For 3 — 4 hours before the procedure, the container is filled to the top with hot water, so that the swollen wood selected gaps, and leaks are eliminated.
It is worth noting that the bucket for the sauna, in itself is not self-sufficient. For the system to work, it must be equipped with a tipper and a support frame. The supporting frame, as a rigid structure, is fixed to the wall stationary, at a height sufficient for a tall person to be under it, with another to ensure the free movement of the bucket, not allowing to catch the ceiling. Bucket showers for baths, as a rule, has a capacity of 35 to 50 liters, so the system of mounting and suspension, should be designed for 4-fold exceeding the safety margin.
Which wood to choose
Especially relevant such a question stands when you are going to make a bucket for dousing in the bath with your own hands. The choice is between very good material and satisfactory. According to our good tradition, let’s start with the good:
Oak — has high strength, splits perfectly along the fibers, which is very convenient for dressing rivets. High content of tannins, gives water a light coloring and spicy aroma, especially brightly it is manifested immediately after manufacture, over time, this property, of course, fades. Its wood is very resistant to water and is less susceptible to deformation and fungal attack;
Ash — is close to oak in its properties, including its peculiar texture and pattern;
Larch — among the leaders in resistance to the corrosive effects of water. It is not without reason that bridge supports and pile structures were built on larch cortices. It is moderately resinous, hard to work. Quite often there are through knots — nails, which are very undesirable in the production of cooperage products.
Products made of lime, birch, pine, spruce can meet the demands of building such products as wooden buckets for baths, to a greater or lesser extent. If such raw materials are available, they can be used.
The device pouring for the bath with a wooden container can be performed in the form of a simple cylinder with straight riveting and equal diameters of the neck and bottom, or in a more practical form of a tub, where the riveting is also straight, but the diameter of the neck is smaller than the diameter of the bottom.
The most difficult is the manufacture of individual elements, decoration of the mouth and assembly of the structure, with fitting in place. In production conditions, manual labor is replaced by milling on the basis of numerical control. This solves a lot of problems, from complex radius cutting to the design of the tongue-and-groove system with a given interface angle.
Considering the prices of industrially made buckets, especially if you have wooden blanks, the necessary tools and desire, it is definitely worth a try.
Conclusion
Bucket for pouring in the bath BARELWOOD, as a necessary accessory of any organized bath must necessarily need to either purchase or make. In the first place, it can be used as a quick option for cooling or hardening, even in the presence of a pool or font.
