Yearly Archives: 2008

Get Sauna Dismount – Kiuasturvat!

Sauna Dismount

Sauna Dismount

When you can’t get to a sauna you can vent your frustration by throwing a virtual rag doll off the sauna benches in this epic sauna videogame from the makers of the dismount series including truck dismount and stair dismount which I have not yet tried but if anyone has a windows machine please try it out and let me know your top score. Who will win the saunasessions sauna dismount world championship grandmaster title towel?

Thanks to Luke from PBS.

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Lada Roofrack sauna

Lada Sauna

Lada Sauna

This Lada stationwagon looks like it has a sauna roofrack but the sauna is actually part of the car. The house on top is just an extension so you can have some headroom. The stove is in the passenger seat, so I guess the driver can stoke the fire while driving. The driver also has the lowest seat, so they won't get as hot as the people sweating upstairs. Don't take this into an underground parkade.

Another one from vascellari's photostream.

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Saunaseura Kipakka Parade Saunas

Parade Sauna 2003

Parade Sauna 2003

This sauna crew in Kotka has been rolling in the Meripäivät parade with a sauna float since 2000. I don’t think it gets too hot since there are no walls, but they have absolutely everything else: stove, bathers, towels, benches, vihtas, boob bibs. SK clearly owns the parade sauna scene. They don’t even need any walls to keep the heat in. The crew from Saunaseura Kipakka is rolling in this parade having a good sweat anyway.
Parade Sauna 2006

Parade Sauna 2006

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Sauna Dory

Sauna Dory in Teuva, Finland

Sauna Dory in Teuva, Finland

(Teuva, FINLAND)This one of very few sauna boats that makes it to the Teuva Festival. It’s a lapstrake vessel with a small sauna built on top, and there’s stabilizing pontoons to either side. If you look past the lavender pink sauna dory and the matching bikini, you’ll see in the background of the photo there’s a sauna traffic jam on the street outside the Mobile Sauna Festival. That’s why they built their sauna on a boat, they were tired of the commute.

From Andrea Vascellari’s photostream

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Sauna Paku 2000

VW sauna & trailer at Teuva

VW sauna & trailer at Teuva


(Teuva, FINLAND) Imagine what you would see in the USA if the American national symbol was a bathtub? In Finland, nationalism is OK because it looks like this, I think one of the slickest saunas at the Mobile Sauna Festival in Teuva in 2009. Check out the license plate: “SAU-NA”. Chrome rims. Decals. Big barrel of water. The thermometer is shaped like Finland. Built 2007, seats 5.

Andrea Vascellari’s photostream

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Sauna Combine

Sauna Combine

Sauna Combine

The Teuva Mobile Sauna Festival is the ultimate festival Finnish mobile sauna enthusiasts. If you go you will see everything you can (or can’t) imagine turned into a sauna. This is a farm combine. It’s not clear to me if this combine still works for harvest time, but the weather looks about right to put this to good use.

Andrea Vascellari’s photostream

The kid in the photo is scratching his head because he’s boggled at the selection of saunas to choose from at this event, not because this one is in a piece of farm machinery.

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Phone Booth Sauna

phone booth sauna

phone booth sauna

(Teuva, FINLAND) I think this is mobile because you could throw it in the back of a truck. I don’t know about those all glass walls, but I would be willing to try it out with a few friends. This is but one example from the legendary Mobile Sauna Festival in Teuva, FINLAND. Another similar sauna at Teuva joined 4 phone booths into one sauna.

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Bike sauna trailer

bike sauna

bike sauna

This sauna you could probably take anywhere, maybe you'd even start to forget it's there and just take it everywhere. You could fire it up, have a quick sweat and jump in the lake anytime. This one we think is in Helsinki, so he's got lots of really nice places he can go, maybe head over to hiekkarannantie and take a dip in the baltic.

from JohntheFinn's flikr photostream.

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Barnaul Banyatruck

A Classic Banyatruck

A Classic Banyatruck

Barnaul, Altai Region, Russia

This is a very famous mobile sauna, after Reuters ran the story and it got picked up all over the internet. Igor Chupin converted an old military GAZ-66 military vehicle and is charging people 1000 roubles (about $42.37) for ever hour.

Found a new truck for the world mobile sauna roster today out of Siberia. These crazy Russians built one in a military truck. It has an 88 gallon water tank on the roof!

BARNAUL, Russia (Reuters) – Cannot afford to install a sauna in your home? A Russian inventor might have the answer — the mobile sauna.

Converted from a military truck, Igor Chupin offers clients a session in the back of his GAZ-66 truck for 1000 roubles ($42.37) per hour.

“What Russian guy doesn’t love his banya! One day I had the idea to put a bathhouse on wheels and to drive wherever I want!” said Chupin, a self-taught inventor from the Altai region of southern Siberia.

Russians adore saunas, or banyas, spending hours in the steam rooms with friends, swapping stories over tea or vodka. Many hit themselves or others with dried birch leaves to improve the circulation.

Chupin said it took him months to build the traveling banya offers the real Russian experience. It has a 400-litre (88-gallon) water tank on top to provide the steam. It is heated with a wood-fired stove.

(Reporting by Natalya Sokhareva; Writing by Conor Sweeney; Editing by Elizabeth Piper)

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The Sauna Truck is alive and Festivus was sweaty!

festivus-2008-sauna

festivus-2008-sauna


The Sauna truck made it up to Festivus this weekend. Karlis has successfully fixed the sauna truck clutch by hand. The sauna got well used during the 24 hour dj marathon during the chilly night. The sun made us sweat and the river water was glacier cold on the beach during the day. Thank you warmm.ca, Brad, Sarah and Mike for doing the work. The djs slayed, the sound was excellent and the vibe was killer. We enjoyed!
(Woodhead doesn’t mention here that the sweatification got so intense we broke the top bench in the sauna, something that last happened a few years ago at the same location . . . have no fear, repairs are almost complete) The sauna truck is now available for your event. Contact us and let us know when you want a sauna to roll up at your polar bear swim or birthday party. Who doesn’t love to sweat?

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