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Dancing Spirit,

I see from one of your pics you have a long irrigation pipe with a bit of fog coming out. did you just use the perforated pipe to direct the fog, or did you stuff the pipe with ice (or dry ice) to chill the fog, too?

I'm working on a good way to create thick ground fog this year, and I'd really like to hear from people who have ideas that work!

TK421- you want a Fog Chiller. There are lots of examples to find here on HF.

Depends on your weather, really.

For us, just the perorated, corrugated pipe capped at the end is chiller enough. But, it's typically between 30 and 40 on Halloween night here. Doesn't work in warmer weather.

Generally, Halloween around here is about 40 degrees and damp. Sometimes there's some wind. Last year was actually great! It didn't rain, there was no wind, and it was about 40 degrees.

I have seen several fog chiller designs, and I have tried to make two versions over the last two years, but neither one worked well. I'm sure it's in part due to the cheap juice I'm using. I'll get my hands on some Froggies Swamp Juice and see what a difference that makes.

I guess I'm looking for a GOOD fog chiller that I can build for around $50. Something that will actually work.

Another question: Do you use ice, or dry ice in your chiller?

I didn't use any ice, but I realized that night that I probably should have and I am going to try it this year.

Lacking the time/equipment to make a fog chiller, I found a video on this site that showed the corrigated tube trick. I had two tubes, one infront of each side of the house, each with one fogger. I was going to use one on each end of the tubes, but it didn't work out this year. Maybe next year.

We actually had some unusually cool weather this year and I think that helped, though I would have like more fog. I moved the tube to be perpendicular to the house near the end of the night and that did seem to work better with the wind.

I would like to see how the combination of a fog chiller and the tubes would work out.

Another thing that I was thinking is that, I believe there are two sets of holes in a line along the tube. I was thinking that if I could stake the tube so that the holes were situated to disperse the fog at the optimal angle, that would have helped as well. I think I had the holes pointed straight up, which allowed the fog to disperse faster.

Kept the fog low, but didn't move anywhere.


I also contemplated blocking off the end, so as to force more fog through the small holes.




These two are after I moved the tube and I think the wind was able to disperse the fog a bit more.







The fog wasn't that great, but I did manage to get one pretty neat shot.

Originally Posted by Dancing Spirit

Another thing that I was thinking is that, I believe there are two sets of holes in a line along the tube. I was thinking that if I could stake the tube so that the holes were situated to disperse the fog at the optimal angle, that would have helped as well. I think I had the holes pointed straight up, which allowed the fog to disperse faster.

I used that French drain pipe last year. I duct taped off one set of the holes and the end was capped...that way it can go out sideways on the ground, instead of up in the air.

There are some great setups here. My goal is to do a witches swamp theme with an attached cemetery, this yr we shall add a witch, here is some of my cemetery stuff:

















I didn't have a tripod last year, so hopefully this year I will to get some better photos.