Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby Moondog55 » Sat 24 Dec, 2016 9:35 am

Looky-See what just turned up on eBay

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Giant-Geodes ... 2326405759

Enough overkill even for me but i can't carry it in
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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby Moondog55 » Thu 29 Dec, 2016 8:18 am

There is this huge tent for sale with local pick-up
The large sail area of the almost vertical side walls would be a bit of a problem but I do have a surplus of tall straight poles I could use.
No way I could drag it in but I could always ask Steve Lee to drop it off for me and this one would be so easy to put a wood stove into
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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby johnrs » Thu 29 Dec, 2016 1:55 pm

And Moondog
There would be somewhere to park the Skidoo/Sled/Reindeers/ Bombadier!!!
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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby Moondog55 » Thu 29 Dec, 2016 3:44 pm

Yes it's really too big by 30%
It has the big advantage of being able to be propped up by straight poles tho and a price I can afford
Leaving the other tent for the future perhaps or as I said earlier a dedicated bedroom
Main tent is 3400 * 3400 internal
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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby Moondog55 » Tue 03 Jan, 2017 12:39 pm

My birthday in 3 weeks time

I just very cheekily went on Facebook and asked friends and family to crowd-fund a new S/H tent for winter, stupid me linked to the cheap huge $150- tent instead of the $600 unit.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/222358470263 ... EBIDX%3AIT

If they all chipped in $10- it will be less than how much I've already spent on beer for the party; actually it was for Xmas dinner and most unusually nobody drank anything except water and soft drink
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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby Moondog55 » Sat 14 Jan, 2017 12:19 pm

Sellers just accepted an offer of $100- on the big tent so guess what I'll be using this ski season.
:D
It is far from perfect but as it probably wouldn't last 3 months anyway even if it was new that's OK.
Input appreciated as soon as I get it erected and take pictures close up
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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby Moondog55 » Fri 20 Jan, 2017 11:25 am

Tent is up in the back yard and as expected it has some design and manufacturing compromises that need to be addressed and it leaks in a more than a few spots.
The plastic "C" clips are huge tho so going to 20mm tube for the vertical poles would be easy, although I don't know if standard aluminium tubing in 20*1.6mm would be much stronger than the 16*0.7 steel poles it came with.
not enough velcro to fix fly to frame and all the tie down points need extra strength
Doors are great big "D" type tho and the vestibule is a good size for rainy entries; just needs extra wands to keep the unsupported material to less than 600mm.
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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby Moondog55 » Sat 28 Jan, 2017 12:00 pm

Moondog55 wrote:Yes it's really too big by 30%
Main tent is 3400 * 3400 internal


My mistake, that is the external size, internal is 3100 * 3100.
Still a big tent tho.
When ALDi has the sale of camping gear at Easter I think I will buy 4 of their LW adjustable aluminium poles and use 2 on each long side; held to the horizontal wand with PVC T-pieces [ putting the spike though a quad of grommets I will sew on] and use a pair of the same T-pieces to support a third wand across the centre of the tent.
There will still be a lot of unsupported area but perhaps I can run a longitudinal wand lengthwise, all the existing FG wands need replacing with the biggest I have which is 12mm, or, if I can find the money Easton wands.
I need to wait until the stove heater is built to determine at what height I need to put the fireblanket
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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby Moondog55 » Sun 29 Jan, 2017 1:00 pm

So today I rummaged through the shed and got some stuff together
Basically this is what I contemplate as the modifications on the tent itself
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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby Moondog55 » Fri 10 Feb, 2017 6:23 am

Why DIY when some stuff on eBay is so cheap?
I just bought a waterproof polyester shade sail
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/291500365834 ... EBIDX%3AIT

Ivory should help me blend in to the background and I can always rattle can camouflage it if I have to, have to work on a really strong external frame to support the fly now but somewhere in the shed I should have 6 sections of large diametre Easton pole
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Re: Tent for next winter ? Design input and help

Postby Moondog55 » Sun 12 Feb, 2017 7:55 am

Anything else I'll post in the DIY section where I'll start another thread with the same name
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