Solo winter use Tatonka

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Solo winter use Tatonka

Postby Moondog55 » Sat 07 Jan, 2017 3:18 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... 2376008028

Any body heard anything? Good or bad?
Ve are too soon old und too late schmart
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Re: Solo winter use Tatonka

Postby johnk1 » Sat 07 Jan, 2017 4:50 pm

Don't know anything about this particular tent but I had a Tatonka Mountain Dome for about 15 years and it was a great tent.

Survived many a storm with ease.

This one looks too cheap to pass up.

I think I will get one myself.
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Re: Solo winter use Tatonka

Postby johnk1 » Sat 07 Jan, 2017 4:52 pm

Sorry MD.

Just seen that there was only one available.

All yours.

I reckon this is a bargain
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Re: Solo winter use Tatonka

Postby Moondog55 » Sat 07 Jan, 2017 4:55 pm

Take it I haven't sold the gear to pay for it yet and I still have the Minaret
it is that great vestibule that attracted me for winter use
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Re: Solo winter use Tatonka

Postby andrewa » Sat 07 Jan, 2017 10:00 pm

A bit like a Hilleberg.....mind you, my Nallo 2GT is a tight fit for 2, luxurious for 1. Depends what your looking for.

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Re: Solo winter use Tatonka

Postby Chezza » Sun 08 Jan, 2017 11:56 am

That's from their cheapest range - you can tell by the brown polyester fly. I helped someone set one of these up once. Was shocked to find the end tie-outs do not have strap adjusters to tension the fly. Needless to say, our pitch was a bit flappy. Was otherwise okay.

Nothing wrong with Tatonka in general. in fact, their Abisko vastly outperformed all other tents in this series of outdoor wind tests:

http://www.outdoor-magazin.com/zelte/te ... 6378.3.htm

There's one very simple reason they are better than just about any other tent in a sideways blow. Their side guy lines are high enough on the pole arches to resist wind loads, whereas most other manufacturers put them much too low to be effective because (I'm guessing...) they are worried about people over-tensioning them and over-stressing the poles.
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Re: Solo winter use Tatonka

Postby Franco » Sun 08 Jan, 2017 12:43 pm

"they are worried about people over-tensioning them and over-stressing the poles".
As much as I go on about setting a tent up taut, some do pull them out of shape , the temptation is always there to go that extra bit.
( I also do that with my taps , odd that they start dripping after a while...)
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Re: Solo winter use Tatonka

Postby Chezza » Sun 08 Jan, 2017 1:09 pm

Franco wrote:"they are worried about people over-tensioning them and over-stressing the poles".
As much as I go on about setting a tent up taut, some do pull them out of shape , the temptation is always there to go that extra bit.
( I also do that with my taps , odd that they start dripping after a while...)


I do that too. But the engineer in me says products can be designed to withstand abuse while still being light, and it's the generally poor state of design and material selection in the tent industry that's really to blame. But this is a very price-sensitive market, so that limits what we get.
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