We want to buy a tent this year. It must be 200 square ft. Or bigger. I am thinking of a wall tent. Something like this, (but used is fine).
http://www.magnumtents.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2
Any advice? We have only owned the cheap chinese tents, nylon, junk.
A wall tent, with a stove, and some folding furniture, would free us up alot.
Thanks for any advice you may have to offer.
Nate
When you mentioned what you wanted, that style of tent was pictured in my mind.
We always would build our own tent from black plastic sheeting and put in a small room on the northwest end or corner for the stove and wood.
The best setups were when we could find four trees in the right place, limb them high enough for our needs and anchor to them for the wall corners and place a draw rope between two of them that would pull the roof into the right pitch.
Camping is one of the best sports every....
Nate ! When I clicked on the link you had up there McAfee went nuts!! Don't know what that may mean.... the guys that do Elk hunts out West have canvas tents that stay put up for the season. I have a 14 by 14 tent that I bought 15 years ago that is still doing fine, just a little big for just me and the grandson!!!
A simple canvas wall tent suits me fine when elk hunting.
A suggestion, just get the canvas portion only. You can build your own stuff better and cheaper than what is available.
Tarp for rain fly.
Homemade wooden pole frame using peeler poles from the forest.
Homemade tent stakes out of #4 rebar. Weld a curved tie down on it.
Tarp, then golf carpet for a floor.
Buy the best stove you can afford.
If you have not used a canvas wall tent before, remember they are very heavy and take about an hour for two guys to set up properly, the same to take it down.
Very good solution for tailgate camping over a period of a week to several weeks.
My dad has one that fits 3 cots, a stove and a small table. It is very comfortable in the worst weather.
JRL
Here's some good ones:
Thanks, cp.
I dunno about the virus thing... could be something.
I found this:
http://www.snipershide.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2004123
It sure looks like a good deal... but I gotta keep the cost lower. And, it is too far to go get.... at 15 mpg!
Somebody out west, well it looks like a good one!
N
We use a modified portable garage, only 10' x 10' sleeps 3 on cots comfortable with a small table. Setting it up next week. Takes about a day to set up and cut firewood, haf-day to take down. Hour hike in, so everything has to be light. Very cozy. Nothing like sleeping well and putting on dried boots in the morning. Heated with small tin stove also used for cooking. The new walls have clear plastic windows in the front and back.
and the reason we go through the effort
Jim
200 sq. ft.? will you need to get approval from local zoning department?
I have one of these:
With a liner & a potbellied USA Stove. I also attached a 8x8 WWII Wall Tent on the back (with a USA Yukon Stove) as a bedroom.
Pretty nice setup...ONCE it's SETUP!
🙂
Loyal
I spent quite a bit of time in a GP small. From sub-zero German nights at Graf to 100 degree days at Ft. Hood. We could get that sucker up in minutes, 3am, in the rain with red-lensed flashlights. The stoves worked well too.
I can't stand the musty smell of most canvas tents. Are you going to use the tent for camping, semi permanent use at your home, or both. If you are on the cheap, you can build something with 2x2 poles and tarps. They are not heavy duty, but you can often pick up "wedding tents" after the wedding cheap. If you really get carried away, you can pick up used Circus or Revival type tents sometimes for a bargain. Farm coops sell the type of tent you first described.
> We could get that sucker up in minutes, 3am, in the rain with red-lensed flashlights. The stoves worked well too.
Nice, I wish I knew how to do that, the tent looks pretty sweet.
Just in the past few years I figured out that the red lens is so much better at night, easier on the eyes, not so much contrast to the darkness, you don't stand out so much to others.
I found this one, at sams club. 250 buks, and we don't plan to pack it in... drive to site. IF it is not too hard to assemble, well, it would be useful for more than camping. We want to be able to travel, and camp with it.
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/shop/product.jsp?productId=prod3470022
Anybody else have one of these?
N
200 sq ft and folding furniture Nate?...I'd go bigger...space can always come in handy
Now that's what I'm talking about Daryl. 🙂
Single Engine airplanes (the older ones, don't know about the new ones) had a red flood lighting on the panel. The red light is on the ceiling. Red doesn't affect your night vision. After being exposed to bright white lighting it takes about a half hour for your eyes to readjust fully to the darkness.
Colored charts (map) look mono colored under red lighting so it's a little harder to read them.
200 sf is kinda my min size... I can add another tent, for some kids, or storage, but 200 would do. Especially if it was fast set up, and take down. Small folding stove, and it would free me to travel. I want to go and see a number of folks, and getting outfitted is one of the first steps.
Low maintenence, and high performance.
N
PS,
2 of these might work...
Then I'd have 150 sf. But, heating it would be harder. Maybe set them up side by side. But, it would leak water between them.
Hmmm
N
Jumpin Jack rig
This is an awesome idea....
http://www.jumpingjacktrailers.com/
I'd like to have one, that was 20' long, and 4' high, colapsed. 6 electic motors, and the HARD top comes up to full height. Strong enough for 4-wheelers on top, and fold out awnings.
HMMM thinking and inventing....
Wish I had one!
N
Jumpin Jack rig
Those are cool.
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The canvas tents will not be moldy and musty if you dry them out before storage.
The tent looks kind of saggy in the photo, thats because it was set up for 10 days and had endured some very nasty weather. We had 4 cots, a stove and a table in the tent. It was a little bit crowded, but we survived.
The new looking stove in the photo was a Cabela's model. The stove came with a larger stove pipe, which kept blowing over because of the surface area and the extra weight up high. The stove we used before was a folding tin style sheep herders stove. Very light weight and fairly compact when stowed away. Either stove would heat the tent up to swealtering temps, reguardless of the weather outside. Very nice after a hard day of hunting in the rain/snow. Some of the stoves have an option to mount a hot water tank on the side, which I think is a great idea for dishes and showers.
If I was traveling and was going to be setting up the tent more than a couple times, I'd go with something lighter.
JRL
Jumpin Jack rig
Holy cats! I forgot how big your family is.... 200 Sq. Ft. is pretty big.
Sounds like you need a 5th wheel with pop outs.
Now I understand the circus tent/wedding tent comments.
