Someone start a new tent thread please

[BillinOregon]

I've got the cabin fever something awful. I want to read about more tents.


:haha:

 

[Coot]

Go to the Tentsmiths website - good reading there.

 

[BillinOregon]

Been a while since I have haunted their halls. Good idea!

atriot:

 

[coloradoclyde]

This should occupy you for a little while.... :wink:

https://youtu.be/nAsF8OyFNEI
http://www.crookedtreefarm.com/history/camping.pdf
http://www.ushist.com/set-dressing/tents.shtml
http://www.rklodges.com/
https://secondvirginia.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/tents-part-1/

 

[Silky921]

I like that converted a frame tent. Can't remember seeing that one before, but it makes sense to go that route on a warmer night. Have a buddy who has an a frame tent that I'm to show that to.

Thanks for sharing Clyde.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I like that idea too... Jas Townsend sells one... http://jas-townsend.com/convertible-wedge-tent-p-53.html
but I think any double door wedge tent would work.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Yes that's all it is..., a double door wedge. I've also seen a Tentsmith Factory Tent ordered so that half of one side would be opened up like an awning, so you had a sort of "porch" area in the heat with an enclosed area (a triangular curtain was hung inside) where gear could be stored (and the owners didn't have to worry about 21st century stuff laying out)

LD

 

[nessmuk]

This is our set up for four people at the Fort Frederick Market Fair about 5 years ago. The tents are by Tentsmith and the tarp is from Panther. The tents are the French 1750 with the 4" bell and there is plenty of room for 2 people in each tent with all their stuff stored in the bell area. We can lower the tarp in bad weather if needed. We have found the wedge tent to work best for us.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Just like staying at the Hilton... :thumbsup:

 

[BillinOregon]

Nessmuk, that looks like a very, very comfortable camp. How and where would you heat in cold weather? Guessing a fire out front.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Myself I would put a stove pipe insert in the middle of the awning somewhere, so I could put a stove in the middle of the foyer....That way it could be utilized for heat and cooking by both parties...You could even sit next to it with one side of the center awning open and watch the world go by while staying warm and enjoying a cup of coffee....

 

[nessmuk]

Clyde: That is how the camp to the left of me is set up. His fly is 16" between 2 larger wedge tents and the stove pipe goes out the rear of the fly an you noted. My fly is 12" wide and when It gets cold we bring our cooking brazer in under the fly with a small fire in it or we go to the neighbors camp.

 

[BillinOregon]

When do stove pipe inserts appear in the historical record? I have no idea.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Stove pipes protruding from tents are pictured in civil war photos....

 

[Loyalist Dave]

The Sibley Tent, conical with a heating stove in the center, was patented in 1856. :grin:

LD

 

[BillinOregon]

Dave, I had forgotten about that Sibley stove. http://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2760M/lots/118

 

[cowboysteve]

An equally interesting question is when did machine stitched tents show up? Stoves, stitching....we may end up on the slippery slope of HC. I for one don't want to give up my tiny antique Sears and Roebuck pot belly stove on next week's cold February Rondy in Oregon's High Desert.

 

[Coot]

The first practical sewing machines were developed around 1844-45.
Allowing several years for them to get into production and distribution, I would guess that you might start seeing a few machine sewn tents in the early 1850s. :hmm:

 

[Old Timer 48]

I've had my eye on the Gold Rush Miner's Pyramid tent from Track of The Wolf. 12'X12' with a small wood stove would be just right.

 

[necchi]

Track of the Wolf simply drop ship's tents from RK Lodge. You can get the very same tent with warranty and up-grade going directly to the source..