tents

[mrsbrown]

Starting to think seriously about tents - making, designing without waiting until two weeks before festival.

I'm searching for soldiers tents - so the kids don't have to share with us.

Here are some things I found.

http://home.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/ma/tents/pictures/de.machinis.html

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~nh0g/tent.html

http://www.past-tents.demon.co.uk/frame.htm

I also did a CAD drawing of our bed, put the tent centre pole about 50cm away from the bed and drew a circle to include the bed, with a bit of leeway either side. It would be 5m in diameter. When the pole is about 10cm from the edge of the bed, the tent is 4m diameter. For tents 3.3m, 3.6m and 3.9m, the resultant rope diameter is 8.8m, 8m and 7.4m. That's based on a tent with a shoulder height of 1.8m => is that too high?

Comments

[sjkasabi.livejournal.com]

If you're using the same side-poleless design I did, add more space around the bed. The walls do bag in more than I allowed for, even when taughtly pegged down.

I was thinking Rowayn prep thoughts yesterday too. I was thinking we needed to get into making tallow and beeswax candles, because my hayfever has been quite good lately and I can actually smell the petrochemical smell of the paraffin ones. Wanna make some next weekend or the weekend after?

[tenbears.livejournal.com]

Yep!