Canvas wall tent

Grizzly Adams said:
Canvas tents breathe, car shelters are plastic bags. :) Humidity is trapped in there and they turn into a sauna, not to mention, fumes from any fuel burning appliance. Might regret your choice.

Grizz
Click to expand...


Very wise advice Grizz, Those Shelter Logic type portable garages that Canadian Tire sells may look like a good idea but their not. The main reason being they don't breathe. They will condensate inside to the point of constant dripping even with a woodstove set up. Several times I have been invited into one of these set ups to socialize with the boys and I observed and heard the stories of the constant battle with condensation and things getting wet from the dripping.

The teepee idea sounds like a good set up, but they weren't around commercially when we were in our hay day. I guess the natives knew a thing or two. Inventing the canoe and teepee
 
mrgoat said:
Very wise advice Grizz, Those Shelter Logic type portable garages that Canadian Tire sells may look like a good idea but their not. The main reason being they don't breathe. They will condensate inside to the point of constant dripping even with a woodstove set up. Several times I have been invited into one of these set ups to socialize with the boys and I observed and heard the stories of the constant battle with condensation and things getting wet from the dripping.

The teepee idea sounds like a good set up, but they weren't around commercially when we were in our hay day. I guess the natives knew a thing or two. Inventing the canoe and teepee
Click to expand...

X2 Goat, but the odour kills me moreso than the moisture.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Canvas tents breathe, car shelters are plastic bags. :) Humidity is trapped in there and they turn into a sauna, not to mention, fumes from any fuel burning appliance. Might regret your choice.

Grizz
Click to expand...

A canvas tent would be swell, but I can't afford one right now. Last year we used a pair of Ez ups and a bunch of tarps so I don't think this can be any worse... As for fumes, the only appliances we use in the shelter is a Lantern, all cooking gets done outside, and we heat with a wood stove...

I can't imagine a car shelter being worse than the haggard mess of tarps we used last year lol
 
sVp811v

yiIMita

95nG4nb

Images are in reverse order

Two years ago we tried a nice wall tent that my son bought from some tent maker in North Bay.
The quality was excellent but it took quite a bit of effort and some very long poles to put it up. It needed trees to tie the ropes to or as someone suggested some t-bar stakes. We still had to build a cook house and a drying room as he did not want moisture in the canvas tent.
Last year it was back to a roll of six-mil plastic and a lot of staples. If you are lucky and summer fisherman don't need the firewood then your poles to build a framework may still be there next year. The only drawback is you have to fold/roll up all the plastic and take it home with you and find the correct recycle bin to put it in. And yes canvas tents are heavyyyyyyyyyy.
 
Last edited:
Deluxe Wall Tents - made in Canada, great quality, colour coded aluminum frame is relatively light - quick to set up. Excellent customer service - free shipping.

I'd buy again!

IF you have the $$$$ then consider Arctic Oven tent. Did the math though and a 12x12 would be +$4000 by the time it gets here. Too rich for my blood!
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Canvas tents breathe, car shelters are plastic bags. :) Humidity is trapped in there and they turn into a sauna, not to mention, fumes from any fuel burning appliance. Might regret your choice.

Grizz
Click to expand...

I've never seen any that are air tight no matter how tight you tie them. As long as there's some ventilation and there's a "fly" covering the entire unit,even wood stoves damped down shouldn't be an issue.
 
Trimmer 905 said:
I've never seen any that are air tight no matter how tight you tie them. As long as there's some ventilation and there's a "fly" covering the entire unit,even wood stoves damped down shouldn't be an issue.
Click to expand...

True - they are very leaky. I spent a week in one last week and you could hardly stand by the stove from the heat it was throwing off but at the far end of the tent water bottles were freezing.
 
in ironnoggin's hunting adventure thread there is a good pic of a Teepee tent and it looks the same as ours. Made in BC interior.
One guy can carry the entire tent system easily in a bag no larger than a full size pack. I think it weighs maybe 40 pounds all in? or even less.
Sheds rain and snow, withstands extreme weather from valley to mountain top and sets up with 2 guys in around 20 minutes once you know what you are doing.
woodstove ends up in the center giving even heat to everyone. on some trips our woodstove is just an old school prospector stove that my brother gave my hunting partner a few years back. Thing is an antique but still heats that tent pretty good. But most woodstoves cool off by the time morning comes so we built a sheet metal box for a small camper furnace and run that with the chimney and a 20lbs propane bottle at night time.
Can't say enough about these tents though in the last 2 years we have been cheating and roughing it in an R-Pod offroad camper trailer hehehe It is totally a hotel room on wheels
 
When you baton down the hatches in a wall tent it seals out the weather pretty good , no drafts. In -20C you could wear a T-shirt as long as the wood stove is going. At night I let the wood stove burn out because it's too hot and then I can't sleep.
 
We have a wall tent bought from Cabela's, forget the brand, bought a pole kit for it (not a frame kit, a Fraction of the price). Bought an old forrestry tent for a kitchen tent, bought another pole kit that would fit it.
2 people, maybe 2 hrs to be set up both with coffee perking and cots ready for bed. On a solo bear hunt about an hour to set up one ready for bed and stew on the stove.

Whatever you buy, buy a plastic tarp to put over it, cut a very oversize hole for the chimney pipe. All tents will get wet without a plastic tarp cover.
 
45ACPKING said:
in ironnoggin's hunting adventure thread there is a good pic of a Teepee tent and it looks the same as ours. Made in BC interior.
One guy can carry the entire tent system easily in a bag no larger than a full size pack. I think it weighs maybe 40 pounds all in? or even less.
Sheds rain and snow, withstands extreme weather from valley to mountain top and sets up with 2 guys in around 20 minutes once you know what you are doing.
woodstove ends up in the center giving even heat to everyone. on some trips our woodstove is just an old school prospector stove that my brother gave my hunting partner a few years back. Thing is an antique but still heats that tent pretty good. But most woodstoves cool off by the time morning comes so we built a sheet metal box for a small camper furnace and run that with the chimney and a 20lbs propane bottle at night time.
Can't say enough about these tents though in the last 2 years we have been cheating and roughing it in an R-Pod offroad camper trailer hehehe It is totally a hotel room on wheels
Click to expand...

Do you just make poles then? I do like the teepee setups, too rich for my blood right now but if I was going to spend the money on a canvas wall tent I'd be seriously considering a teepee. How many guys does yours fit?
 
45ACPKING said:
we used wall tents for years but the TeePee tent has seen the wall tents collecting dust for several years now. worth taking a look before you dive into a wall tent.
Click to expand...

Tried searching as you have it spelled but came up with stuff all over the board, you wouldn't happen to have a website would you?
 
I agree with every piece of advice provided by Mrgoat. I would only add: don't buy a dark colour. Our moose hunting group has a dark green canvas tent that we use for sleeping arrangements when we travel "light". Once tarped up, the visibility is awful! We also have a basic pole tent for common get together and drying clothes. We used to heat with a woodstove but now we heat it with an old carburetored fuel oil furnace (150 litres or so does the week). We usually bring plywood sheets to frame a floor. Here's a pic of the pole tent in between the toy haulers....Ya, we certainly don't suffer while moose hunting.
tJg27nG.jpg

Yes that is snow in September!
asazSFS.jpg

Consequently, the drying of wet clothes. Can't really see the tent through the camo...
 
We love our wall tents. But I haven’t tried the tipis. We have slept 4 in a 12x14, but it’s very tight. My buddy has a 16x20 from delux wall tents, it’s awesome for 4. Keep an eye on the used markets, a 14x16 with poles popped up here on kijiji the other day for $400. Sold in minutes of course, but someone got a hell of a deal.
 
I have a 12x12x5 northwest tent no rips or tears good shape ,, 8 ft center pole ,, heavy canvas ,,, plus 3 cots a coleman stove, plus a coleman lantern ,, I would sell for 600 ,, Morinville alberta ,, pm for details if interested ,,, can be seen on alberta town post
 
Princess auto sells canvas Tarps. I wonder how hard it would be to make a cover for a portable car garage... Get the garage for $250-300, another $300-400 in Tarps... If you're willing to spend the time sewing it together you could probably have a 10x20 canvas shelter for under $800...
 
I've used canvas camping tents in Ontario and NWT. They are great to use due to portability and can be heated by a wood stove. The end of the tent is the better location for the stove pipe as it make it easier to cover the roof with a heavy tarp. Having camped during a week of rain and snow makes the roof tarp a worthy addition to weather-proofing the tent. Go as big as you can afford and make sure it's dry when it' folded up and put away when the season is over.
 
Highwind said:
I've used canvas camping tents in Ontario and NWT. They are great to use due to portability and can be heated by a wood stove. The end of the tent is the better location for the stove pipe as it make it easier to cover the roof with a heavy tarp. Having camped during a week of rain and snow makes the roof tarp a worthy addition to weather-proofing the tent. Go as big as you can afford and make sure it's dry when it' folded up and put away when the season is over.
Click to expand...

And, plan on at least two guys to set it up. :)

Grizz
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom