Wall Tent Setups

david doyle said:
your home insurance should cover it.
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Yup, can't remember the details though. Pretty expensive bit of careless if it hadn't been. these things are supposed to be fire retarded. :D From the moment I spotted a tiny flame on the stove hole cover, which slipped too low and touched the stove pipe, to this, took about 5 minutes. Didn't have water on hand [very stupid], so I just cut the canvas ahead of the flames. Managed to save our sleeping bags.

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Then the next year's home insurance premium goes up
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LOL hear ya I am mr excess liability and minimum comprehensive BUT
Go price out a replacement for that tent and you'll likely see that even a 200 dollar a year premium increase would take over a decade to impact negatively on the bottom line.

Griz, thanks for the pics and the warning, I was being lazy about bringing a few extra pieces of tin and wire to caribou camp this year but seeing your pics made me recalculate!
 
We built a wooden floor for our wall tent camp we set up in Kakwa for sledding inthe mountains. Tent was 14 x 16, overall floor size was 16x20 for porch area. Floor was built in 2'x8' sections, bolted together. We varethaned the panels to help it last. Floor was floated on top of the snow...sometimes up to 15' thick when we hauled camp in. Worked great.


For hunting camp, maybe dont need as extravagant.

We bought a new tent from Deluxe Wall Tents 5 years ago now...more guys...bigger tent. 16x20 with 8' porch. We just layer heavy poly on the ground and tent have either some canvas or the non-woven geotextile product above. Sure nice to walk on in the cool mornings. Both the older tent and the new ones use an internal aluminum frame setup...sure is slick, fast to set up.
 
I got it from these guys. Shipping was pretty quick, maybe a week.

http://www.canvastentshop.ca/anglekits.html

FYI: I weighed all the components of the frame, and it weighs 97 lbs.
 
we have a 14X16 woods prospector with an internal frame and a plywood floor system with 6 mil poly on the ground to keep out moisture for the sleeping tent , and a custom made 12X14 with 6 ft walls with landscape cloth for the kitchen/eating tent. Both have wood stoves, and door systems installed.
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smokeeter, very nice set up!

I think that's the best I've seen so far!

Check out my 'new' air-tight stove.

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I cut the end off a barrel...

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... and inserted it into the bottom of the old stove. I'm gonna get the welding shop up town to run a bead around the bottom to seal it up, add some legs and this thing is good to go!

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The old barrel stove in action, when it had an open bottom.


Edit to add: I'm gonna throw some fire brick in the bottom to protect it from burning through.
 
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Demonical, here's ours, we just use a dirt floor covered with tarps. I like the steel pole set up, since this pic was taken I bought one for our tent too.
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I got my stove finished; had a seam welded around the bottom of the barrel. I made a small stand for the stove.

I'm gonna get a 4'x4' piece of sheet metal to set it on, to protect the floor.

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One of my hunting buddies did the inside pole frame set up.
On each end he welded in rings for a cable to run the length of
the upper poles.
Two reasons, to hold the ends tight, turn buckle on each end and
to hang wet clothes.
Bit of a nusiance, but hey, when their wet a bit of ducking is good
for the abs.
Clothes dry real quick.
I think one of these set ups is cheaper and more better than a camper.
More room and foook the floor.
 
Here's pics of what I built this year.

The floor is 2"x10"x12' planks; quite the chore to haul into camp! I also had a #####-of-a-time with warped boards, Had to use a wedge technique to force a few straighter.

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A floor system with a wall tent set up is a definate bonus. and yours' looks great.
What we did with ours that is also an improvement is to run a 2x4 stringer around the parimeter inside the tent and screwed it down with the sod cloth between the floor and the stringer with deck screws ( it cuts down on any drafts coming into the tent,and securs the tent better). We also drilled a hole partially through the stringer with a spade bit the dia of the internal poles to keep them in place which also helped with future set ups
 
^ smokeeter, yes I came to the same conclusion. When I set up the tent, I screwed short spare pieces of 2"x4" along the bottom, to hold the poles in place while I got the other side poles put in.

I didn't have any spare pieces to leave around the base, as you suggest. But I'm planning on that in the future. :)
 
back40sniper said:
Where did you get framing kit from?
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Our first set up was ordered back in 2006 from Kwik Kamp in Montana. Wall tent was from Edmonton T & A. 14x16x5wall. Gave KK the dimensions of the tent, they bulit the angles to match the pitch and other tent dimensions.

Our new tent bought 5 years ago was from Deluxe Wall Tents (16x20x5walls) with internal aluminum frame.
 
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Btw, this stove is friggin awesome, it is sure enough air-tight. Burn all night with the draft shut and the damper throttled.

I put 2" of sand in the bottom; the piece of tin under the stove is for decoration only. It was not needed at all. The floor is completely cool. In fact, what I will do after this hunt, is trim the legs 6"-8"... whatever height is best for access.
 
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