Eurohike Sandero 4

[Pattree]

Eurohike Sandero 4.

Purchased to replace my Gellert Atlantis 3 (4 person) tunnel tent.

OK so I’m a ground dwelling tent snail. I can live with that.
I’ve always had a fairly large Tunnel tent to back up the tipi which I am continually modifying. This next modification, a new and redesigned skin is going to take a while and the 15 year old back up leaks seemingly (seamingly) irreparably.

The tent is very similar to it’s more professional cousin, the Gellert but every feature from fabric to window design via zips is just a notch down in quality.
The carbon fibre poles are of mixed diameters which means carrying two sizes of spare poles sections and (when I can find some) a few 11.5 - 9mm connector tubes.

I wish I’d known that Blacks are selling the yellow version at half the reduced price. I’d have had it like a shot.

The pegs are the rubbish that you would expect and were replaced before the first outing.

The usual lie about ease of packing is easily swerved. I’ll pack it into the garage that formerly carried the tipi..
I do wish they’d include the quantum dimensional map for folding the tent for packing and a set of vacuum readings for the vacuum chamber needed to fit it into the oe bag.

All in all, assessed after a gloriously sunny three day outing, it is adequate, and as I’m a dyed in the polycotton adequist: what will do will do.

 

[Pattree]

For obvious reasons, I have been reading a number of reviews of the Eurohike Sandero4.

The mostly positive reviews throw up two general issues that tent manufacturers, not just Eurohike, need to address:

1. Either:
The bag needs clearly to indicate that the pegs enclosed with this tent are for demonstration purposes only;
Or
They should provide pegs that are appropriate to the purposes for which they advertise the tent can be used.

B. The carry bag should be 25 - 33% bigger and provided with crush straps.

To quote one reviewer who reflected the view of most of them:
“There is no way on God’s little green earth that the tent will ever go back into its carrying bag.”

They, like me, have a more comfortable and rapid alternative.

 

[slaine_23]

It has to be one of the dumbest things possible to make the tent bag just that little bit too small for the blasted thing to fit back into. Example: I have a larger Gelert tent which will never fit back into its bag. Add a couple of extra heavy pegs, utterly forget it. Thing lives in a permanent state of what appears to be a tent trying to escape its confines with a Mr Creosote impersonation.

 

[Toddy]

Car boot liner, costs £3 in Home Bargains last time I bought one....black, waterproof. Drop tent in and roll it up. Couple of big 'elastic bands' cut from old inner tubes, or buy some velcro and use that, or even bungee cords.
Works for my teepee

Sort of like this, though this is posh, mine's just a rectangle with 8" sides.

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A great boot liner that is ideal for those of you with muddy dogs that want to keep the boot tidy and protect your bumper from scratches. Summit Pbl-1 Protective Boot Liner. Bottom base 110cm x 80cm and side panels inc bumper protector are 37cm with flexible press stud and zip corners.

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[Pattree]

I use this:
So useful. All sorts of stuff in the end pockets - augers, spare guyline, cups, pre-prepared hot flask, mallet, sleep mat etc etc etc.

Most important:
No stress in tipping rain or with frozen fingers trying to strike camp.

 

[Toddy]

That was pretty much my deal with the boot liner....it dries off so easily, washes clean of mud and grass with no fuss. Best bit too is that it opens up to give me a dry area to sort stuff out.

Keep it simple; it works fine

 

[Pattree]

Thank you @Toddy
I took your point about the boot liner being a useful groundsheet.

While fossicking in a resource box I found some heavy duty poly cotton
The piece is big enough to wrap the tent without any modification.
Just two old luggage straps and the jobs a goodun.

Since last posting I did, just once, compress the tent into its original bag. The experience was not pleasant and it is quite possible that the amount of force needed to get the zip closed could damage the tent.
There is no way I’d manage that under field conditions.

What is more, having eventually closed the zip - there on the carpet were the poles and pegs laughing at me!!!


The original tent bag and the Toddy style wrap compared.

Tents without tears!!!

Quarts and pint pots come to mind!

 

[Minotaur]

I am going to rip off Paul Messner's idea of having one lot of good pegs and using them for everything.
I have had a few tent bags with a one way zip which is just insane. Getting a tent into its bag in the wild is down to lots of use and good weather. I tend to have a few heavyweight bin bags for bad weather when I just want to get out of the rain and the tent is coming out again anyway. I miss the old canvas tent bags which made a lot more sense and are sort of being revisited by the new hiking tent bags with the straps.