3 foot tent or taller - or illegal!?

[Samon]

Yo!

Bare with me folks, I've had s tipple and heard a 'law' I'm unfamiliar with and quite uncertain of.

A tent must be atleast 3 foot tall or it is illegal to camp in.



Sounds like bs. I've not done my research but I'm curious to the authenticity of this claim.

Please add,

Cheers!

 

[sunndog]

giiiiiiive over!

 

[Craig88]

Sounds like bs to me what about bivi bags or however you spell it and tarps can be any height

 

[Nice65]

Few beers, crappy knots...could reduce it to a foot high quite easily. I tried pitching up once and woke up with the thing wrapped round me all covered in frost. Not my finest moment, but the wine is cheap in France and I was on my first campsite

I think it's unlikely to be a legal thing, well I'd like to hope not.

it's registering on the gauge look

 

[ozzy1977]

New one on me.

 

[GGTBod]

when the wind is high the tarp goes lower, foot high if need be, can't see how such a law if it existed could be enforced

 

[JonathanD]

What on Earth?

 

[wandering1]

What the ....... My BS detector just went of the chart and busted

Minimum 3 ft or its illegal....what twoddle if that's true I've been breaking the law for the last 15 yrs

 

[bambodoggy]

can't see how such a law if it existed could be enforced

With a tape measure?

 

[Bigfoot]

So everyone who is forced to spend a night in an emergency bivvi due to adverse conditions is breaking the law? Absolute tosh. I know the law can be an bottom but by and large it *tries* to follow common sense.

 

[andybysea]

Admit nothing Wandering1.

 

[sunndog]

What the ....... My BS detector just went of the chart and busted

Minimum 3 ft or its illegal....what twoddle if that's true I've been breaking the law for the last 15 yrs

Now you've gone and done it!.......you'll snatched off the street, bundled into a black van and sent to the gulag within 24hrs

 

[Samon]

Lol so its sullbhit then?

I thought as muchh,but present company for the night was rather sure of it.

Nice to know its bum excretion, but eek if it was true!

 

[Angry Pirate]

Aye, full on bs
My Wild Country Voyager is sub 3' high and is typical of a backpacking tent height and I doubt they'd all be ignorant of the law.
In other news, they've taken gullible out of the dictionary

 

[petrochemicals]

Probably only on Tuesdays and Thursdays actually

 

[9InchNinja]

Camping in a snow cave is a big no-no then?!

 

[Nice65]

Camping in a snow cave is a big no-no then?!

It's all fine and legal, you need to read the T&Cs, then sign... crazy thread, funny though

Owls outside calling hard, and 633 Squadron of Craneflies swept in as I went out for a roll-up. 7 of them. I've ousted 3, the dog has left one mutilated, and two are just being useless against the walls. Anyone else got lots of Daddy Longlegs this year? Anyone know what they actually do, or benefit?

If there's info I'll start a thread. They seem a bit...rubbish at most things. I wondered if they had any saving attributes?

 

[Wayland]

Craneflies eat mozzies and feed birds.

That makes them useful in my book.

 

[skate]

Could this 3ft rule relate to the construction of tents for sale? Bivys and tarps are not tents so don't come under the same rule. Just a guess

 

[brambles]

It sounds like the sort of pub conversation turned "fact" law that people often like to get het up about and then the Daily Mail will write an outraged article about, when it was never true in the first place! I came across an article online recently where a lot of people were claiming entirely wrongly that it was illegal to give someone a negative job reference and they were all completely convinced what they were saying was true because "it's the law!" ..... no, it's not and it never has been.