Anyone recommend any camp beds? You know the metal and canvas jobbies.....
Not willing to spend over £50......
Thanks guys for recommends / pointers
LBL
Not willing to spend over £50......
Thanks guys for recommends / pointers
LBL
Anyone recommend any camp beds?
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We have a few different type we use.
The "Cot" type ones that the US Troops use, about 15" off the ground "X" legs and aluminium frame, but they are a bit narrow and I keep banging my knees on the side rails.
The British Army canvas camp bed, close to the ground wit "W" legs and steel bar side runners, nice and wide so I don't bang my knees when I roll over, but the canvas can be a bit "Saggy" and they do tip if you move to one side or the other, amusing at the time though.
And the current one is a Dutch army one with tubular steel side runners with "W" legs, the fabric is a heavy duty nylon and is quite "tight" across the frame when assembled, but it is quite noisy when moving around on it.
All are under £50
I got all three from MASH camping in Gloucester.
Wingstoo
The "Cot" type ones that the US Troops use, about 15" off the ground "X" legs and aluminium frame, but they are a bit narrow and I keep banging my knees on the side rails.
The British Army canvas camp bed, close to the ground wit "W" legs and steel bar side runners, nice and wide so I don't bang my knees when I roll over, but the canvas can be a bit "Saggy" and they do tip if you move to one side or the other, amusing at the time though.
And the current one is a Dutch army one with tubular steel side runners with "W" legs, the fabric is a heavy duty nylon and is quite "tight" across the frame when assembled, but it is quite noisy when moving around on it.
All are under £50
I got all three from MASH camping in Gloucester.
Wingstoo
We have a couple of the Dutch army ones, sourced from Endicotts at £30 a pair.
They are heavy and initially a real pain to put up and take down, but putting up is easy now that I have learnt the trick to make sure the sockets for the legs are in the right place before trying to put the legs in, and taking down is easy now that I have learnt to lay the beds down flat and upside down, put my feet on the horizontal rods and pull the legs out with two hands.
They seem wider and longer than the British army canvas ones I used to have and don't seem to tip over in the same way.
However, this in itself is a problem and the slight extra length (2.1m) makes them tricky to fit into some inner tents, which are often 2m long, as is our new tent !!
We have made a sleeve of canvas(underside) and wool blanket (upper side) that slips over the ends of the bed, to hold it in place, and the sleeve holds a Fat Airic for insulation. After 50 years of camping this arrangement has given me the best nights of sleep I have ever had, and my wife, for the first time ever, is now sleeping while camping.
We don't find them noisy, but the legs can make squeaky noises if the socket/leg connection is dry. A tiny bit of oil seems to solve this.
I did look at the cot style, but found the height of them made them impossible to fit into tents with sloping walls without using up too much floor space.
Graham
They are heavy and initially a real pain to put up and take down, but putting up is easy now that I have learnt the trick to make sure the sockets for the legs are in the right place before trying to put the legs in, and taking down is easy now that I have learnt to lay the beds down flat and upside down, put my feet on the horizontal rods and pull the legs out with two hands.
They seem wider and longer than the British army canvas ones I used to have and don't seem to tip over in the same way.
However, this in itself is a problem and the slight extra length (2.1m) makes them tricky to fit into some inner tents, which are often 2m long, as is our new tent !!
We have made a sleeve of canvas(underside) and wool blanket (upper side) that slips over the ends of the bed, to hold it in place, and the sleeve holds a Fat Airic for insulation. After 50 years of camping this arrangement has given me the best nights of sleep I have ever had, and my wife, for the first time ever, is now sleeping while camping.
We don't find them noisy, but the legs can make squeaky noises if the socket/leg connection is dry. A tiny bit of oil seems to solve this.
I did look at the cot style, but found the height of them made them impossible to fit into tents with sloping walls without using up too much floor space.
Graham
i've just picked one up in the blacks closing down sale, similar to the british army ones, with the sprung wire legs, only tried it in the house but seems long enough and wide enough, best of all it was only £6 brand new
i used one of these a while ago - not so bad and cheap
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...801&langId=-1&searchTerms=3407129&Submit=GO+>
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...801&langId=-1&searchTerms=3407129&Submit=GO+>
