British Military, Five man Arctic Tent

[Twodogs]

Pick up this critter over the weekend a British Military five man arctic tent ,

Cotton rip-stop outer with a cotton liner the weight quoted for the tent was 40 kilo but no way maybe with the issue pegs , liner and ground sheet I will be surprised if its 20 kilo as it stands ,




Snow valance all round ,



A zipped cover with a mesh cooking vent below, woundnt take a lot to fit a stove jack





High level vents front and rear



More ventilation on the liner doors,



On the liner another mesh to line up with the cooking port ,



loads of hanging lines to dry kit ,



And a hook to hang a lantern as heat for drying kit





Packed


I will change the guys add line locks and pegs and its ready to play .

Twodogs

 

[Goatboy]

That's nice Twodogs, looks in perfect nick too. Were you looking for one or was it an impulse buy? There's lot's of good times away to be had with it.
GB.

 

[MT606]

thats a good looking bit of kit!.....

 

[Karl82]

Nice one mate looks good.

 

[Twodogs]

Cheers Gents
GB yes it was a bit impulse

 

[rik_uk3]

How tall is it Cliff? Any more going?

 

[Twodogs]

Its over six foot standing room Rik

 

[EssexMonk]

Very nice! Shouldnt the sod cloths be folded under?

 

[Andy BB]

found the missing poles then!

Looks really nice. I'm not jealous, not at all.............................

 

[MartinK9]

Nice find Cliff.

 

[rik_uk3]

Very nice! Shouldnt the sod cloths be folded under?

Not sod cloths they are tent snow valance's used to weigh the sides of the tent down with snow/ice/rocks etc in bad weather.

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Looks like a good bit of kit.

 

[vizsla]

Awsome mate iv eyed these up a few times at army surplus, I sometimes use a 2man version in winter, also quite heavy but very well made, cheers

 

[Shewie]

Ooh that's nice, good find

So the smaller arctic tents didn't have stoves, was it just a case of good sleeping bags?

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

I would convert it to fit a stove and waterproof treat it.

 

[sasquatch]

Nice tent Cliff, where were the missing poles? The stove jack would be a great mod, love these old tents

 

[EssexMonk]

Thanks Rik, You learn something new every day , I recon one of these would work well here in winter,

 

[Twodogs]

Yep as far as I know the British Military don't get issued wood burning stoves this tent is stamped 1986 so the issue stove for cooking and snow melting was the colman peck one with its alloy cook kit .
when at rest in the tent the lads would be in the arctic feather and down bag .

Twodogs

 

[jacko1066]

Great find Cliff!!!

Love it!!

 

[The Cumbrian]

Where do you find this stuff Cliff?

The best thing that I've found locally is a single Berghaus Crusader pocket and strap in OG at a local car boot sale.

Woe is me......