Heads up! Bargain Shelter.

[Nice65]

Good call, many thanks. I bought a couple. If they're not what I want and the seller has run out, I'll put them for sale here first.

I see from the second link it's the same seller, no idea what he's paying per unit, but just into festival season he's going to do really well if he has a lot of stock. Mind you, it's the kind of chuck away supermarket prices that leave festival sites strewn with abandoned tents.

 

[mountainm]

Could these be used as a tarp over a hammock with some minor mods

2m ridge? small hammock.

 

[mountainm]

I saw this t'other day. Very nearly went for one but then thought that I have a few tarps already so why do I need another, especially one that's designed to be used with poles.

Just thread a ridgeline through the pole holes.

 

[Stew]

Just thread a ridgeline through the pole holes.

I was looking for reasons not to buy.

 

[Biker]

Thanks! Just nabbed one. If only for a cover for the motorbike, mice munched a dirty great big hole in the one I had.

 

[Swallow]

You're all :welcome1:

Wonder if they'd cover a vango force ten, if you wanted to be a bit more inconspicuos, or maybe my medina conquest which I dyed in a metal dustbin and made a right pigs ear of it..

No it won't. This is identical to my (1984) Vango Ridge Tent. Most recently in use in May. And I also got one of the Medinas (I think on the same thread as you). This is a fair bit smaller.

In all honesty my Fly Sheet is a bit shot. (so beware it only lasted 30 years )

I was considering using my DD Tarp with the inner tent now, ditching the poles and using a ridgeline instead. But this may change things.

 

[Arvensis]

I got one as a play tent for the kids

Me too! Though it may get some use when out and about for when the heavens open!

 

[Macaroon]

Mine was waiting for me when I got home this afternoon, I put it up on a patch of grass next to the car and it's a good 'un; hardly a mark on it and no smell of bad storage, either, and weighs 500 grammes most of which I think is the pegging rubbers.............

I wish I could get value like that from every fiver I spent

 

[copper_head]

Mine was waiting for me when I got home this afternoon, I put it up on a patch of grass next to the car and it's a good 'un; hardly a mark on it and no smell of bad storage, either, and weighs 500 grammes most of which I think is the pegging rubbers.............

I wish I could get value like that from every fiver I spent

500g!? I'm buying one.

Couple it with one of these (if they ever get stock in) and my walking poles and I've got my self a >1Kg tent for £48 .

 

[Macaroon]

I put it up with six pegs and two walking poles and it's just had forty minutes of a hose on it with some parts having had some fairly high pressure; no sign of any leakage at all!

 

[copper_head]

I put it up with six pegs and two walking poles and it's just had forty minutes of a hose on it with some parts having had some fairly high pressure; no sign of any leakage at all!

Sounds great, just ordered mine!

 

[hiho]

got my dispatch message today, and a tracking number for hermes

 

[Macaroon]

I knew it'd be good when I saw that they'd wrapped it in Waitrose carrier bags for dispatch!

 

[tom.moran]

just ordered one

 

[treadlightly]

All gone now...

 

[copper_head]

All gone now...

Some more here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FESTIVAL-...Goods_Camping_Accessories&hash=item3a91efbe76

 

[dave89]

500g!? I'm buying one.

Couple it with one of these (if they ever get stock in) and my walking poles and I've got my self a >1Kg tent for £48 .

don't know if this is any good to you bud

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FESTIVAL-...ng_Tents_JN&hash=item3a9217c9f9#ht_336wt_1086

 

[sausage100uk]

Mines up in the garden waiting for the rain to come.... these are far lighter than I thought and a lot bigger, I'm thinking might even be good enough for summer hammock tarp with a bit of modification.......

 

[copper_head]

don't know if this is any good to you bud

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FESTIVAL-...ng_Tents_JN&hash=item3a9217c9f9#ht_336wt_1086

Hey thanks for the link, looks good. I wonder what it weighs? Looks like its the complete tent too. Not bad for £30.

 

[tom.moran]

mines going to be for kit store when im sleeping without a tarp and a summer play tent for the kids