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DavidW
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Hello to the Bushcraftuk group,
My name is David and I live in the USA in the state of W.Va. in the central eastern part of the country.
I found my way to this site several months ago while searching for information about one pole tipi type shelters. The Moskoselkatan or Tentipi in particular. I was looking for an alternative to the Kifaru as I did not want the condensation of the synethic fabric , did not need the light weight and there were other reasons I was looking for an alternative design. Along the way I found several other lavvu type tents but concentrated upon the tentipi mostly because I could find out the most information about that model in a language I could read. I have been lurking here off and on for several months also enjoying the many other topics covered here. Lately I've been mining the list for information about fire pistons and khukuri knives. The fire pistons I only recently heard about and a friend of many years , a submarine shipmate from many years ago , got interested in khukuris over the past year and gave me one as a gift this past June during our annual visit .
I wanted to say thanks for all the information about the tentipi provided here and on your sister site , Song of the Paddle. I ordered a Varrie 7 cp from Caspar at Nordic Outdoor week before last , recieved it early this past week. I've not had time to camp out in it yet but have errected it twice to try to get the hang of how it goes up and gets folded and packed away. Saturday I set it up in the yard , left it up over night and spent a few hours in it Saturday evening after the temperature dropped , we've had heavy frost each night for the last several days, with a Heat Pal 1500. To see how well it heated , to see if I had any condensations problems ( only a little along the bottom part) and to see if I did myself in with carbon monoxide. I have a major Boy Scout outing early next month with my son, and have no desire to end up in the news with a head line about family and son's friend found warm and dead at scout camp. :-( . I am however thinking strongly about getting a battery powered CO monitor after finding some on-line web sites with studies about CO concentrations in tents, I've located a couple of models at aeromedix.
BTW- when asked about the price , I only say to friends who ask that it is my "Five to Ten Year Jim Carney tent." And leave it at that . Meaning it will take five to ten years to work up the willingness and the cash to buy it and Jim is a friend of 20 years, who tows a trailer to all the motorcycle ralleys he/we attend. When I ask why go to the bother of towing a trailer he says it is to bring along a big tent becasue he is to old and fat to put his pants on laying down in small tent . So I am planning ahead ,
I also wanted to say thanks by passing along some links to other sites I have found interesting and thought you might find them interesting too.
First a one pole tipi type shelter I found after I ordered the Tentipi. An interesting design from Germany. I never turned up the Firetent system web site on this list in my searches here but perhaps I just missed it. They describe it as a modular system , as it is constructed of several parts which can be used seperately or assembled together to make a lavvu . Also I am wondering if anyone is familar with this tent model and has used them ? Impressions ?
http://www.scandia-tents.com/index.html
http://www.scandia-tents.com/english-start.htm
This web page show how the Firetent system Khota is constructed out of 4 TST tarps + 1 RST ( rain tarp) , or alternatively - you can use just one or two of the TST tarps to make tents called half-boat or boat for 1-2 or 2-4 people. The half-boat shelter is similar to a type I have seen referred to on reinactment sites as a type used in pioneer days where a jib sail was made into an open faced on shore tent. Anyway , it certainly offers many options for use and if being backpacked it offers and easy way to divide the weight amonst the hikers, in a four man group each carries one fourth of the total weight.
http://www.scandia-tents.com/english-techdata.htm
For some different pictures see this german language introduction page, the main site has links to four languages.
http://www.scandia-tents.com/deutsch-start.htm
Another one pole tipi from Florida , which I found earlier but also never found mentioned here in my shelter searches here on this list, but again perhaps I just missed finding it.
http://www.eztipi.com/
Lastly , I wanted to pass along links to two other web sites which I have found have interesting information. - perhaps they are pages already known here but I never searched for them. Hope you find the information interesting and usefull too if you've not seen them before.
http://www.wildwoodsurvival.com/index.html
http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_content.php
Anyway, you folks have a great site/forum here with a lot of great information and I am glad I found it.
Best regards,
David
My name is David and I live in the USA in the state of W.Va. in the central eastern part of the country.
I found my way to this site several months ago while searching for information about one pole tipi type shelters. The Moskoselkatan or Tentipi in particular. I was looking for an alternative to the Kifaru as I did not want the condensation of the synethic fabric , did not need the light weight and there were other reasons I was looking for an alternative design. Along the way I found several other lavvu type tents but concentrated upon the tentipi mostly because I could find out the most information about that model in a language I could read. I have been lurking here off and on for several months also enjoying the many other topics covered here. Lately I've been mining the list for information about fire pistons and khukuri knives. The fire pistons I only recently heard about and a friend of many years , a submarine shipmate from many years ago , got interested in khukuris over the past year and gave me one as a gift this past June during our annual visit .
I wanted to say thanks for all the information about the tentipi provided here and on your sister site , Song of the Paddle. I ordered a Varrie 7 cp from Caspar at Nordic Outdoor week before last , recieved it early this past week. I've not had time to camp out in it yet but have errected it twice to try to get the hang of how it goes up and gets folded and packed away. Saturday I set it up in the yard , left it up over night and spent a few hours in it Saturday evening after the temperature dropped , we've had heavy frost each night for the last several days, with a Heat Pal 1500. To see how well it heated , to see if I had any condensations problems ( only a little along the bottom part) and to see if I did myself in with carbon monoxide. I have a major Boy Scout outing early next month with my son, and have no desire to end up in the news with a head line about family and son's friend found warm and dead at scout camp. :-( . I am however thinking strongly about getting a battery powered CO monitor after finding some on-line web sites with studies about CO concentrations in tents, I've located a couple of models at aeromedix.
BTW- when asked about the price , I only say to friends who ask that it is my "Five to Ten Year Jim Carney tent." And leave it at that . Meaning it will take five to ten years to work up the willingness and the cash to buy it and Jim is a friend of 20 years, who tows a trailer to all the motorcycle ralleys he/we attend. When I ask why go to the bother of towing a trailer he says it is to bring along a big tent becasue he is to old and fat to put his pants on laying down in small tent . So I am planning ahead ,
I also wanted to say thanks by passing along some links to other sites I have found interesting and thought you might find them interesting too.
First a one pole tipi type shelter I found after I ordered the Tentipi. An interesting design from Germany. I never turned up the Firetent system web site on this list in my searches here but perhaps I just missed it. They describe it as a modular system , as it is constructed of several parts which can be used seperately or assembled together to make a lavvu . Also I am wondering if anyone is familar with this tent model and has used them ? Impressions ?
http://www.scandia-tents.com/index.html
http://www.scandia-tents.com/english-start.htm
This web page show how the Firetent system Khota is constructed out of 4 TST tarps + 1 RST ( rain tarp) , or alternatively - you can use just one or two of the TST tarps to make tents called half-boat or boat for 1-2 or 2-4 people. The half-boat shelter is similar to a type I have seen referred to on reinactment sites as a type used in pioneer days where a jib sail was made into an open faced on shore tent. Anyway , it certainly offers many options for use and if being backpacked it offers and easy way to divide the weight amonst the hikers, in a four man group each carries one fourth of the total weight.
http://www.scandia-tents.com/english-techdata.htm
For some different pictures see this german language introduction page, the main site has links to four languages.
http://www.scandia-tents.com/deutsch-start.htm
Another one pole tipi from Florida , which I found earlier but also never found mentioned here in my shelter searches here on this list, but again perhaps I just missed finding it.
http://www.eztipi.com/
Lastly , I wanted to pass along links to two other web sites which I have found have interesting information. - perhaps they are pages already known here but I never searched for them. Hope you find the information interesting and usefull too if you've not seen them before.
http://www.wildwoodsurvival.com/index.html
http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_content.php
Anyway, you folks have a great site/forum here with a lot of great information and I am glad I found it.
Best regards,
David
