Old tent..?
What would you make out of an old tent? I have one I haven't used in a long while and figured I should put it to good use. Any ideas?
What material?
Stuff sacks, rain skirt, framed pack, ground cloth, bivy.
Oh, sorry:
The canopy is 30d silicon nylon
the floor is 70d silicon nylon
I also have plenty of 20d no-see-um netting that is part of the tent
The zippers do not work and are M.I.A.
Wow - If it is sylnylon, it can't be that old...LOL I was thinking 60'-70's......
.....Someday, like many others who joined WB in the early years, I may dry up and dissapear....
Lol, no it's not that old. I let my cousin use it and he melted one side.So now I just have materials..
+1 on the stuff sacks and rain skirt. A nice sized sack to hold your sleeping bag. Food bag. Small rock bag that holds your bear bag line (or bear bag line bag that holds a rock for tossing the line).Originally Posted by leaftye
Pack cover. Rain mittens.
I can never have too many stuff sacks
Maybe you can cut the melted part out and sew in a piece of new material.
Hummm, the possibilities... I'd be making new stuff sacks. Cause I need more badly.
Some people are wizards with homemade gear and sewing machines, and they get satisfaction out of making cuben stuff sacks and ripstop pack covers. It's probably a good idea to recycle old tent parts like the shock cord in the poles or any zippers that might be usable, but generally when a tent is finished I discard it with Full Honors, and don't look back. Well, I DO look back and remember fondly the old ones, but they're gone and it's off to the next.
Stuff sacks come to mind first for me too. Other possibilities would be pack cover; snake skins for a tarp or if you hammock; the floor could be a future footprint or spare ground cloth. The rain skirt idea is good too.
Get creative and then take pictures!
Was this a two person tent that only half it melted, Sound as if you might have a one person tarptent if you cut the bad half off. If it was a dome tent just add a sleeve over the top instead Rainbow tent!
Was this a Dome tent that only half of it burnt. I thinking instant tarptent- Rainbow style!
Other idea's simple Tarp w/ bug netting ( 30d) & homemade pack ( 70 d)
I used an old tent fly cut up for a small ground cloth and a sit pad-vestibule floor.
Open for other uses.
Two things I NEVER lend out, my tent or my chainsaw.Lol, no it's not that old. I let my cousin use it and he melted one side.
Try gaiters using an existing pair for a template.
I'd try to repair it...fill in the holes with no seeum netting and reseal the rain fly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wARB3Ljv404
Give the poles to somebody on here if they are still good before you trash em.
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You're from Austria?
We have the exact same saying here.
Or, one might even go as far as: "I'd rather lend my wife than my chainsaw".
As for the broken tent, I'd save the poles for somebody who had his poles broken (seems to happen quite frequently), and sew lightweight gaiters out of the floor material.
After most stuff is used up for other creative tasks, I'd keep patches of each material for future fixes of the new tent.
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