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<blockquote data-quote="ofbandg" data-source="post: 2015571" data-attributes="member: 91402"><p>My friends and I built our own tent and we used variations on it for years in northern British Columbia. We began with portable garages, the kind for sale at any large automotive or hardware store. We shortened the walls to 5 feet and added plywood ends so we could cut doors and put in plexiglass windows. We took old house mats or pieces of carpet to put on the floor. One of the advantages of this system was that size was adjustable. For just two of us it could be 10 x 20, but it was expandable to 10 x 32 if more were going. Usually we threw an extra tarp over the tent to improve warmth because it regularly went well below freezing on these trips and snowstorms weren't unusual, but we were always warm and dry inside. Even though the ends were held on with zip ties it weathered many a wind storm and we used no guy ropes. These were truck camps and we believed in being as comfortable as possible because we usually stayed for weeks. These tents cost much less than the canvass variety and were easier to modify. It took about two hours for two people to completely set up once you got used to the process.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]223722[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ofbandg, post: 2015571, member: 91402"] My friends and I built our own tent and we used variations on it for years in northern British Columbia. We began with portable garages, the kind for sale at any large automotive or hardware store. We shortened the walls to 5 feet and added plywood ends so we could cut doors and put in plexiglass windows. We took old house mats or pieces of carpet to put on the floor. One of the advantages of this system was that size was adjustable. For just two of us it could be 10 x 20, but it was expandable to 10 x 32 if more were going. Usually we threw an extra tarp over the tent to improve warmth because it regularly went well below freezing on these trips and snowstorms weren't unusual, but we were always warm and dry inside. Even though the ends were held on with zip ties it weathered many a wind storm and we used no guy ropes. These were truck camps and we believed in being as comfortable as possible because we usually stayed for weeks. These tents cost much less than the canvass variety and were easier to modify. It took about two hours for two people to completely set up once you got used to the process. [ATTACH type="full"]223722[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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