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<blockquote data-quote="jmden" data-source="post: 183462" data-attributes="member: 1742"><p>I do. I just didn't care for a tent without a floor and open to the bugs and no adjustable ventilation at the top, so I came up with my own design and built it. I built a smaller one last year with a 'snap in' floor, but figured out a way this year to have an integral floor with the added benefit of making it bug free. An integral floor in these things cannot be 'rigidly' attached like tent floors are in most tents. So this design has the tent floor 'floating' via a flexible 12" high no-see-um wall. Kinda hard to explain. You can click on the pictures and it'll take you to the host website where you can look at different resolutions and maybe see what I'm talking about. The actual floor material folds up a couple of three inches (some mods since pics where taken to help edge of floor material stand up better all around) or so before it's sewn into the no-see-um to form the 'wall' of the floor...sorry, probably just confusing the issue. It was also a bit of a challenge to design this floor system around a door style that is a radical departure from the Kifaru design and the design I did last year. So, I've basically built two prototypes, more or less. Last years' tent was really just for one person with cold weather hunting gear at 8' dia. by 5' 6" tall and weighing just over 4lbs. I'd light that stove and be down to my 'polypro tighties' in no time pressing as much of my bare skin against the tent wall to get away from the stove as I could in mid-teens weather. You have to fire this stove hot to get it to boil water in a decent amount of time, then just damper it down to make it reasonable inside. The tents have not been terribly tested but have worked well for elk hunting the past couple of years. Single wall tents like these really benefit from the stove to keep down condensation. </p><p> </p><p>Stove is just a Kifaru Parastove with extra long chimney to fit the height of the tipi.</p><p> </p><p>My wife had about had it with tents by the time I was done...<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmden, post: 183462, member: 1742"] I do. I just didn't care for a tent without a floor and open to the bugs and no adjustable ventilation at the top, so I came up with my own design and built it. I built a smaller one last year with a 'snap in' floor, but figured out a way this year to have an integral floor with the added benefit of making it bug free. An integral floor in these things cannot be 'rigidly' attached like tent floors are in most tents. So this design has the tent floor 'floating' via a flexible 12" high no-see-um wall. Kinda hard to explain. You can click on the pictures and it'll take you to the host website where you can look at different resolutions and maybe see what I'm talking about. The actual floor material folds up a couple of three inches (some mods since pics where taken to help edge of floor material stand up better all around) or so before it's sewn into the no-see-um to form the 'wall' of the floor...sorry, probably just confusing the issue. It was also a bit of a challenge to design this floor system around a door style that is a radical departure from the Kifaru design and the design I did last year. So, I've basically built two prototypes, more or less. Last years' tent was really just for one person with cold weather hunting gear at 8' dia. by 5' 6" tall and weighing just over 4lbs. I'd light that stove and be down to my 'polypro tighties' in no time pressing as much of my bare skin against the tent wall to get away from the stove as I could in mid-teens weather. You have to fire this stove hot to get it to boil water in a decent amount of time, then just damper it down to make it reasonable inside. The tents have not been terribly tested but have worked well for elk hunting the past couple of years. Single wall tents like these really benefit from the stove to keep down condensation. Stove is just a Kifaru Parastove with extra long chimney to fit the height of the tipi. My wife had about had it with tents by the time I was done...:rolleyes: [/QUOTE]
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