Just had a chance to read posts from ADL, Val B, Dedley etc. Do you know, you guys are so right! Bearing in mind the state of my good lady at the time I never even thought about that. We had about 10 people stood around offering their help.
When I got back to the tent I simply pulled the hoops back up and guyed them. I never even thought about checking the horizontal poles.
Quote: Originally posted by 2gocampin on 18/5/2010
Im a tad confused here, you say its a BL6 you have ? and I take it that you used the Deltas on the main storm guys ? as you cant use Deltas on the rear tension straps at the base of the canvas so I take it you had V or standard pegs in these ?
With the BL pitched fully with the horizontal bracing bars down each side and the poles and tension straps all pegged out a BL will stand alone without guys except the canopy ?????
Once the bracing bars are extended and locked in place it is impossible for the tent to collapse even if the rear guys are removed !!
Now don't get me wrong and like everyone else has said I feel sorry that someone has stooped so low as to steal your Deltas but somehow this story just doesn't add up in my books.
I'm reading the thread and thinking Mmmmmmmmm as well!!
My first thought was 'well, how would it collapse like that'
I've had the SV8 up not guyed at all (in the garden to air off) and even in a slight breeze it stood upright - the BL4 similarly (though I did delta the guys down as we were working on it and it was pitched for a while)
Quite bizzare what can happen these days, very few camping folk are even aware of Delta's and I would imagine even less so the person who did this, so I doubt the motive was to steal your Delta's, but what the motive was is quite difficult to fathom, as most thieves would at least empty the tent of anyting worth having first, maybe they were after your tent itself, who knows?.
What a thing to do, some people have no conscience at all. Really does make you think how low some people will go, to not think twice about how they might ruin someones holiday which may be their only holiday.
Last year when we was camping at York House in Lower Hesker near Whitby. My OH left a designer top at the toilets in the morning before we went out for the day. He didn't realise it was missing until the evening when we got back when it dropped cold and he couldn't find it.
When he visited the toilets some kind person had hung it up on the door and it had been there all day, we couldn't believe it. Just goes to show that there are good people out there.
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Quote: Originally posted by TuckersLuck on 18/5/2010
Just had a chance to read posts from ADL, Val B, Dedley etc. Do you know, you guys are so right! Bearing in mind the state of my good lady at the time I never even thought about that. We had about 10 people stood around offering their help.
When I got back to the tent I simply pulled the hoops back up and guyed them. I never even thought about checking the horizontal poles.
But the bracing poles would have needed to have been removed or at the very least slackened off and each end removed from the eyelets to allow the vertical poles to fold back as the bracing bar would lock against each pole even if loose and stop it from collapsing.
Im with HardyLardy on this thread I recon its little green space men
Yep reading it again ADL it does now seem that the bracing bars have been stolen too !!! ...sniff sniff ....I can definitely smell something funny ?
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it's mad having pegs pinched. i mean how petty do people get to go as far as to steal pegs!
but after reading all the posts the horizontal poles may have been pinched too?
maybe a plan to steal your tent was foiled. i mean it's not common, but not that unusual either for caravans to get stolen these days. maybe now they're moving on to tents, and of course the only way to see what tent they're stealing is when it's errected.
how secure was the campsite you were on? i may be going a but far but what if you were targeted by someone outside of the site, stealing to order? and we all know that decent tents don't come cheap.
it makes me to think that absolutely nothing is safe these days. but that doesn't mean we should live in fear of course!
But if they were attempting to steal the tent, why would they not empty it first?
who would try to steal a tent that was full of equipment , beds and bedding , stove , kitchen stand etc , without removing them first , it just doesnt make sense.
if they collapsed the tent , on top of all the stuff , how on earth could they then move it with all the stuff inside.
a BL is not something that will roll up easily anyawy , you'd need a fair amount of time to do it, or a big van to just chuck the lot into unfolded, but you'd still have to remove the poles as well.
10 people offering to help after the event, but nobody saw the pegs being removed .
Just weird ?
I think we all need to get a grip here and step back and look at the situation and not get hung up with worry about the apparent insecurity of campsites.
How many of us have actually had anything stolen or know anyone who has ? Ok I am sure there will be a small handful of people who sadly have had things stolen but that percentage I am sure will be very very low in comparison.
Lets not all start worrying about the safety of our kit and lets keep the faith in other campers to continue to look out for each other and to maintain what we have out there, a way that we can all escape life's stresses, a place where we can all trust each other and not have to worry.
God forbid the day that campsites are patrolled by security staff as a result of unnecessary panic. Lets not get caught up in overkill of the situation like we do with health and safety issues and the EU laws that govern us all to death.
Keep it real and lets all continue to enjoy our pastime without the fear of apparent tent thieves.
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to think that absolutely nothing is safe these days. but that doesn't mean we should live in fear of course!
