Well we used the tent this week....but only stayed in it for one night. Our first night there were horrendous gales and driving rain. To be fair to the tent it stood up really well to the weather, there was only a slight leak in the living area where we left a UFO light against the tent wall. Unfortunately neither me or DH slept a wink because of the roar of the wind and the expectation we may have to get up at any moment and hold the tent down.
The good news is the tent is sturdy and waterproof.
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I've just bought one too. I can't put up our main tent on my own and I wanted a tent that we could use for weekends or so I could take the kids away for a week on my own. I've put it up twice on my own with no problems at all, and very little reference to the instructions. It's a steel and fibre glass pole system with short colour coded fibre glass poles for the roof section. These then slot into stell poles with angled tops that form the vertical walls (as my daughter put it, it looks a bit like a bug when you're putting it up. Once all the poles are assembled you just crawl under the fly sheet and lift it up. You then just slot the legs onto the pins, peg out and attach the inners. The bed pod has a SIG but the living area has a partial SIG i.e it's only sewn in at 2 points and only covers the living space and doesn't extend under the bed pods. I have to say that you do get what you pay for and the construction/design isn't quite as sharp as the big brands put you're getting a big tent for £80. I'll be sleeping in ours tomorrow with my daughter and 5 of her friends so I really hope it's as water tight as Pocoyo said. Oooh, one interesteing feature I've not seen before is that the inside is silvered presumably to try and improve heat retention.
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I got this tent last year but only managed to sleep in it twice due to people deciding they dont like camping.
Going away with the tent this Friday and really looking forward to using it. I would like to know how you managed to get up by yourself. I tried a few times last year in the back garden and when i used it but never managed to get the poles in correctly. any suggestions would be helpful,
There may be some small changes but from the pics it looks identical.
It was a good, hardy tent that withstood 4 years being camped on a totally unsheltered site in Cornwall. It took a huge beating each year from the winds.
I finally retired it last year when one of the steel poles snapped. (In hindsight I wish I had kept her and found a pole to fit. She was one hell of a tent for the money, we paid £99 and it was branded Pro Action obviously, being from Argos.
Things that I found over the years:
The guy lines AND runners are libel to snap, swo get spares.
Don't hang too much weight from inner hooks as they pull the seam weld away at those points. That was the ONLY time it ever leaked a few drops and that was our fault!
Get a couple of Clingons for the rear as, unless they have changed the design, the outer tent will touch the inner if being hit by wind in that direction. A clingon attached to the flysheet in the offending area cured that.
I used Delta Pegs on all guy lines, love them.
You could also take some spare fibreglass poles, but we NEVER had one break in 4 years.
Many happy memories of that tent, and guyed down good it will stand up to horrendous weather. [/IMG]
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this was our very first tent in 2005. lovely tent. got it from argos. had to send it back though and get a refund after only 2 outings. the zips on the doors broke. 2 poles bent and pole sheath stitching came undone and we had no wind either. love the set up in this one though would have been better sig throughout. the bedrooms opened up into 1 big one. thats brought back memories! had 2 great holidays in it..
my OH used to be able to do it by himself. from what i remember we used to put the five flexi poles through first, then one by one, starting at the front ones, then back ones, put the steel poles in. then the ring pins, then fasten the tent to the poles and finally when youve pulled it straight, peg it out.
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Yep, and crucially, don't forget to slacken of the webbing at the plastic "elbow" joints at the top of the steel poles. Very, very difficult getting the poles in otherwise.
Must confess that getting the ring/pin into the steel poles was always a struggle with this tent.
Strong fingers (and patience) required.
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Summer Solstice wild camp.
Chilled in a Field, July.
Crantock, August. Fouth year with the fantastic Quechua Base Seconds 4.2!
..... and the odd night wild camping in my Argos 1 man tent...
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Our first night there were horrendous gales and driving rain. To be fair to the tent it stood up really well to the weather, there was only a slight leak in the living area where we left a UFO light against the tent wall. Unfortunately neither me or DH slept a wink because of the roar of the wind and the expectation we may have to get up at any moment and hold the tent down.
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