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My head is actually about a foot inside the tent. It's an optical illusion, it's so high and peaky, but still just long enough. If I do another, and I probably will, it will be 9' long inside. Probably just do a 10x10 with a grommet hole or something at the proper spot for a pole, and the cut off st...

you can easily sit here and enjoy the day.



I'm waiting for it to rain a bit and see how it does, then weigh it. Should come in just about 2 lbs.

Just one 10x12 tarp, cut like below. Eight foot along the three bottom sides, slightly over 8' long ridge, 1' 3" cut out for the rear pole. Seven foot, 8" along the upright triangle sides. The peak is right at 6', I can't quite stand up inside, but not much stooping. https://i.imgur.com/dxVC1wbl.jpg...

After making my Whelen last year, this summer I decided to use the same skills and make a Forester tent. If you've seen my posts over on BCUSA, there were two tents sold under the Forester name in the early 1900's, Abercrombie and Fitch's Forester and Warren Miller's Forester. Miller came up with th...

LOL!

Welcome Erik!

Glad you got it fixed, now you know why plumbers cost so much!

Welcome Weston!

Here's my opinions: Hatchet, good for splitting up smaller stuff, good for hammering, traditional. Machete, good for splitting up smaller stuff, no worry about grubbing out roots or hitting the dirt, can be dual ground to act like a knife, Tomahawk, good for splitting up smaller stuff, decent hammer...

Hello Seth! Welcome to the fire.