Tent Thoughts
I'm posting this here in the General RVing forum rather than the tenting forum because I'd like some input from other RVrs on using a tent for additional sleeping space. For several years we owned a ...
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I am in the same category. Part of what I used to do at a renaissance faire before I bought my TT was to drop a tent into place, which was there for a quarter of the year.
The most exotic I've gotten with tent deploying was to put down a cheap plastic painter's tarp, a real tarp over that, place the tent and rainfly, then anchor a tarp over that. One set of stakes were 18 inches long (made for pet tie-downs.) The reason for this is because the wind can get up to 50-70 miles/hour, and unless a tent is well fastened securely, it would be destroyed. Followed by wind would be rain or ice storms.
I'm quite happy that I just drag my trailer into its spot, level and stabilize it, and call it done. Nothing wrong with tenting it (and it isn't that difficult to get one set up and struck down, provided one is fairly sober), but RV-ing is is nicer.
The most exotic I've gotten with tent deploying was to put down a cheap plastic painter's tarp, a real tarp over that, place the tent and rainfly, then anchor a tarp over that. One set of stakes were 18 inches long (made for pet tie-downs.) The reason for this is because the wind can get up to 50-70 miles/hour, and unless a tent is well fastened securely, it would be destroyed. Followed by wind would be rain or ice storms.
I'm quite happy that I just drag my trailer into its spot, level and stabilize it, and call it done. Nothing wrong with tenting it (and it isn't that difficult to get one set up and struck down, provided one is fairly sober), but RV-ing is is nicer.
