Dirt cheap ultra lightweight tent idea
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I thought this was funny!
What it lacks in privacy its makes up for in ingenuity
Knifeman that was hilarious!
Thats 4 or 5 of the commercial size and grade cling wrap rolls. $20 each equals $80-100
You could do a lot better with a few blue tarps and cheaper.
Wow, one spark from that stove, and good by shelter.
Um .... me thinks it was a joke?
The views are spectacular
I want to see how they floor it
I bet they call it the condensation cabin.
LTG - at the end of the hunt, you cut and wrap your elk with pieces of your tent. Do the economics work now?
Glad to help.
I've always been a fan of their dresses, why not?
When I was a practicing forester and cruising timber a lot, I came upon a cabin built in the woods like. That. It was the landowners. They used it for deer camp.
I went in the thing and looked around. It amazed me. They had 2 hand made bunk beds, a kitchen area with a real counter top, a propane stove to cook off of, a propane lantern, a propane heater, a wood stove, and an eating table with chairs.
Aside from the dirt floor, it had every luxury a stick built cabin would have. It was really pretty dang neat.
I asked him about it that evening when I got out of the woods. He said they’d been staying in it for years. And, that it was warm and dry. Wasn’t over a mile or so from his house. But, they would ride quads into it with their supplies when they were hunting out of it.
The biggest difference I see in it versus the OP’s is the size and the cabin I’m referring to, had a lot more Saran Wrap on it. It was off colored too. Due to the many layers and patching that had been done over the years.
"The views are spectacular"
If you haven't' had cataracts, you'll know what it's like.
that bed looks comfy.
My buddy did something similar except he set up a sunshade structure and then shrink wrapped it, slice an opening for the door and they had a place to lounge
The poor man's glass house.
Matt
Preferred by exhibitionists
I have never seen anything like it and I am surprised it was actually used by some!
whatthefoc your comment was funny!
Agree with Paul, that thing is napalm waiting to happen.
I found a neat one in the CO backcountry one year. An A frame with that filament reinforced construction plastic-it was huge, bad ass.
I'm more bothered by the bed :) I slept on a piece of plywood in Russia for 11 days. . . . I thought I was tough, but I ain't :)
Old Proverb: Man who lives in Glad (Saran?) houses should not throw stones.
Thanks for being so transparent with your building plans Don!