It's really not bad. Much easier as I am over six foot tall, if my wife had to setup on her own she would struggle, she can handle the weight but being short would be tough for her, but I'm confident she could do it, would just take a little longer.
Same here, I love this tent, cool thing is if you buy a Ozark trail movie screen it attaches to the pipes inside and with a Pico Projector you now have movie time lol
Great video thanks for taking the time, just upgraded to one of these from smaller 2 and 4 person teepee style hot tents, have not set it up yet. I think the trade off for a long setup is the quality of living a tall straight walled tent affords, esp on longer camps. I have spent over an hour trying to drive the 18 plus stakes in frozen ground with my 4 man tent, and without stakes in the ground a teepee tent doesn't work at all..... and when you do get it up you are constantly hunched over except the very center.
Welcome! Yeah being 6-4 I can't stand being in tents where I can't stand up all the way. The 45 minute setup isn't bad...as you said it's the price you pay for being in a really spacious and comfy tent!
@@michaelbilliter9716 Frame is holding up fine for me. Couple of my poles got a bit muddy one time and now those two poles are a bit of a pain to get together with the connectors but overall fine. I have never endured serious snowfall with it but I have had some serious wind and it held up fine. The 20x10 would be too big for what I need but I imagine a hunting crew of four or five guys it would be amazing. I'm trying to order a stove next week so I can get back up to camp and get some work done. More videos to come in a couple weeks!
The internal frame poles have colored tape as a means of figuring out where they go. The tape wears off easily, so I spray painted the ends to keep them all straight. The frame isn't very strong and I had to pay a welding shop to repair some of my brackets when they broke.
Some of my poles have worn off the colored tape just a little but not so much that I can't see it. Hopefully I will be building the cabin in the next six months and I won't need to use the tent anymore, but we will probably build a second deck higher up the mountain to do a second camp to rent out and we will probably need to paint the poles at that point.
I just snatched up a Spare on Black Friday for under 300 from the local walmart !!!.... great deal and the money I saved will pay for a decent tent stove to go with it !!!!
Hey can you do me a favor when you get it in can you measure the carrying case it comes in for me? I'm trying to verify the case size and I won't go up to camp for another two weeks.
I use a guide gear wood hot tent stove in mine brother, there like 150 bux on Amazon and it heats up the north fork tent really good, things big enough for 4 logs at a time and you're not a slave to the woodstove all night long
@@WeShootBack1776 I have considered the guide gear stove...but I think I am going to order one from northwoods fabrication. My little buddy heater had trouble keeping up last weekend so I definitely need a bigger heater and I have all the wood I'll ever need to burn!
I had one for 2 years,,, then we got a real wet heavy snow and the roof poles bent in and completely destroyed the frame. I would suggest putting in two center poles from the roof poles to the ground for more strength against heavy snow. I wish I would have thought of making a couple center poles before my first tent was destroyed!
I haven’t been up in the snow. I’ve heard of other people doing just that, making some sort of support for the center roof poles. If I were going to leave it up for an extended period of time I would do the same. I had a guy message me and said he measured all the poles and built his own frame from electrical conduit. With this tent on sale right now for $250…even if you spent $200 to make a new stronger frame you’re still under the previous price of $500 and barely over the price I got it for for $400.
Love mine, it's pretty frustrating at first putting it together by yourself but it's definitely worth it afterwards, just the instructions on the bag suck , and putting it together in the winter is a bit harder than on a wooden platform and be careful with the floor, I dropped a log on it December and the floor got sliced open. But I don't know why everyone has an issue with the floor, it's a hot tent, not to many bugs in the middle of winter ❄️ lol
It would have held up great if it weren't for the mice!!! Mice got into my deck box and ate holes in the tent! I have patches to fix it, next time I go up to camp I will make a video on that. Oh I was so damn mad!!! Aside from the mice eating holes in it, it had held up great. My only other issue has been a little bit of mold, but again that is my fault and nobody else's, two trips in a row while packing up to leave it has been lightly sprinkling, nothing I can do about it, but the deck doesn't get a ton of sun so it's almost like it never dries out and the deck box being enclosed same problem. But really, aside from those two issues, no fault of the tent manufacturer, it has really held up great.
Think I answered your question on the other video for this tent. I would be really interested to see how it holds up to that abuse but it may be a gamble spending $500.
Yes sir the tent stands up just fine to high winds, I've been using this same tent all season, used it at the beginning of the year in the Moab for a overland trip and all the way up here in Pennsylvania where we are at currently in the same tent , we had 55mph gusts last night and blowing snow and this baby doesn't even really move in the snow and wind ice , it holds up to it all . Only issue I've had is the floor when I go to pack it up in the cold , it's super stiff and like everything sticks to it .
Ran across one of these used for sale but what is the real weight of one of these. I see what is on the website but hopefully it's lighter than what it's listed as for my use
Nope...it is legit 90 pounds. The floor alone is the biggest weight, the floor has to be at least 40 pounds. I keep mine on site in a deck box so I have only transported it one time to the site and it has not moved since. The bag does have wheels, and if you have two people it's not awful to carry.
The platform was built in two sections, first section is 12x12 (tent is 12 feet long and 10 feet wide) and then the additional section is 12 wide x 8 feet deep which gives us the additional seating area where the fire pit is.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching. It is not natural canvas it is synthetic canvas, if you have a pair of ripstop pants from 5.11 or columbia or under armor, it's kind of like that material. I have another video I am putting up in a couple weeks that goes over some details about the floor and walls. Overall, still a great tent for the money, it has worked well for me and I love it.
