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Hi.
Can anyone recommend some poles to accompany the DD 3x3 Tarp that I have just purchased.
Just after what others use, lightweight versus reliable etc.
Regards
Trevor
I tend to cut some young hazel if I'm in a coppiced area, but if resources are short I sometimes carry some Vango steel poles if I'm in the canoe.
There some decent lighter alloy ones on ebay if you search for bivvy poles etc.
I prefer to take longer guys out to trees though if they're available.
MartinK9
12-12-2009, 13:41
Try Wilkinson's extendable washing line poles £2.99 each - double as a walking stick too.
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/5567/jerrycanfirebox6.jpg
i just ordered some bivi/basha poles..50cm closed 95cm open from rvops..atb shogun..
I also have the rvops bivy poles and have found them fine, apparently some have had the twist lock fail, this may have just been that they're not totally squaddie proof or that said squaddies tried to eat them.
http://www.polimil.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000022.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f %2fwww.polimil.co.uk%2f&WD=pole&PN=Camp_Site_Accessories.html% 23aTT083#aTT083
are popular, cheaper and the screw can't fail as easily.
Thanks for all of your replies, coming from a 'camping' background I have always thought of havign the equipment to do the job. Forgetting that when out in the bushcraft, just use what is around and tie it to a tree!
Regards
Trevor
Carbuncle
13-12-2009, 01:27
Try Wilkinson's extendable washing line poles £2.99 each - double as a walking stick too.
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/5567/jerrycanfirebox6.jpg
Bloody hell, that's a setup. It's bigger than my house!
MartinK9
13-12-2009, 01:40
Bloody hell, that's a setup. It's bigger than my house!
No need to rough it :mexwave:
That is a communal area by the way:D
Last weekend, I bought some elastic to re-thread some tent poles I'd raided from a Tesco value tent, to make a flexible pole 4.2 meters long to use corner to corner on a DD tarp. It made a huge living space by bending the centre diagonal through the centre loop on the tarp and planting them in the ground, pegged around 3 corners, and used a busted walking stick proping up the fourth corner. I then just pulled out the tarp and pegged the remaining loops on the ground. It was well enclose and kept the wind and rain off me for two nights. I wish I'd taken pics.