Alright, we're gonna go over a few helpful tips of how to set up the
Megahorn Teepee with Stove Jack. First thing you're gonna do is lay out all six
corners and locate the webbing straps, that have
the tension buckles on them, and then we're gonna place the first four stakes on the
corner, one right there, one right there, of both doors. So a total of four stakes.
The stakes should be placed with about an inch on the tag end from the buckle,
and the webbing should fall the seam of the tent. After the first four stakes are in
place, you're gonna build the pole, and in the last section has all these little
holes, you're gonna place it on the bottom hole; for a level ground. The rest
of the holes are for snow pits or uneven ground. Alright, we placed the first
four stakes in and then we want to make sure that we don't over tension the four
corners yet, because it'll make the remaining two stakes points lopsided. A
really nice tip is, when you look up here the webbing that holds the structure
together at the top, I want to make sure that all four are even, if you look up
and you can see one is lopsided and pulling too tight over the other four,
that means you need to move your stake and balance out the tent.
Okay, we've added the other two stakes, now the total of six, and now we're going to
go around and make any micro adjustments, so when you look at the tent panels,
there should be no loose fabric, so that means that I either have to tension a
buckle or I need to move the stake left to right slightly, to tighten up every
panel equally, so I'm going to do that now,
and then I'm gonna place on a 360 vent cap at the top, and that just attaches
with bungees on these little points here that you see right there. Alright, now
structurally I am done, all the remaining guy outs, halfway up at the mid panel and
then down at the base those are not necessary to pitch this tent, those are
just intended for light wind, snow loads and it's to stabilize it in heavy rain
or etc. You should never pull over pull those out, because structurally it's not
intended for that, and then back up to the cap, see just hooks on with little
hooks all the way around. Now in high wind or if you want to keep heat inside
the shelter in extreme low temperatures, you can cross this bungee and that
bungee over and kind of envelope one of the panels of the hood, and that'll close
it. So I'm gonna do that real quick and show you. Okay, this is what it looks like
with the vent hood sealed up, like I said this would be keep heat inside or if
you're in super high wind and you want to completely batten down the hatches,
this is how you get it done. Alright, taking one last look and then like I
said before, that these guy out points are not meant to take a great amount of
stress, they're just to take light tension on this panel to help out with
stability, and the same one goes for the mid panel tie out, it just gets light
tension that way you don't mess up the shape of the teepee by pulling it, like if
you think about it like a empty balloon, if you start pulling it too wide it
starts to flatten out the center, so it's important that the six main
stake points take all the tension, and then the remaining guy outs, just take
light tension, so now you're ready to add a wood stove or an inner tent of your
choice. Inside in this particular model has a UV coating on the inside to help
retain heat and to help in extreme temperatures. So I hope this helped. Make
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Have a good one!