these are so luxurious an awesome low-cost way
to be not just mobile but really have a wonderful and comfortable setup
when you are traveling around or if you choose to live in a more mobile structure as a life way
very excited to be introducing you to the newest member of the buckskin revolution team which is
my new wall tent from spring bar this is a very unique design of wall tent so a lot of folks are
used to that kind of classic military style wall tent that you would see at civil war reenactments
or all kinds of you know wilderness camping situations hunting camps that kind of thing
these are really unique in that they have the poles with them and the poles themselves provide
the tension to hold the tent up so they're great in wind because they have kind of rounded corners
they give you much more workable space inside than the classic kind of a frame or you know
classic peaked house style looking tent because almost the entire thing is the full height so a
lot more workable space and they're easy to put up by oneself which is a real benefit for me because
i travel around with these so often and teach also expecting the sucker to be in my bedroom as well
as my teaching headquarters they're also really compatible with wood stoves and set up to be able
to use wood stoves really really awesome design i've worked for years with the competitor to this
guy cody at canvas and i started having leaks in that tent really early on these are the folks
that actually created this design and this is a way better built tent so i am very excited to be
leveling up and so i'm gonna walk you through the setup and show you all of the lovely features of
this awesome tent couldn't be more excited and you're gonna be seeing this in a lot more of my
videos i'm going to be doing a lot of teaching out of this sucker all right let's get it set up first
thing is to spread out the tent and then we're going to stake it down because it is the tension
between those stakes into the ground and the poles lifting the tent that provide the framework and
the structure for the tent and may i introduce my handsome assistant taylor donovan helping me today
hello
nice plastic bathtub floor all right
wanna do a warm up and throw that back and forth a few times oh yeah probably
it's kind of heavy i know
and that camera probably needs to be adjusted it can only be adjusted so
much because that's the one that's stuck in permanent three times zoom so that's the one
now can only take detailed photos and this doesn't feel like all right
steaks and what have you okay
okay
that's right there okay
so the liability of my old tent which was from the kodiak canvas camp company was that when it
was set up the seams at the floor actually would be pried open a little bit by the tension of
popping the top up and it would actually pry the stitches apart and have them facing up to
the sky so it didn't leak from the ceiling or the other seams but water just poured in
through the floor seams so i'm very very pleased with this system which is a nice strong cord
into the seam and then it's metal poles that are not putting tension on the seam so my seam
is nothing exposed from the outside and it's going to be facing down instead of facing up so
i'm already sold on this system and it was one of the things
that i noticed about this right away and was super super pleased to see all right so once
the tent is laid out on the ground where we want it then the first step is driving in the
stakes
i usually start with the corners and make sure that i get the corners all
square 90 degrees and then i go around and fill in and they need to be in really well because it is
the tension basically it is these stakes that are holding tension between this and
the sealing pole so super important and you always want to put your stakes in
at an angle because that way when they're under tension the tension of the tent itself
isn't going to be pulling them up so i'm going to be driving them at an angle towards the tent
not straight down way easier for them to get pulled up if they're straight down
so once i've got two sides done then i'm going to give a good tug
to the corner that's exactly opposite just to make sure that i've got all the corners square
when i'm around to the final one it should be evenly tensioned from both sides yeah
all right looks
beautiful
all right so now the tent is staked out and now it is time for
the poles seriously like such an amazing system setting up a standard wall tent
with heaps of big wooden poles 14 foot length ridge poles it's a four person job this one
one person job more pleasant and lovely with two but you can do it by yourself if you need
so part of what the spring bar refers to is the spring tension that is used to keep this tent up
so we've got two uprights that fit into a tension mount system that holds the ceiling taut so
there's going to be two spring bars on each end of each side and then a bar that goes between those
keeping those pushed apart from one another so that's creating that tension and then the
uprights holding the whole thing up so super sweet system spring bars so one of these in each side
and these fit into a little sleeve on the ceiling
jana just put it in with the rubber side out little rubber tip and
all right and now it's time for the tensioning bar
okay so the spring bars fit into this little t of the tensioning bar these fit in
that
and then i like to just spread them out
as uncreased as possible inside
and then you want to do one actually up close just showing how this fits in
maybe from like above
if that makes sense until they're both up against this piece here okay and now comes the magic
so now these poles fit together here's where the tension part comes in
okay and now this sleeve comes here
locks into place and holds that tension and now i've got these spring bars holding the
whole ceiling top so i just kind of work out any creases make sure it's all nice and flat
evenly distributed along those spring bars
so now it's time for the uprights all right so now fitting the uprights into the top tension pole
like that
and then using them to leverage up the ceiling okay
there we go so this seated right on that metal the metal stake loop with a little
piece of canvas to hold this up and then the second one is going to actually make it a tent
little insider tip you always want to have at least one door open
because otherwise it can't expand because it's a vacuum in there and it has to be able to
slurp air in in order to fully expand to full tent size assemble this smallest
spot shortest not sure why you would ever need it taller
than this i don't know why they need to be adjustable heights
there so this is slick just to have this more secure this little system just cinches the tent
down to the upright on this side and this is the side that has the window that can zip out so that
the stove jack can go in here and because the chimney is going to be passed here and you're
going to be using this for some support for the chimney that's why it's more secure and actually
tied in to the tent structure itself sweet system all right and there we have it that was not long
i could check the camera to see how much time has elapsed 24 minutes 24 minutes two people the only
part that taylor helped with really was driving a couple of the stakes so probably i could have
done this in half an hour easy on my own check it out i like this yeah you got all these stuff
yeah lots of cross draft
gear loft lots of nice storage compartments lovely windows and a spot to
roll the window up nicely yeah look at that then you can watch the marmots from in here
there's the door so much ventilation
wow
okay and then two stakes for each of the awning poles
so we're going to want to see about where we want that pole to be you
always want your awning pole at an angle it's really nice that they're adjustable
because that way you can adjust your angle so if it's raining you want your awning to be
down a little bit so it doesn't collect a bunch if it's the middle of the day having as much
shade as possible is nice so it's always going to be more stable with a little bit of an angle
two awning poles with a loop that just fits over the top of each so i want to drive my
stake at about a 45 degree angle to the pole so if i was to draw a line
from the pole to the tent then about 45 degrees out from that line drive again at an angle
and then this handy dandy little toggle is my tensioner just a simple piece of wood with
two holes in it so when it's not under tension this slides up and down when it's under tension
it catches taut so you could do the same thing with just some cordage and a taut line hitch
but this is really easy to do that without needing knots and we'll do the other one
the fly uprights about 70 degree angle or so and then 45 degree to the stake state 45 degrees out
and i really like the little grommets here so the steak isn't putting tension on the rope
all right there we go so i can adjust the angles of the poles to the tent
the angles of the stakes and the angles that the uprights are to one another to get this
exactly how i want so if i was in a lot of wind or a lot of rain then i could adjust them accordingly
check out the lovely commodious accommodations in there this is going to be awesome i've been
working in gatherings in a 10 by 10 wall tent that is a little bit awkward because it's been
leaking from the floor seams and i can't fit all of my students in at one time if it's really cold
or if it's raining some people have to sit under the awning under their own umbrellas
it's very inconvenient so this tent is going to be able to take an entire class of
buckskin sewing or any of my talks or lectures at gatherings it's very
exciting