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We offer a description of a homemade tent, which we made two years ago and which is serving us for the third season. The tourist house, in our opinion, turned out to be more comfortable than many others, and original enough to acquaint interested readers with its design.

When designing, we proceeded from the following criterion: maximum comfort with a minimum of weight. Since one multi-person tent is lighter than several single-person tents and it is less troublesome to install, its bottom dimensions were chosen to be 2x2 m. Three tourist foam mats are laid out on such an area, four people are accommodated (and with backpacks). Although in the "overload" you can spend the night with five, and even six!

The maximum height of the tent is 1,6 m, which allows you to sit and change clothes freely. We made straight sides (walls) 0,3 m high, so that you can lie down without touching the sloping roof. Increasing or decreasing the height of the tent and sides is not practical, since the former increases weight and the latter reduces comfort.

The shape of the roof is in the form of a pyramid. Such a roof is not very difficult to manufacture, and it requires less material (hence, there will be less weight and cost) than a tent or ordinary gable.

The entrance to the tent is made in the form of a tube. It is simpler and more reliable than a zipper or buttons, and, which is not unimportant, it protects well from insects, which are many in central Russia in the summer. The diameter of the tube is equal to the height of the front wall at the entrance; to the left of it, on the wall, there is a window covered with a fine mesh.

The general view and drawing of the tent are shown in the photograph and in the figure. According to the indicated dimensions, it will not be difficult to perform a scan (pattern).

In the manufacture of the tent, only nylon materials were used, which ensured its high strength, durability (during two years of intensive use there was not a single damage!) And low weight - about two kilograms.

The roof, tube and front wall are made of thin, slightly blown nylon fabric (parachute type).

Pyramid tent (click to enlarge): 1 - entrance tube, 2 - bottom, 3 - roof, 4 - side wall, 5 - front wall, 6 - mesh window, 7 - cord for tightening the tube, 8 - button-pin fasteners for an open tube, 9 - loops (14 pcs.)

Possible schemes for setting up a tent (click to enlarge): 1 - on a central stake, 2 - on poles about 2,5 m long (you can use oars from a kayak), 3 - on a rope stretched between trees

The bottom and sides are made of impregnated nylon of medium thickness and reliably protect the sleepers from wind and rain. We would not recommend using completely waterproof materials for the bottom of the tent. They are good when the room is completely isolated from the rain. However, when water gets inside, the tent turns into a kind of bath.

The fabric was cut with a hot soldering iron with a sharpened tip, giving an even cut without "terry". The blanks were stitched with a linen seam on an ordinary sewing machine with nylon threads. A nylon cord is inserted into the four seams connecting the edges of the roof. It is necessary because the cutting of the blanks goes at an angle to the threads and the fabric stretches a lot.

The top of the roof is sheathed with a reinforcing disk (boat) with a diameter of 15 cm from two layers of fabric. Loops for attaching guy lines of the tent (there are 14 of them in total) are made of nylon cord and sewn to their places through reinforcing pads made of fabric 5x3 cm in size.

The cord is also inserted into the cut of the tube - for tightening it. The simplest devices are sewn on top and sides at the base of the tube, allowing it to be fixed in an open form. They consist of rope loops attached on the inside and small (about 100 mm long) laces with pin buttons on the outside.

An important advantage of our tent is the ease of installation. One person can put it in a time not exceeding five minutes. Only 13 pegs are used: first, the bottom is stretched on four pegs, then the roof is raised in one way or another, and, finally, a vertical position is given to the walls with rope braces, and the roof is evenly stretched along all edges.

Last but not least, in case of rain, a waterproof awning is thrown over the tent. As an awning, we usually use a large piece of polyethylene film.

Authors: K.Belevich, A.Gorbachev

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