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Just had a chance to read posts from ADL, Val B, Dedley etc. Do you know, you guys are so right! Bearing in mind the state of my good lady at the time I never even thought about that. We had about 10 people stood around offering their help.

When I got back to the tent I simply pulled the hoops back up and guyed them. I never even thought about checking the horizontal poles.

Quote: Originally posted by 2gocampin on 18/5/2010

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Im a tad confused here, you say its a BL6 you have ? and I take it that you used the Deltas on the main storm guys ? as you cant use Deltas on the rear tension straps at the base of the canvas so I take it you had V or standard pegs in these ?

With the BL pitched fully with the horizontal bracing bars down each side and the poles and tension straps all pegged out a BL will stand alone without guys except the canopy ?????

Once the bracing bars are extended and locked in place it is impossible for the tent to collapse even if the rear guys are removed !!

Now don't get me wrong and like everyone else has said I feel sorry that someone has stooped so low as to steal your Deltas but somehow this story just doesn't add up in my books. 

 

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What a thing to do, some people have no conscience at all. Really does make you think how low some people will go, to not think twice about how they might ruin someones holiday which may be their only holiday.

Last year when we was camping at York House in Lower Hesker near Whitby. My OH left a designer top at the toilets in the morning before we went out for the day. He didn't realise it was missing until the evening when we got back when it dropped cold and he couldn't find it.

When he visited the toilets some kind person had hung it up on the door and it had been there all day, we couldn't believe it. Just goes to show that there are good people out there.

Quote: Originally posted by TuckersLuck on 18/5/2010

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Just had a chance to read posts from ADL, Val B, Dedley etc. Do you know, you guys are so right! Bearing in mind the state of my good lady at the time I never even thought about that. We had about 10 people stood around offering their help.

When I got back to the tent I simply pulled the hoops back up and guyed them. I never even thought about checking the horizontal poles.

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So your horizontal poles were pinched too?

But the bracing poles would have needed to have been removed or at the very least slackened off and each end removed from the eyelets to allow the vertical poles to fold back as the bracing bar would lock against each pole even if loose and stop it from collapsing.

Im with HardyLardy on this thread I recon its little green space men

Yep reading it again ADL it does now seem that the bracing bars have been stolen too !!! ...sniff sniff ....I can definitely smell something funny ?

So what actually happened here ?

Why would someone make this up ?

I think we all need to get a grip here and step back and look at the situation and not get hung up with worry about the apparent insecurity of campsites.

How many of us have actually had anything stolen or know anyone who has ? Ok I am sure there will be a small handful of people who sadly have had things stolen but that percentage I am sure will be very very low in comparison.

Lets not all start worrying about the safety of our kit and lets keep the faith in other campers to continue to look out for each other and to maintain what we have out there, a way that we can all escape life's stresses, a place where we can all trust each other and not have to worry.

God forbid the day that campsites are patrolled by security staff as a result of unnecessary panic. Lets not get caught up in overkill of the situation like we do with health and safety issues and the EU laws that govern us all to death.

Keep it real and lets all continue to enjoy our pastime without the fear of apparent tent thieves.