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Put up my new tent at the weekend with help from the wife and this forum.

It took 3 hours!

An hour was head scratching.

Can any other Diablo 900 owners out there tell me how long it takes them and how long will it take the wife and I to master it.

Thank's

Kent 

It took us about three hours (including the hour head scratchin) first time and to be honest we haven't got an awful lot quicker. OH is a perfectionist and insists on pegging it out himself so with two of you it should be quicker. We have got it down to about one and half to two hours and we certainly don't rush

There will be plenty of people who tell you the can do it in 45 mins but I just don't see how!

Having said that it is a fab tent and wouldn't swap it, me and the kids start unpacking as OH is pegging ( and repegging). so just allow yourself plenty of time and enjoy it -its all part of the fun

Thanks Gillian.

I feel better now.

I can handle an hour and half, now that I know it will go up.

I cant imagine we will ever get below an hour either, I just dont see how it can be done and still get the tent pitched properly.

Happy to be told otherwise though.

Kent

hiya guys, had my diablo 900 for appox 2 yrs now. Not put it up as much as i would like but can usually do it in about 60mins but thats not pegging the ropes out etc!!

its usually me and my 2 kids who put it up with a bit of help from passers by to get the top sheet over the tent!!

With our weather i guess you need to get it up fast!

Another tip is to put a ground sheet underneath the tent so if it does rain the tent stays clean when your packing it away.

Anywhere between 60 and 90 minutes for me. OH and kids bugger off and explore upon arrival leaving muggins to pitch solo, saying that I do get help with the outer sheet.

Due to this timescale, we are currently looking at other smaller tents for weekend stayovers, towards the end of last summer I was pegging out in the dark !!! (Khyam Yale is current front runner).

Diablo (great tent) will be used for long weekends and weeks away.

I would say that it takes us about an hour all in to pitch our Diablo. It is ceratinly a 2 man job and if you dont support the main poles as the dome goes up you seriously run the risk of sanpping a pole or two. You will soon get into a routine when pitching and the real holdup is when pitching the outer. The best way to do this to peg the outer down at one end and then pull it against the wind (inflating it) over the tent. Always use temporary pegging just to set the tent out then fiddle until you are happy with the way the tent is sitting and then peg out properly.

Nigel 

EEEK!

We're going on Friday for our first time with the 900.  3 hours????!!!  That's valuable vodka time wasted!