My son borrowed the Tinker when he went camping with the ATC a few years ago, he had it up before the others had their dome tents out of the bag. They were amazed.
------------- Bernie
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Thanks for all that input,I have just come back from a few days backpacking on the Cumbria Way, wild camping in my Tinker,mine is the Green Version.......I will now try and put up some pictures of the Tinker in action....... watch this Space
Thanks to you all and to Bernie 47 for the pics
Here are a few pictures loaded on flicker,the weather was fine so no need for the fly .......a great tent that I do not no to much about,I was hoping to use this as a light weight winter shelter on ski tours in Norway,mind you It will be getting well tested before hand.
I am fed up with wet nylon!!!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_cotgrave/sets/72157621858066999/show/
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My first tent was the green Tinker Tent. It is still in the attic, along with my Bergan and my Primus Stove that all goes into a little tin. My mummy sleeping bag is up there also. You can still see almost every breakfast that was cooked and eaten before I would get out of that bag to get dressed.
My father made me an A frame so that the tent hung instead of having an internal pole.
I've used it snow and ice climbing in Glen Etive, Glencoe and the Cairngorms in winter. Would stand up to any weather conditions.
After I got married we used it when we walked the West Highland Way. Now that was what you called "cosy camping"
Och you have brought back many happy memories and perhaps nowadays we eat off tables and sit on chairs in our standing room, SIG, mamouth tents that have to be lugged about in cars, but the basics are all still there.
I have just added some more classic tent pics,this time of the Good Companions Standard....... with the single pole and Angle Pole set up,another great tent.
I have also have a "Good Companions Minor',with a Itsa fly sheet.....I believe the Itsa was the earlier model of the Good Companions Models....... again any input would be appreciated.
Was the Good Companions classed as four season???.
Regards Tim
Quote: Originally posted by Teletim on 09/8/2009
Was the Good Companions classed as four season???.
In those days a tent was a tent, there was no such thing as seasonal classification. You just bought a tent that would suit your needs and reproofed it when necessary.
I have just posted my Tinker on eBay with a reserve of £50.
I've also taken the liberty of using a couple of pictures of Teletim's from this forum. I hope you don't mind, but they were excellent photos and a lot easier than having to erect mine for the purpose!
- Dusty
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I have recently been given, as a keepsake, a Blacks Tinker tent of the 60s vintage. The tent belonged to a dear departed friend of many years standing. We had many camping adventures in both summer and winter.
I would like to pitch the tent, no doubt the canvas will be ripe, but no matter. There is a complete? set of aluminium poles but I can't work-out the correct assembly. Is there another veteran camper out there who could offer any advise please.
I bought my Tinker at Blacks in Auchinleck Square in Birmingham in July 1966, with a Blacks Icelandic bag and 100 feet of climbing rope. The tent is still waterproof but at 8lb (although the lightest in 1966) it us twice the weight of my 1986 Phreeranger. It coped with the floods in central Europe that year and with gale force winds in NW Scotland when my kids were teenagers in the 1980s in wet central France with Diana's daughters in the 2000s. My son used in it N Wales several years running in the 2010s, despite the rain. A great buy. The rope was used for garden swings in the 1970s and the bag split ….