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Subject Topic: Khyam Aspen - erecting the tent Post Reply Post New Topic
08/8/2010 at 9:11pm
 Location: Derby
 Outfit: Khyam Aspen tent
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Hi everyone,

We have just returned from a very good holiday to the isle of wright in our khyam aspen tent.

We have always had frame tents and this was our first experence of this style of tent (5 section tunnel tent with steel pools).

Once we had threaded the poles we had a shock at how heavy it was to lift and struggled to get the tent erected, is there a easy way of doing this.

We would be very grateful of any hints and tips you may have.

Thank you for reading.



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08/8/2010 at 9:46pm
 Location: bedfordshire
 Outfit: abi herald jubilee
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Did you put all the poles in first and try to erect the tent. That's what we did first time and found it was too heavy as well. We now do it this way and its a lot easier. We put a couple of pegs in the ground sheet at the back only to start with. Then what we do is put the rear poles in and stand this up and then put a couple of guys out to hold this up. We then put the next pole in and erect and then the next one etc. Just a simple case of "walking the separate sections along to take up any slack and then peg everything out. Its easier doing than writing it down.lol.

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08/8/2010 at 10:27pm
 Location: Derby
 Outfit: Khyam Aspen tent
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Hi Dean,

Many thanks for your reply, we are going to put the tent up your easy way next time.lol

We did thread all the poles first and it was almost impossible to lift especially when you are tired after a long drive.

Never mind we supplied the entertainment for the day on the camp site lol.

Kind regards

Evonne



02/9/2010 at 6:04pm
 Location: Rochdale Lancashire
 Outfit: Khyam XXL Ranger & Aspen PT Cruiser
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Wew do it exactly as Dean described too, we tried to do it with all poles threaded when we test fired the tent but it weighs a ton ! Peg your back two corners, thread the rear most poles and then guy it with the two main rear guylines. Thread the rest one at a time and then "walk" it out from rear to front to tighten it up and then peg your front main guys and the front corners. We're just dreading dropping ours either in the rain or when the tent is wet, we've nowhere to dry a dancehall like an Aspen !

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