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Subject Topic: Inflatable versus poled pitching race
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PersonCross Camping
15/5/2013 at 12:14pm
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I dont think its all about speed, its about ease, I just find im more inclined to get away for a quick weekend with an inflatable. I think "the weather looks good at the weekend, lets go" and I can put up any tent on my own but even if its a bit windy I have no issues with an inflatable, just peg the corners and im away.
Gary Cross


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Quote: Originally posted by Cross Camping on 15/5/2013
I dont think its all about speed, its about ease, I just find im more inclined to get away for a quick weekend with an inflatable. I think "the weather looks good at the weekend, lets go" and I can put up any tent on my own but even if its a bit windy I have no issues with an inflatable, just peg the corners and im away.
Gary Cross


Yup that's exactly why we bought our Vango Genesis - so that there wouldn't be any reluctance to pop off for a single night because of setting up. Combined it with self-inflating mattresses and sleeping bags instead of all the other duvets etc that we normally lug away for a longer trip and we should have a pretty rapid set-up - assuming that we don't need to use lots of guys every time. Time will tell! As for deflation. From the practice we've done on the Vango it was like taking the bung out of an air bed and went down instantly (there's a you tube clip from BCH camping that shows how quickly it goes down) so sounds a lot quicker than the outwells .. (And unfortunately a better target for mischief makers at night too!) ..again all part of the weekend kit master plan!

A final thought... I was telling someone about this great new tent and they recounted an inflatable tent that they'd had in the sixties which didn't use a hand pump. Instead you had to unscrew one of the spark plugs in your engine and insert an adapter which then piped "air" into the tent tubes!!! (Only it wasn't just air but an air/petrol mixture .. Hmmm!)


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Hmmm, we filled our airbeds up from the Morris Minor engine like this once somewhere in France. I remember racing my Dad to fill up an airbed, me holding the accelerator pedal down a bit and him using a foot pump. I lost.
It was slower even (and a lot smellier) than blowing it up by hand. And we got a lot of strange looks.

Now, when they invent inflatable pegging, everything will be a lot faster and easier.


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15/5/2013 at 2:59pm
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A hammer drill an rock pegs is the answer to fast pegging!

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16/5/2013 at 1:13pm
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Hi
Im sure this Air or Pole debate will go on forever but this might help people decide.

Let the debate beging (or carry on anyway)

Outwell Concorde M Pitching Video

Gary Cross


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Cheers for that Gary

It does look easier than poles and they are proving popular, I couldn't justify the price at the moment after just buying a new large polycotton

I'm also curious to see how robust they are couldnt imagine it would be easy to fix if one got a puncture. I guess I'll be waiting to see how everyone else gets on !


PersonCross Camping
16/5/2013 at 8:32pm
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Hi
A puncture can be fixed easily with some Tear Aid. Easier than a kinked steel pole, not as easy as tape around a split glass fibre poled tent.
Gary Cross


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Regarding using the car engine method of inflation. We had an adaptor back in the sixties that inflated things, but there was no petrol air mix involved. The piston going up and down, worked against a diaphragm, so only fresh air was pumped into the item being inflated. But it was very slow. We used ours to inflate a rubber dinghy tender, but it took so long we changed over to an early version of the electric air pump.

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