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Hi am new to the forum, i have just got a Ultimate Equipment Hobo tent it is an A pole model, can anyone tell me anymore about these tents?

cheers Shortdaze

Do a search on outdoorsmagic.com  There is a lengthy thread on ultimate equipment tents there:

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Welcome BTW!!

  On looking at the tent in more detail a label says TRAMP 1 its a very simalar design to a pheonix phantom i used to have.

Some of the machinists names who made the tent are debs rebeca and susan.

does anyone know roughly how old the tent is its dark green flysheet and brown inner tent and in excellent condition 100% original.

cheers mick.

The Ultimate Tramp 1 is most definitely a wee bit earlier than 2001 in my opinion!

I bought mine in 1983 (and still use it for backpacking!) just after Ultimate had introduced their much lauded Peapod tent, which was the first ever tunnel tent (and which had to be pitched very taught otherwise the middle sagged onto you).

Anyway, because of this, production of the Tramp was ending at that time, and consequently the remaining stocks were on offer at knockdown prices, I got mine for £69, which was a good price then (before the days of cheap Chinese tents).

Whenever I used to see any Tramps 1 or 2 on camp sites they were always pitched wrongly. The front guy line is meant to be passed up and through the ring that joins the two A poles before pegging it out, and not simply stretched out from where it is attached to the flysheet.

Over the years my brown inner tent has become rather saggy, which I have partially remedied by shortening the elastics where the top of inner hooks onto the inside of the flysheet, and where it hooks on at the sides. Incidentally the instructions stated that you should leave the side guy lines slack until after the sides of the inner have been hooked onto the flysheet, though to be honest I can't see that it makes much difference.

The main problem I've had with it has been that the groundsheet doesn't stay watertight, I'm now on my 3rd one, which I think is near the end of its life. Apart from that, perhaps my flysheet is beginning to wear out, as I've had to seal a few little pinholes in it in the last 2 years.