Could anyone please recommend a large, strong, wheeled holdall type bag to help carry my extreemly heavy tent to the car. The tent package size is 33 x 78 cm (an outwell carolina L tent with steel poles). The car is quite a long walk to get to and even though separating the tent and poles - still feels very heavy. Wheels is a definate must!
Outwell and vango do them in small medium and large I think. I got the biggest vango one off ebay last year for around £20 and it too a cabanon athenas canvas, inners, pegs, curtains, tarp and annex.
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Special Needs Mum, Overprotective With Serious attitude!
I was actually thinking of a floppy holdall type style with wheels at bottom of of bag with handles on top and to be able to wheel like a wheeled suitcase, but if bag is floppy and not rigid was hoping to squash it into boot of car which always seems to be packed to capacity on camping trips. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a really strong make. Many thanks for your suggestion though.
Our first tent was a 4 man set (Halfords) which we got off ebay and it came in a large canvas bag as you are describing. We now use it to put our Kampa Croyde in and its perfect, really strong. I think we only paid £15 for the 4man tent with sleeping bags and mattresses etc, it was worth that for the bag!
It doesn't have wheels but the snugpak kit monster may be suitable it has shoulder straps so you can carry it on your back which may be more practical than trying to wheel it into camping spots. This video gives you a good idea of the features of the bag
Most of the hold all types have very small wheels, and I should imagine with a heavy tent these would be useless. However a sack truck has large wheels, designed for carrying weights - including over uneven ground. Ours folds up fairly small. It wasn't that expensive and was picked up in the likes of B & Ms.
we have the same problem, out new tent flysheet alone weighs in at 38kg! and the bag has no wheels! have made seperate bags for each set of poles as they collectively weighed 37kg! also with no wheels.
Not sure how to solve the flysheet problem, guess just park as close as possible and lug it!!
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Well as I said it copes with all the canvas, inners, annex etc of a 6 berth cabanon which is approx 42kg with poles so say about 26-30kg for all the material part.
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