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Topic: Tentsmiths Pavilion
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Glen K
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Member # 21
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posted 02-03-2003 07:55 PM
    
About half a year ago, I ordered (and recieved in good time) a round pavilion from Tentsmiths. However, it was not until this past weekend that I was actually able to put it up. This was the first time I had ever put up a medieval pavilion, so I sort of guessed.Let me give some details:
Canvas, w/mudflaps. 13' diameter at the eaves, 16' at the bottom of the walls (so they walls slant). ~10' 7" center pole. NOT of the 'interior hoop' type, but rather dependent on guy ropes around the circumference of the eave to give it shape. According to period illustrations, I thought I would try attaching the ropes to the eaves with the 'crows-foot' method, i.e. having the ropes come from the eaves at their points, join by twos, and then a single rope goes to the stake out from the tent. There are 20 holes in the eave to do this with, so there were 10 main guy ropes going out to stakes, spliting halfway up their length into two ropes. So, I got the top of the tent onto the pole, lifted it up, and proceeded to tie off these guy ropes to stakes, trying to make them go out far enough to basically continue the plane of the cone out to the ground. However, No matter how taught I made them, there was still some significant sag in between some of the couple lines. I made a point of making sure all the ropes were the same length. What puzzles me is that in some places it worked great, but in others I couldn't get it to work no matter what I did. When I put the walls up, it exacerbated the situation. The tent was actually structurally quite sound, but I'd like to make it look a little more taught, snappy, and straight: basically the way the documentation shows them being. So, my question is: Does anyone have any suggestions? I thought about: 1) simply doing away with the crows-foot look and just having each hole have it's own guy rope (for a total of 20); 2) having a three-split instead of a two (this seems, however, like it would make the problem even worse); or, 3) keeping the crows-foot look, but bascially having TWO ropes come out of each hole, meaning in effect that there would still be 20 guy ropes to stake off. A good look, perhaps, but it seems overly and uneccesarily complicated. Any suggestions or reflections on past experience would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Glen
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Jeff Johnson
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posted 02-03-2003 08:47 PM
I've the same tent, or one very similar. Thing is - the period tents seem to have been smaller, taller, and often have an internal hoop or some such to keep the top rigid. Mine has perimeter poles, and I always felt farby using them until one of the guys showed me a period illustration that has what looks very much like perimeter poles. I'd Still rather have a taller tent more closely configured to the typical, but until then, I don't feel too bad with my poles. -------------------- Geoffrey Bourrette
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Woodcrafter
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posted 04-30-2003 01:33 AM
I have a 14' round without crows feet. If you tighten too much, one line will sag somewhat. Ensure the ropes are inline with the seams, and they are roughly the same distance from the centre pole.At night with the dew, or in a rain, it all tightens up and looks great, except the centre pole is bow shaped. You have to lossen off the ropes. Relax and believe the paintings are either artistic impression/license, or the owner was so rich he had many servants to do nothing but adjust ropes all day. Personally I set it up, roughly adjust the ropes and let it sag naturally. -------------------- Woodcrafter
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