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David Ellis Canvas Products 387 County Road 234 Durango, CO 81301 970/259-2050 www.cowboycamp.net
The advanced feature designed into Range Tent is way canvas is cut, creating a para-wing design where it is connected to floor. This upward arc keeps canvas from touching wet ground and eliminates need for center staking. The seam here is double sewn, not simply bound, and this allows water to flow over, not into seam.
Dave makes three sizes: 8’ square & 7’ tall; 10’ square & 8’ tall; and 12’ square & 9’ tall. The 10’ range tent is most common and ecominical.
With D-rings attached on three walls, you can increase inside space by pulling out walls. The door is zippered shut with a #10 nylon coil zipper that is concealed with a 2.5” weather flap. Snap hooks are sewn into inside to hang a lantern. This tent looks really cool lit up at night.
Range Tent Awning —
Get Range Tent Awning add-on. The awning makes it so you can have door open while it is raining. The top of add-on awning scoops over top of Range Tent exposing nylon loop. At bottom, bungee loops secure awning to front tent stakes. There is a 5’ pole that lifts awning over door of tent and is guyed out to front.
Bedrolls —
Bedrolls are cowboy suitcase. When “Buckwheat” gathered up his worldly possessions and tied them to a stick in a canvas table cloth, he was conceptualizing a cowboy bedroll. If there ever was a useful tool in wilderness it would be a sheet of canvas. The military’s version focuses more on sleeping and less on tarping, unless we're talking about tarping while sleeping through a rain storm.
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