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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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