Tor Magnusson wrote:Magnus, that tent and bed are just too cool... I would love to have digs like that.. to me, that is one of the things that make this whole hobby so much fun..
Do you have other pictures and plans for the bed? I would love to see what it looks like without the mattress and fabric. Please?
Once I started working up the "plans" after the fact from when we made the bed for Magnus and Hannah. Let me see if I can find them tonight.
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Violante de la Fuentes wrote:Ok, quick question for the people with the big wood camp beds - how much space do those take to transport, and how long do they take to put together? (Did you buy them or make them? And what do you use as a mattress?)
OK. I lied. Not quick questions at all.
Here is/was mine (sold it, need to make another)
1x12 uprights, 3/4" plywood head and foot board, 2x8 side rails, 2x4 slats, 1/2" plywood floor. It will hold a full size futton or mattress and it held well over 600pnds of people on it at one time with no problem.
It would fit in the bed of my truck, or the floor of a mini van or yukon, but passenger cars are right out. Took me about 10-15 min to put together. I made this bed.
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fulls size bed assembled
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bed broken down -- 6ft spear in pic for scale.
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Bed with the "floor" missing to show slats.
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Insane Irish
Quote: "Nissan Maxima"
(on Pennsic) I know that movie. It is the 13th warrior. A bunch of guys in armour that doesn't match itself or anybody elses, go on a trip and argue and get drunk and get laid and then fight Tuchux.
Although no known Celtic tents have survived, tent pegs have been found; so we know they existed. Opting for a simple construction for multiple reasons this is what we developed as a "Celtic" tent.
We're currently building another tent identical to this one. The structure is quick and simple to make and set up. With 2 extra poles it can be opened out and that allows us to "double-purpose" them as demo areas during the day.
Gobae wrote:Although no known Celtic tents have survived, tent pegs have been found; so we know they existed. Opting for a simple construction for multiple reasons this is what we developed as a "Celtic" tent.
Interesting, you got any pictures or links for the pegs?
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I'm planning to go with a Panther with 5' walls in the future. This one served us well this Pennsic, but mildewed BAD.
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Master Terafan (www.greydragon.org) uses a simple bed frame but hangs the canopy and curtains from the roof spokes. I had been inside the tent on about six separate occasions before I realised that the '4-poster' had no uprights.
We were eating at the Gyro place and saw this pavillion. We walked over after we were done and were admiring it from the road when Mistress Sarah invited us in. This is even more spectacular in person than it is in the photos.
Ok, here's all the info that I have on the Celtic tent pegs.
Pagan Celtic Ireland by Barry Raftery page 113
The possibility that tents once existed is raised by the discovery, in association with the Iron Age road at Corlea, of two wooden pegs, once complete, one fragmentary (see fig 63 [below]). The intact example in particular has been carved with great care to produce a rectangular section and flattened top, and has a deep triangular notch at one end and a pronounced barb at the other. In every detail the object is virtually indistinguishable in form from a modern tent-peg. Tent, flimsy and impermanent and made entirely of perishable materials, would normally leave no trace in the archaeological record. So, perhaps at Corlea we have a rare pointer to the former existence of tents.
Just as a further point of reference, Corlea was where a massive wooden plank road was uncovered. Also known as the "Road to God Knows Where" because it just ends/disappears into the bog.
