http://www.blockaderunner.com/Catalog/catpg31.htm
*EDIT* - Price Breakdown:
Large Wall Tent: $339.95
Sod Cloth: $89.95
Ground Cloth: $89.95
Large Wall Setup (includes stakes, ropes, ridge sleeve, and wood poles): $119.95
Canvas Tent Bag: $24.95
Shipping: $50.00
TOTAL: $714.75
This past Gulf Wars was the first time I had the chance to use it.
I got the Large Wall Tent (10'x12', 4' side walls), with the Sod Cloth, and the Ground Cloth, along with the canvas bag to hold the tent, and the "Set Up Kit" for the Large Wall, which included Wooden Poles, Ropes, Rope Adjusters, Stakes, and the Ridge Pole Sleeve.
Here is my setup from Gulf Wars (tent on the left):
REVIEW:
Tent: High quality construction, with well sewn seams, reinforcements where needed, etc. Tent was waterproof for the one rain we had. Breathed well. Was easy to unfold and setup. Sod cloth was great for helping keep out the chill winds that came at night. I can *highly* suggest this tent for anyone looking for a Wall Tent. I cannot stress enough how much the 4' side walls helped, as compared to a normal 3' side wall on most normal Wall Tents. I easily was able to put my King Sized Viking Slat Bed in it, with room at the front end for two chairs, and room on the side to walk past, and have a small side table there.
Stakes: Simple, but well made steel 12" stakes. Did what they were supposed to do.
Ropes and adjusters: Again, simple but well made, the wooden adjusters even look good.
Ridge Pole Sleeve: As seen here (http://www.blockaderunner.com/images/eb11.gif), this thing is awesome. I liked it so well, I just bought another one from them so I can use it for the shade fly I want to make. Comes with the bolts / wing nuts.
...so...all of the above stuff is getting *GREAT* review points from me. Now...onto the ugly...
Wooden Poles: While the tents, stakes, and ropes were made by top quality folks, apparently their wooden poles were made by half blinded, drunken woodchucks.
All they did was buy the cheapest 2x4s they could find, rip them down the middle to make 2x2s (but not even bothering to find the center...just "close enough" apparently, since some are way wider than others), drill a hole in one end, and set in the steel pins. For the ridge pole, they just took a 2x4, drilled a hole in each end, and then cut it diagonally in the middle where the Ridge Pole Sleeve goes. None of it was sanded, edged, etc. The ink from where the wood was stamped at the lumberyard was still on most of them, and the price tag sticker on the ends of the boards were still on...
Of the 10 side wall poles, 7 of them are so badly warped and/or twisted that I'm either going to have to run them through a planer, or just flat out make new ones to replace them with. I tried running them through my router table to round off the edges, and on over half of them, they are so warped, the router bit couldn't even reach the wood where it bowed up so much.
POLE MEASUREMENTS:
Wall Poles: 47-7/8"
Ridge Support: 86-3/16"
Ridge Beam: 144-1/2"
There's no way *I* would have ever let these out of the shop, had I been the merchant. It is just embarrassing. The only reason I bought the pole setup from them was because I knew I'd not have time to make them myself before Gulf Wars (was building my trailer). Wish I'd had the time...
Here are two photos I just went out to the garage and took snaps of, sitting next to my metal strait edge ruler:
...so...overall review: I can highly suggest their tents, sleeves, stakes, and ropes. Stay FAR away from their wooden poles though.
**EDIT** Forgot to mention that one of the wall poles had a knot that fell out of it, about 1" up from the bottom, big enough to lay my thumb in. And one of the ridge support poles has a huge knot / crack in it that I filled with wood glue to make sure it didn't snap from the stress. Not cool in my book...
