Upgraded Kodiak Canvas

[92xj]

Top center in red circle

[SkookumHntr]

Thats really nice! Thanks for sharing that!

[Odell]

Tell me more about the tent stakes and the adjustable pole for the awning. I have this same tent.

[bracer40]

92, I'm not sure what the adjustable brush pole is made from, but I found that an extendable painters pole works well too. Lightweight and will fit in the pole bag too.

[92xj]

Tell me more about the tent stakes and the adjustable pole for the awning. I have this same tent.

The pole is just an extendable pole that a car wash brush head would screw on to or a painter pole like bracer mentioned, nothing fancy just something to hold the awning up to clear head space and to keep rain from pooling.

The stakes are awesome. I knew I needed heavy duty ones when I camped in a snopark parking area that was very large gravel. Driving the factory ones in worked about 50% of the time and bent them pretty good. The stakes I bought can be driven into anything including asphalt. Take a look at their website, they make some great quality stuff. They also supply our military with their stake needs around the world.

[calib]

92xj
Liked the details of your experiences. Glad i found this thread, i have been wondering for a while if the flew bow would take a stove. I am planning to buy a 10x14 in the next month or two and will have to look in to getting this done to it. How much room does all your camping set up take in a truck bed

[92xj]

92xj
Liked the details of your experiences. Glad i found this thread, i have been wondering for a while if the flew bow would take a stove. I am planning to buy a 10x14 in the next month or two and will have to look in to getting this done to it. How much room does all your camping set up take in a truck bed

Space in the bed of the truck, I have no idea.  When we go camping 4 dogs get the bed of the truck, with the smallest being 65ish pounds.  I will put a small stack of firewood back there with them.
I put all the camping gear inside the cab.  I drive a crewcab Titan and fold the rear seat up.  The tent folds into a 20"x20"x10ish bag and the poles are 4 feet long by 6"  with them in their bag.  The wood stove fits back there along with the coleman 3 burner cooking stove, our two camp chairs, air mattress or cot and bed roll depending on who is going.  Clothes bags, boots, and everything else we take.  When I am going on a hunting trip without the pups and family, camping stuff still goes in the cab and the bed gets the coolers, stands, bow target, etc.  If I packed all my stuff in the bed of the truck, which is only 5'8" I believe, I would say it would take up 50% of the width, and only go up to the bed rail. 
Next Friday the truck will be packed with all our stuff for a 3 day adventure, I will take some pics of it packed and post them, so you can get a better visual of the space.  For what I have and take I am very pleased with the space it takes up.  I tried to take as much as possible to make it as nice and pleasant a camping trip I can for the family.  I don't want them to have a crapola experience ever so I make sure that doesn't happen with all the junk I take.

[calib]

Perfect. I run a crew f150 plenty of room. Cant wait to get this tent and get out.  How did your trip go?

[92xj]

It was good and I went again and totally forgot to take packed truck pictures. With a crew cab and no one in the backseat ( if your need is full of other stuff) your banking great will fit. If your bed is open you're really golden. The tent and everything included takes up the space of a pillow that doesn't compress and the pole bag is a four for cylinder shape about the size of a tripod folded up. Very small for what you get.

[ghosthunter]

Now that I have it installed and got experience with it, I wouldn't of needed to install one.  I fired up the stove as hot as I could get it for an hour and kept feeling the hearth, heat shield and the door.  The hearth underneath got a little warm but never even close to hot, the door and its wall was room temperature and the heat shield never got hot,  Could touch it and hold my hand as long as I please.  Do I think it's needed, not at all. But, I will keep it on there because in my uneducated heat transfer head I feel that in the morning after a 9 hour burn with the Idaho logs, the little heat they are producing the heat shield is throwing back my way over the stove.  Whether that happens or not, I don't know, but I felt like it helped in the mornings.

So I have decided on a three dog for my canvas wall tent.
I am interested in the Hearth.  Now that you have used the stove. Could you just get by with the pan alone?

[ghosthunter]

What is  Bish's tender quick?

[92xj]

What is  Bish's tender quick?

Bish tear mender. Fabric, canvas glue. Freaking amazing stuff.

If I wrote bishs tender quick my brain was not connected to my fingers when I was typing.

[tjthebest]

Tagging this thread.

I was looking for people that actually put stoves in these tents and never found anything. This is perfect reassurance for me.

[ghosthunter]

Started a new thread. Just ordered a wood stove.

[92xj]

Snowtrekker company's makes a hearth that fits inside an oil drip pan. That's what I used and you can see in the pictures. No dirt to deal with and no smell to it. Its just a piece of fabric and rolls up like a poster.