Wall Tent Accessories

[RustyNail]

I have recently purchased a 12x14 Montana canvas wall tent (and wood stove). I was wondering what accessories or items you bring or have that make elk camp or even camping in general easier?

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[Boss .300 winmag]

Lots in this thread.

https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,177613.0.html

[ghosthunter]

I found with three wall tents that many of the tent company accessories are over priced and can be duplicated in some other way.

One of the best items I bought was a large tool box on wheels for each tent. Inside the box is every small thing you need to set the tent up and a wood stove.
Also if you are going to be with a partner. You need two hammers.

Items in each box are any tools I need, lanterns , ropes, steaks,ground cloth, angles, stake puller, coat hangers.

Each stove has  in it nesting pipe , spark arrestor, cap, hatchet, legs ,fire extinguisher, hot mitt, torch, fire starter couple chunks of wood. Everything you need for first fire.

I also found the following useful.

Every ridge angle has a carabiner that stay on it.
Carabiners for all eve loops.
A shoe organizer from dollar store hanging on rail by each cot.
All poles and angles marked with colored electrical tape to mark their spot in frame. This really helps when you have helpers who have never set up before.
Peppermint oil on cotton balls around outside keeps mice away.

[RustyNail]

I found with three wall tents that many of the tent company accessories are over priced and can be duplicated in some other way.

One of the best items I bought was a large tool box on wheels for each tent. Inside the box is every small thing you need to set the tent up and a wood stove.
Also if you are going to be with a partner. You need two hammers.

Items in each box are any tools I need, lanterns , ropes, steaks,ground cloth, angles, stake puller, coat hangers.

Each stove has  in it nesting pipe , spark arrestor, cap, hatchet, legs ,fire extinguisher, hot mitt, torch, fire starter couple chunks of wood. Everything you need for first fire.

I also found the following useful.

Every ridge angle has a carabiner that stay on it.
Carabiners for all eve loops.
A shoe organizer from dollar store hanging on rail by each cot.
All poles and angles marked with colored electrical tape to mark their spot in frame. This really helps when you have helpers who have never set up before.
Peppermint oil on cotton balls around outside keeps mice away.

Thank you. Do you treat your canvas every year after season? What's the best way to keep the canvas in goof shape?

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[ghosthunter]

I found with three wall tents that many of the tent company accessories are over priced and can be duplicated in some other way.

One of the best items I bought was a large tool box on wheels for each tent. Inside the box is every small thing you need to set the tent up and a wood stove.
Also if you are going to be with a partner. You need two hammers.

Items in each box are any tools I need, lanterns , ropes, steaks,ground cloth, angles, stake puller, coat hangers.

Each stove has  in it nesting pipe , spark arrestor, cap, hatchet, legs ,fire extinguisher, hot mitt, torch, fire starter couple chunks of wood. Everything you need for first fire.

I also found the following useful.

Every ridge angle has a carabiner that stay on it.
Carabiners for all eve loops.
A shoe organizer from dollar store hanging on rail by each cot.
All poles and angles marked with colored electrical tape to mark their spot in frame. This really helps when you have helpers who have never set up before.
Peppermint oil on cotton balls around outside keeps mice away.

Thank you. Do you treat your canvas every year after season? What's the best way to keep the canvas in goof shape?

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I have never treated canvas and I am in five years now.
Set new tent up, spray down with water while staked down and on frame.
Allow to completely dry.

All mine repellent.
But I also alway put a fly over them. Mainly to keep as clean as possible and to channel water out away from them. Water dripping down from outside in dirt makes a heck of splatter mess. Easier to keep clean than to clean after the fact.

[Rainier10]

I have never treated my bravo tent. Had it for 15 years now. Always use a snow fly. Never had a leak.

[Gamblin Guy]

I'm not quite in the same league as ghosthunter when it comes to tents, I only have two.     As for accessories, I built wooden boxes for storage and transport, one for the frames that doubles as a nightstand against the back wall and the one for the tent, carpet, tarps that doubles as a cribbage table or dry food storage and keeps the mice and chipmunks from getting into food guys bring up in grocery bags.  I use mine mostly for archery season here in WA so no use for a wood stove and set up depends on how many people i have in camp. 

Metal coat hangers and a pair of pliers make custom hangers for all kinds of things, coats, lanterns, hats, bows etc. 

I've been accused more than once of "glamping" when it comes to my set up, but no one complain after 5 or 6 days.

[ghosthunter]

Nice set up.
We have a separate cook shack so never cooked in a tent. We had all Coleman lanterns but every year someone would break a globe.
So we went to battery and experimenting with solar in cook shack.

[Gamblin Guy]

Here's a different angle so you can see the box at the end of the tent with a propane heater on it, the box to the right has a propane oven on top of it.  I went back to white gas lanterns and a stove when the propane froze up on is in Montana one winter.  There's just something about the sound and smell of a Coleman white gas lantern burning in wall tent that cant be beat. 

This tent is a 12x16 Centennial Tent from Rainier Industries, I took it back to them and had them put a zipper on the door after one year in Montana with 40+ mph winds and snow, made a big difference.  Ghosthunter, like you I set mine up every summer in the yard and hit them with the pressure washer to clean and let them stretch out.  Every once in a while i'll throw the cot in it if i want a really good night sleep.  I've never treated it and it looks as like new even though its close to 20 years old.

Typically in archery camp we will have a seperate cookshack set up also, just depends on the year.

[birddogdad]

have 2 MC wall tents.. have run for 20+ years.. biggest thing is post season DRYING and STORAGE.. they will last for ever that way... as far as equipment:

generators - my pops is our "camp boss" 80's and stays pretty close to camp, runs power, security ect...   
wall tent for cooking separate but pass thru to sleeping qtrs.
nice multi burner stove, griddle ect... we have added a pizza oven that sits on top they work great
i run string LED lighting with wall outlets for charging for each bunk..  power backbone setup works great.
good stove, still with wood here but eyeing a pellet setup now
have a standup fan to circulate stove hot air for drying cloths works great.
hanger rack for cloths also look into ice hangers, work great on the tent poles
cover floor
i put a tarp over exterior roof helps with sweating
i like the wall hanging racks to put your stuff on
gear goes in waterproof totes under cot - may need to cut rounds to put cot legs on to make this work i also run a bunk cot that is overflow and i can put my stuff spread out on top bunk, extra if someone shows to sleep on too.

i bring an enclosed motorcycle trailer to hold all the lose gear, drags, saws, extras ect... pretty handy to bring the kitchen sink for any "what if's"
have when available , rented a porta poty that is camp dropped and maintained by company..

on the exterior of tent - my tarp is wide enough to extend out of one side like an awning ** put your outside stuff under this area*** this is a huge lesson learned being gone all day hunting in a snow storm and then trying to gather all the spread out stuff that was buried while i was out!

hope there is an idea or two you may have not considered here! good luck

[Rugergunsite308]

One of the best things i have done for elk camps is using RYOBI 18v accessories all around the camp. I already have a bunch of Ryobi tools for work, so using them in elk camp makes sense. I spent 7 Days straight in elk camp last year and turned the generator on once to charge some batteries even though i didn't need to. With a battery inverter I charge my phone and garmin as well as run string lights through cook area and tent. Also, garmins (at least the older 650's and 700's) charge really slow, so being able to leave it charging over night off a battery instead of a generator is awesome. Finally, its just epic having ryobi tools in camp. Chainsaw for cutting firewood, sawsall for butchering critters, worklights for processing deer or getting stuff out of the truck, impact for changing blown tires, tire inflator/airmattress blower for tires, airmattress, and blowing out the tent. The options are endless. Just walk through the tool isle at home depot and think, would I use that at elk camp?

On a different note, the double decker cots by disc-o-bed are legit. Used them for the the last 4 seasons and they are a game changer. comfy, sturdy, and give you so much more room in your tent. 9/10. Only bummer is they are freaking heavy and take a little longer to set up than a normal cot.

[bigdub257]

On a different note, the double decker cots by disc-o-bed are legit. Used them for the the last 4 seasons and they are a game changer. comfy, sturdy, and give you so much more room in your tent. 9/10. Only bummer is they are freaking heavy and take a little longer to set up than a normal cot.
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Agree totally - They are a game changer!

[RustyNail]

Well the guy I was buying the canvas wall tent from backed out on me. If anyone has a wall tent they would like to trade lmk. I have some toys that are for Montana or Idaho residents only since WA wanted to ban them...

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