pleaseeee dnt ignore this question?
Submitted by admin on April 27, 2011 – 8:49 pm29 Comments
fishma asked:
you know if i hire a tent for 8 peple, well i’ve never been camping before but i imagine an 8 man tent would be very heavy. Anyway we will be hiking all day so it would be unfair to make one person carry the enormous tent all by themselves. Is the tent one big things which cant be disassembled so different people can carry parts of it so the weight is distributed? Beacuse we wer originally going to get a 3 man tent and two 2 man tents but we are having trouble deciding who sleeps with who =P x x x x x (first decent answer gets piked as best)
Damn i wish id ignored it now…
tents nowadays are made from very light frabric with cabon fibre poles , so an 8 man tent will not weigh very much. If your worried suggest you nominate someone to carry the tent and split the rest of the supplies (food , pots & pans , toilet equipment etc) between everyone else. You will probably find the one carrying the tent have the lighest load
Ask in the shop when you hire it. Most tents will be able to be split into parts so you can all carry a bit.
Get two four man tents and then draw straws as to who sleeps with who
Dont get an 8 man tent if someone is going to have to carry it. Why dont you go into a camping shop and feel the weight of the tents before you go away. Then you’d know, perhaps 2 of you could carry a four man tent. But the camping shop could advise you better
Good grief! Probably better to get 4 2 man tents and spread the weight around.
we have a six man and an eight man.
both can be disassembled into seperate pieces but could be a bit awkward to carry.
pegs, poles, main, groundsheet and inner rooms(if there are any) each are seperate
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About the only thing one person would have to carry, is the canvas of the tent itself
All the other items could be shared out – poles, ropes, sleeping quarters, groundsheets etc
…although the cooker can be quite heavy too!
Don’t do the big tent. Get the tents the way you planned initially. You’ll be sorry if you don’t. Forget this childish who sleeps in which tent crap. That’s bogus. Once you get on the trail, all that will drop away and you’ll all do just fine with each other.
You have to make a choice.
Tents for eight people can weigh upto 36 Ibs, yes it would be too heavy for one person to carry. I couldnt find any tents that can be disassembled.
Try this website it has many tent reviews, you can get all the details here.
Think about where your setting up this mammoth 8-man tent!
Will you have enough space? A lot of backcountry campsites are small, and can’t fit more then two 4 man tents, most are even smaller, at least the one’s I’ve encountered are.
I say go with a three and 2 man tent, or 2x4man tent.
If you know what the campsite looks like, and there will be enough space, split up the components of the 8 man.
see my answer to this question in your other forum
Let one person carry the tent.
Another person can carry the rain fly.
Another person can carry the tarp.
Another person can carry the poles.
Another person can carry the spikes.
Another person can carry the rubber mallet.
In a like fashion, divide up the cookware and food for the group.
If you are hiking – DON’T go with one BIG tent. Break it up into 2 or 3 man tents. Draw straws as to who sleeps where. Or let whoever carries a tent choose his/her tent mates. The smaller tents can be split up between 2-3 people to carry. No one person gets stuck with it.
from my experience 8 men cannot comfortable sleep in a 8 man tent, this is something you might want to try before you sleep,
Depends what which tent, and which company made it.
Most tents these days are made of light material, but they can still be quiet heavy. They also normally come in two sections, with possibily more.
The inner, living area. The outer, rain sheet. And if its a cheap tent you’ll have the sleeping areas to carry. If its a nice, slightly more expensive intergrated ground sheet, then the inside will already be attached.
Basically, you can expect to carry at least two large bits.
Hello,,such decision!!chances are if this is too hard to figure out you’ll just walk in circles anyway!!
i wouldnt get a 8 man tent. i would get 3–3man tents that way you have some room in one of them for storage. in the tents ive had only the stakes and supports would come off. carrying a 8 man tent would be very difficult.–dont forget a hammer to drive the stakes in
Boy’s in one tent Girl’s in the other……Didn’t think that would work , draw straws and enjoy yourselves, well that’s what the trip is about having fun….Be Safe
You’ve never been camping before … hoo , boy … and you’re hiking, too.
Look into having each person getting their own “two-man” tent. They can be bought for about $25, weigh less than 10 pounds, and are barely big enough for one normal adult to lie in and change clothes, let alone two people.
When they say “8-man” or “2-man” tents they are talking about floor space when you lay the sleeping bags out. If you put eight people in an “8-man” tent you will quickly learn that a lot of you are sleeping on top of each other. … and one guy with gas can make the whole night a misery … and if you need to change clothes there’s no room … and no room for your gear either.
There are some gaps in the information provided but you may want to make a serious study of the conditions and necessary supplies. Especially if you’re going to be carrying everything.
Is water going to be available? Toilets? Will you be able to make a fire? How far and for how long will you be away from a re-supply?
Some ballpark figures …
Tent – 10 pounds
sleeping bag – 5 pounds
backpack – 10 pounds
… so far we are at 25 pounds and we are barely getting started…
flashlight & batteries – 5 pounds
pots, pans, utensils – 5 pounds
… 35 pounds …
dry food … 1 pound per meal
canned food … 3 pounds per meal
snacks … 3 pounds
… we’ll call it 45 pounds
Toilet paper, first aid kit, spare socks, towel, – 5 pounds
… 50 pounds and we’re at some bare minimums …
Water … ??? … there’s the toughie … You’ll want at least a gallon per person at all times even if there’s supposed to be water available.
If you bump up to the 4 “3-man” tents plan you can save a few pounds that can be distributed amongst the group.
Is every member of your group going to be capable of hiking with a minimum of 50 pounds on their back?
That’s most def. not a backpacking tent. I’ve done alot of backpacking and I can tell ya. noone does that. It’s just to much. If I were personaly involved with this expedition I would take my own shelter system beit tent or tarps.
get a trailer
The tent you want will not be heavy at all. It will be compact and fit in one bag. There are many accessories for a tent check out EMS and L.L. Bean sporting good online.
it looks like you have seven people going if my math is better now than it used to be, get two four “person” tents and swap sleeping arrangements every night. this keeps everyones conversation fresh, prevents clicks and distributes the weight to a more manageable level. if the nights are warm enough everyone outside under the stars.
You could look at something like the “Vango” easy erect tents – maybe 4 of them sleeping two people each. No poles – it just “unwraps” and wraps up again into a circular flat pack weighing next to nothing; I’m well night 70 and I could carry four of them by myself all day, I reckon. Four is certainly less than any shopping bag I drag back home.
Shame you couldn’thave gone to the Camping Exhibition at Birmingham NEC which finishes today – they had a whole hall full of tents of all sizes, most of them discounted for the Show
Try asking Google for “Vango” tents and see what comes up and if it might suit your purpose, then go somewhere Midwest camping.
first of all an 8 man tent would be a 6 man tent with gear and an 8 man tent would be heavy + only could be broken down into the poles tent and rain fly useally so thats thrre it wuld not b even so good luck
Strange. some one asked this question earlier for Duke of Edinburgh Award. As an instructor I can tell you they\ wont let you carry it!
i would say take ur own tent one man tents r easy 2 set up but 8 man tent prob only weighs bout 20 to 25 lbs unless u have a very old tent share carrying if u want 2 take larger tent
I hired a tent that large once. It didn’t work well with other tents and it was mouthy. I really didn’t want to hire it in the first place, but HR said we had a “large tent” quota to fill. We didn’t have a large tent on our staff and we didn’t want to violate some EOE regulations, so I went ahead and hired it. It was a mistake. It came in late on its second day and then it gave the shift manager lip. After a week and several customer complaints we decided to let the tent go. It filed for unemployment and was denied, but there was an appeal and we had to go to court. It was a big waste of time. The judge ended siding with us and the tent didn’t get any unemployment. Last I heard, it is living in a cardboard box somewhere on the outskirts of Wheeling, West Virginia. It spends its days begging for handouts and picking up soda-pop cans for the deposit money so it can afford to buy cheap whiskey.