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Should I buy a Polish Army Luvvu?

Aah!
Now I understand why you stich in the zippers!
;0)

I think, to let the buttons with the new zippers is a life boat, keeps the original look and historical substance and is additional wind protection.

The polish tent is in Germany still available in green used for 46 € and in black, as good as new, perhaps unused for 50€.
That means the whole tent with pegs, poles etc.

I called the shop Räer in Hildesheim.
They told me, that they deliver to Britain too.
You could try to write the homepage adress buy hand she says, and that they work in the problem with the not working links.

They want to deliver to Britain.

Does the link here work now?

 
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With the way of the world, I think that apocalypse has been here for a while now!!!🤣
That apart, I got a local seamstress to sew my lavvu zips in.......make them deffo zombie proof!!!:alien7:

Cheers mate, how much did the seamstress charge if you don't mind me asking.
 
What do these poncho tents weigh when dry and when soaked? I seem to remember them being very heavy. My Golite 'lavvu' weighs a kilo.
 
Harry-They are canvas, not polyester, so they weigh about 7 kg give or take with poles and pegs. You don't use cotton tents for ultimate lightness...…..
Bam- no idea yet, she's ordering the zips then fitting them all. Last time it was one long zip which I bought, about £15.
Erbswurst- that price is higher than some available here, EX cluding postage. And yes, with reference to the zip placement. And no, the link is not working 👎
 
What?
You mean a whet tent, isn't it?

Dry they should weight

1400 g the poncho alone
3340 g the whole tent

If my informations are right.
 
My Golight is made from silnylon super tent it is two. Those poncho tents weight more than a Vango Force Ten and I know which one I'd be sleeping in when the weather goes breast up and it ain't the poncho setup.

 
What?
You mean a whet tent, isn't it?

Dry they should weight

1400 g the poncho alone
3340 g the whole tent

If my informations are right.

You're right Erbswurst……. I am getting old now...…., need my malted milk drink!!
 
That's the great thing about tents Harry...…..theres a choice, I just happen to feel for £20-£30, it's a blinder in foul weather, with or without a stove if snow.
Because of "choice" I am lucky also to be able to use other tents too, should I wish : marvellous!
(but none are plastic!)
 
My Golight is made from silnylon super tent it is two. Those poncho tents weight more than a Vango Force Ten and I know which one I'd be sleeping in when the weather goes breast up and it ain't the poncho setup.


I've got the lavvu for when I go camping with a shortish walk, I wouldn't take it hill walking. Maybe a bit self indulgent but I wanted a canvas set up that I could rig near a fire without fear, more often than not I tarp anyway but again that ain't canvas. They're solid enough for faffing about with though.
 
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That's the great thing about tents Harry...…..theres a choice, I just happen to feel for £20-£30, it's a blinder in foul weather, with or without a stove if snow.
Because of "choice" I am lucky also to be able to use other tents too, should I wish : marvellous!
(but none are plastic!)

No way in a million years are they a foul weather tent, they would not last in the Beacons or Snowdonia when it starts blowing proper Welsh wind :)

Anyway, some folk like them so good luck to you, just keep out the way of bad weather and high winds.

In answer to the original question 'Should I buy'.....no, not in my opinion. Nothing else to add so I'll keep off this thread.
 
Ah, but many do use them in Canada and northern Europe in the snow. (Actually I remember a UT vid of someone in Wales, in a bit of a breeze: he quite liked it too?)The shape makes them very efficient in wind, being circular....just not light!;)
So... yes you're right, "Some folk like them".
I think your last point ("Should I buy?") is very valid, so don't keep off the thread, that's what it's for?
 
This polish tents are constructed to survive a NATO ATTACK. That's what they are made for! So far I am informed, they are nuclear bomb proof. (If I understood it right. I had to read the informations about it in Polish. Unfortunately my Polish isn't as good as my English.)

Did I see it right, that the tent Mr. Palmer shows us here is red?
Or is it more orange-red? Or more orange?
Or is it a Dia-Negative photo???

We discuss here socialistic green tents, and not capitalistic red tents, so far I understood it correctly. Red are the flags over there, currently more red and white. But the army tents are green, if not exceptional black!

IF a plastic tent, than that here:


680g outer tent, separately available for 160 €

The whole tent costs 230 €, without the pole. Yes, pole! Not Pole! They can be delivered to Poland too, but Polish persons are not meant to be included! Of course, a strong Pole could replace easily the pole, because the tent has a loop at the tip outside.

He could hold it during the night, if you protect him a bit, for example with a well fitting Polish army tent cotton poncho.

But mainly polish persons are not discussed here, because that tent is constructed next to Bielefeld in Germany by the maker of the Tschum cotton lavvus, which are made by himself in Germany, but this here is made from Silnylon in China.

Did you get it?

The guy sells and constructs Luxe Outdoor Silnylon tents, which are made in China, but makes Tschum cotton tents himself in Germany.

I know the guy, I know the Tschum cotton tent and I own and use the Luxe Outdoor SilHexpeak V4a Silnylon tent, which is available in bigger sizes too.
The Silnylon tent is very good.

Because I usually do not find Poles in the german Forest, which could hold the tent during the night, I usually use wooden poles I easily can find in the german forest. I can use one inside, because the fabric is very tough protected, or two outside, or I can hang it at a vertical line from a branch or a horizontal line, tensioned between two trees.
Or I use a long walking stick, aluminium or carbone or hasel wood, or I buy from that guy or somewhere else a sectioned aluminium tarp pole.

The guy sells probably Chinese ones, but Polish ones would be possible too.
If you like, of course you can polish the Polish poles, or you hire a Pole to do it.
This tent gives you every pole option you can imagine!
You even could use a polished Polish pole and walk with that tent and a Pole to a Pole! (If you have good ski equipment and warm layers, because it's incredible cold there, so far I am informed.)
Of course you could do it with the Polish army tent too.

The Tschum cotton tents, by the way, are made in the highest quality that is currently possible.

Because it is mainly handcrafted on demand, you can order nearly every sensible extra you can imagine. Of course the guy speaks Englisch, if anybody who reads this till here (Chapeau!) would be interested.


Thank you for your kind attention!
 
Well this was a long forgotten idea but..........

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If it stops raining for more than 5 minutes over the weekend Ill get her opened up an take some pics (I am very excited!)
 
If it stops raining for more than 5 minutes over the weekend Ill get her opened up an take some pics (I am very excited!)

They're a nice simple tent, it won't take you long to figure it out mate, look forward to the phots. Room for me and a large retriever and that's just a bog basic one, have you seen the vids where folk have 'pimped' them ?
 
Theres a brilliant one where someone buttons......in a zip. Superb idea, except I had just covered one of mine in zips, sewn in....doh!
 
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