question 8x8 foot British Army closed command canvas shelter fv2219143, HELP!!!

Add the outer door frame poles then the outer door frame side tops and the outer door frame cross members.

You’ve finished – just add the canvas.

Easy really. (NOT)

Nic

And here's the picture from the Witham's ad - canvas in place.

Blimey, I assume you had to work all that out for yourself? I haven't found any instruction manuals for this shelter anywhere yet, and they don't supply one with the kit as far as I can tell.

Thanks for going to the trouble of doing this, it's much appreciated.

I'll be driving to Grantham on Wednesday to pick up another one of these with a frame included. Once I've got a complete set of frame parts, I plan to make up some duplicate frames from the seventy odd tent poles I got last time. I've become pretty good at cutting and welding aluminium tubes.

Maybe then I can sell the other 4 canvases without making a loss!

Cheers for this.

Eric

Just a warning to those thinking of buying a complete shelter with poles etc. I'm driving down to South Wales at the moment with one on the back of my trailer.

Scaring the living bejeezus out of me and all other road users! The crate it comes in is 9feet by 4feet by 1.5feet and weighs in at 280 kg! My trailer is only 6feet by 4.5 feet on a transit axle with no brakes. Don't tell me plod...

me and the loader at Withams could only just lift the end of it together, had to use a fork lift in the end.

gonba have to crack the crate on the trailer at the other end to get this off.

Eric

Been there - done that. I'm not posting the photos in case they are used in evidence!

Suffice to say a very steady trip back to Yorkshire!

Nic

Got home after driving solidly for 10 hours, with a break in the middle to get the crate on the trailer.

Now I've opened and unpacked the thing, and about half the weight was the wood crate. Im sure this would fit into a much smaller and lighter package.

The frame is unnecessarily complex and weighty, it could have been constructed of thinner walled tubes and the jointing hardware reduced. Ill be making some copies of the tubes in the next few weeks so I can fiddle with the fitting and fettling a bit to see if I can make it simpler and lighter.

Ive left a FOI request for an assembly handbook on the GOV.UK website. If I get a useable response Ill make copies available to other users/buyers.

Eric

After a long hiatus, some radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and an unbelievable number of scans and xrays, I have finally got back into doing all this craziness with tents and stuff.

I am in the process of building an expedition trailer which will be long enough to carry the parts for this tent, and a quad bike around, for when I start my tour of archaeological and metal detecting sites in the north of the uk and scotland.

The FOI request was a complete bust, they could not find any manuals or instructions for assembling this tent. So Im going to go with the primer supplied above.

Having made a copy of this frame from tent poles, I have cut the weight down to a manageable 150kg.

I will now be selling the original tent and frame for around £500 if anyone's interested.