Given a ridge tent, no idea how to pitch and missing poles

[codandchipstwice]

Just received a Freeman Atlas from Freegle, comes with a jumble of poles but no idea how they go together and think some missing.

Google not got much info, and people we got it from found it in their loft so don't know.

Anyone here know these tents or have any suggestions to where we can turn?

Many thanks

Cod

Google it and look at the images.

I have just bought a canvas ridge tent for weekends/festivals:

tentes.cabanon.com/index.php/collection/oregon-4.html?cat=14

Look at the pictures on mine showing the poles. You have one or two inverted V's front and back and or a single pole and a pole along the ridge. It is very simple.

Peg out the inner then insert the poles - have a go with the poles outside the canvas, you need to make a V, see if you have got another V and enough poles to bridge the gap from the front and back of the tent canvas. If you haven't got enough for a second V you might just have a single pole with a point on it - look at the one I bought for photos of that.

www.tentspares.co.uk are very good at supplying poles. I have just made a tarp for my ridge tent and two steel poles (they are used/re-cycled from old tents) cost £9.99.

Good luck - I love little ridge tents - reminds me of my childhood.

Is this it?

www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=32&TopicID=211406

If it's a 'traditional' style ridge tent you:

Peg out the 4 corners of the inner tent and the bell end (arf arf) (using the 'canvas' holes, not the elastics)

Put a pole at the front (may be longer than the one at the back, if so all the poles will be longer than all the back poles, iyswim)

Put a pole at the back.

Both of these should have a point on the end, which goes through a reinforced hole in the inner tent

You should have two plastic, cylindrical spacers. Put these on the spikes, outside the inner tent, then put the top pole between front pole and the back pole.

Peg the elastics to the ground.

Carefully put the flysheet over the inner tent (you don't want to rip it on the spikes) and peg down (start at the corners again, but you may need to move pegs later, make sure the fly sheet is well away from the inner tent - if they touch and it rains then the tent will leak).

Peg down the guy ropes. You may have little plastic hats for the top of your spikes.

You shouldn't have a v shaped pole ime, you should have two poles made up of two or three separate parts fitted together, and a cross pole for the top made up of three poles probably.

Lavendersun's link reminded me - there is probably a loop for the top (ridge) pole to go through so the inner tent doesn't sag in the middle...

You're all stars, thank you so much. I think it' complicated by the fact the bell end (!) also has poles a la gazebo to prop the door open and these have got muddled in. No spacers or hats but sure I could improvise. Now for nice weather to have a play down at the park, garden not big enough!

We used to have one that was exactly as Janek described. The spacers are essential for keeping the flysheet off the canvas, if you haven't got any you need to improvise.