04-19-2012, 11:49 PM
Quote:...The stand alone frame you use seems very well made and I am sure it works well, but I really wonder if it is really necessary when the same tent could be held up simply by vertical poles. Is the inclusion of a central vertical pole really a problem? I have stood in many tents of that size and larger whose roofs were supported by a central pole and have never found the pole to be inconvenient.
Crispvs
Hi Crispvs,
The advantage to the standalone frame might come when you are doing displays at locations where you can't stake your tents. I once did a living history display at a college on their playing field and we weren't allowed to put up any of our canvas because it would have meant staking it all down. Come to find out (and of course we only found this out after we had arrived :evil: ) the entire field was underlain with piping for an irrigation system!
Live and learn,
Lucianus
L.E. Pearson
