04-28-2005, 12:40 PM
Dear Andrew,
"Essentially you have one edge with eyelets along it, and the other has loops of rope. Each loop is just the right length to go through one eyelet and run along the edge of the canvas to the next; the next loop goes through its eyelet and the previous loop; and so on to the end of the seam."
sounds like a very ingenious system !
A question to our tent experts - I know little more about Roman leather tents than what has been published by Carol van Driel-Murray.
Have there been any finds which suggest the above mentioned method was used for Roman tents ? Perhaps for the entrance ?
Dan, do you know something about this ?
"What do you do if your mule dies, or goes lame, when you have a 45 pound lump of leather to carry? Good luck getting the quarterbloke to issue you another mule without the appropriate dockets"
In such a case you just need a new mule anyway because the mule has to carry the hand mill (ca. 30 kg). I have never tried to carry a mill over long distances but I doubt it is easy :wink:
A solution might be to disassemble the mill into its two basic components and load one of them on the calo and the other one on another unfortunate being... Not a good compromise and I think it would lead to the necessity of abandoning other equipment for this.
A replacement mule would work better...
"Essentially you have one edge with eyelets along it, and the other has loops of rope. Each loop is just the right length to go through one eyelet and run along the edge of the canvas to the next; the next loop goes through its eyelet and the previous loop; and so on to the end of the seam."
sounds like a very ingenious system !
A question to our tent experts - I know little more about Roman leather tents than what has been published by Carol van Driel-Murray.
Have there been any finds which suggest the above mentioned method was used for Roman tents ? Perhaps for the entrance ?
Dan, do you know something about this ?
"What do you do if your mule dies, or goes lame, when you have a 45 pound lump of leather to carry? Good luck getting the quarterbloke to issue you another mule without the appropriate dockets"
In such a case you just need a new mule anyway because the mule has to carry the hand mill (ca. 30 kg). I have never tried to carry a mill over long distances but I doubt it is easy :wink:
A solution might be to disassemble the mill into its two basic components and load one of them on the calo and the other one on another unfortunate being... Not a good compromise and I think it would lead to the necessity of abandoning other equipment for this.
A replacement mule would work better...
Florian Himmler (not related!)
