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Postby Wild Mike » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:30 am

Well ... my first night was trial by fire ... Ok by rain ! Our scout troop went camping on my Father-in-laws 17acres on a small creek. Set up for my tear was a breeze !!! I just unhooked it ... slipped in the two rear stablizer legs and set up a new 10x10 canopy (I found at Family Dollar for 15 bucks!).

Finally went to bed about 11:00 ... Scouts were still on the snipe hunt :lol: About 12:30 it started thundering and lightning and dumping tons of rain. I had the canopy set over most of the tear ... but left one side hanging out to test the weather proofing. After a very long night (it didn't stop raining or thundering) and about 45 minutes of sleep ... I got up dry and comfy :D :D We got about 2" of rain overnight and most of the scouts were sleeping in our cars. The rain just beaded up and ran off my tear ! With the top vent cracked just a bit and the little window in the rear open, every gust of wind would create a little breeze in the tear.

I am so pleased with tear and its performace. And towing it ... its like theres nothing back there! Now I have to make a set of fenders and paint the interior.

I parked it at home and had to make a roadtrip to take my daughter to a camp were she will spend two weeks as a councilor ... a 9 hour round trip. It was about 8:00 when my wife and I got home and she said can we cehck out the tear ? So we both climbed in and spent a few minutes laying there with the roof vent opend all the way ... it makes a great view looking up as you lay there. And she says ... whats a close campground that we could go NEXT weekend ? :o WooooooHooooo :D :D

Thanks for all the info you guys sahre here !
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Postby campadk » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:47 am

Sounds like a great time Mike! Good photo op too... did you take any shots of your tear in that storm? A few lightnight bolts overhead perhaps? :)

Actually any photos of your setup would be great.
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Postby Wild Mike » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:53 am

I've got a couple of photos ... luckily my wife stopped by with the camera. I hope to have a few photos up this afternoon.

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Postby BufordT » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:11 am

Sounds like you had a great time Mike. I like the way your tear is built with no kitchen. Keep us posted. Glad you enjoyed the camping trip.

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Postby Wild Mike » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:18 pm

OK ... got a couple of photos up in my teardrop album.

http://community.webshots.com/album/134505326WvUOXT/1

It was dark and my wife only stayed a bit ... an I forgot to have her leave the camera. :oops:

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Postby campadk » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:35 pm

Hey Mike,

Whats that little window at the back for? Doggie window? :P
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Postby mikeschn » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:39 pm

Wild Mike wrote:OK ... got a couple of photos up in my teardrop album.

http://community.webshots.com/album/134505326WvUOXT/1

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Looks like fun!!! I'll be sure to send you a picture of my first camping trip... it's coming up soon... July!!!

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Postby Jiminsav » Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:39 pm

you DAWG!!!!..making them poor scouts sleep in cars when they had perfectly good tents. 8)
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Postby Wild Mike » Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:27 am

Well the way I see it is ... if the scouts would have been sleeping on an air mattress they could have floated on the 2-3 inches of water in their tents ... But NOOOOOOOOO they just kind of got a little wet.

2 of the tents were older wall tents with no rain flys. An old scoutmaster was with us and he was just fine and interesting enough the 2 youngest scouts were fine too ! :lol:

Of course later in the morning when it was time to head home the inside windows of my truck looked like a tropical rain forest. It's amazing how much moisture 2 sleeping boys can generate with no ventilation.

An Dave ... thats what the little window is for :wink: Unfortunately my dog sheds so bad it would be a mess inside my tear if we took her camping. :cry:

Picked up the paint last night to do the interior ... so back to work.
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Postby tdthinker » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:02 pm

Even with rain a tear outing cant be destroyed!
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