How to Assemble a Timber Top Screen Tent

Timbertop tents are marketed and sold in Australia and New Zealand. Among the company's line are screen tents. These shelters are solid options for extreme hot weather camping where there are tremendous numbers of insects, such as the Australian outback. Assembling a mesh tent such as the Timbertop is no different than setting up a standard tents, with two caveats: there is no rain fly and care must be taken to not rip the mesh panels.

Instructions

    • 1

      Clean the ground of any rocks, logs or big sticks. Open the stuff sack and pull out all of the contents. Pull the poles out of their pole bag and set them aside. Remove the tent stakes and set them next to the tent.

    • 2

      Lay out the tent poles and assemble them. Push the rod blanks together to make the tent poles that will support the mesh tent body.

    • 3

      Unroll the mesh tent over the cleared ground. Take care not to step on or walk on the mesh panels. Avoid sticks and snags, as the mesh rips easier than nylon tent fabric.

    • 4

      Clip the Timbertop tent pole clips to the poles. There are no tent pole sleeves because Timbertop uses external pole clips for its mesh tents. Criss-cross the tent poles and push the tent pole tips into the metal holes at the end of the pole clip lines. The mesh tent will now be standing upright.

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      Place one tent stake into the ground and through a pole strap stake hole. Pull the tent out as you insert the stake to keep the mesh panels tight. Stake down each pole strap around the perimeter of the tent. Unzip the doors to enter the tent. Zip up the doors quickly after entry to keep bugs and insects out of the tent.