Thread: Show us your camping set up

Hi CJT,

Last photo on Fraser? Lake Boomanjin?

Nice photos

Originally Posted by reubsrover

Hi CJT,

Last photo on Fraser? Lake Boomanjin?

Nice photos

Thanks,

First 1st pic is Jimna (it was cold in winter), 2nd & 3rd are Somerset Dam on skiing weekends and 4th is actually just North of Rockhampton, great spot seperated by 100km of corrugated dirt roads from everything else.

I have a few different setups depending on how long and how many people are there and the type of weekend.

Soon for those quick trips it will be just me, my swag and a new awning on the disco. 5 minute setup and all done.

Originally Posted by kenleyfred

Our Hannibal set up. Taken on our first trip. Going away this weekend, will add more later.

Looks good. Is that the 1.8m tent?

Yes it is, soon to be a 2m tent.

Thought I'd introduce yet another DIY camper setup... Nissan Navara tub, ARB canopy, HD roof bars mounted through canopy. Austrack Rooftop tent...opens over rear of trailer. Record time for stopping, setting up tent (without annexe) and crawling into sleeping bag during a cold snap (8degC)late one night was 6 minutes... very comfortable...

Std Rangie/D2 wheels all around. Trailer axle 45mm, Alko springs (3 leaf) with shock absorbers and electric brakes wired through 12 pin Narva trailer plug to controller mounted in RR.
Camper tub contains 2 x Supercharge 105AH Allrounder batteries wired in parallel, 150W and 500W pure sine wave inverters, 90L water tank with pump, spares box (large ), lubricants, tool kit, spare coolant, rooftop tent annexe, tarps, chairs, table, dual fuel stove, cooking pots etc. Food and fridge in Rangie. Batteries charged via SC80 controller mounted in spare compartment space behind main battery under the bonnet of the Rangie




The box on the drawbar houses recovery gear, collapsible toilet (Jimmy's Thunderbox), 2 cartons of wood scraps and potbelly stove made from a 9kg gas cylinder plus ...250 Freightliner fuel tank...220L useable... pressure fed to main tank through 3/8" line with ball valve tap using "gentle" pressure from ARB compressor attached to Schrader valve threaded into brass screw in vent plug.




At Lake Awoonga ...home made self-supporting 6'x8'- 2minute- $100 awning attaches to 8' slotted angle retained on roof basket by 3 jubilee clips...
(2 x twist/lock aluminium tent poles (270cm), 1 x twist/lock spreader (270cm), 6'x8' tarp, 2 small right angled brackets attached to Sportzbar retention screws, 2 x 30mm plastic boots ($2 pkt of 4 from Bunnings) screwed to right brackets to receive pole bases, 3 snap rings to connect tarp to slotted angle, elastic cord and tent peg to stop awning lifting in breeze. If too breezy, simply remove poles from roof rack base and stand upright and fix with ropes/pegs. Adjust height/slope of awning by inc/decrease length of poles





Battle scarred ...at Archer River on way home from the Cape... nothing fell off..

Love your awning setup, simple, cheap and effective. Thanks even more for sharing what bits you've used and where to get them.

Originally Posted by Binford

True, but this is the "Camping, Tucker and Bush Basics" forum asking to show your camping set up, which I did. However, there was a really nice old Series IIa parked a few hundred yards away if that helps!

I saw the hammock beforethevision posted and had to pipe in. I am Land Roverless, though have my heart set on a IIa one of these days. Probably when I convince my wife we need another 4WD!

Let me show what I did with my new tarp yesterday. The "snake skin" concept might well be applicable to much of what many of you are doing.


My order of Silnylon (1.1oz silicone-impregnated ripstop nylon fabric) finally arrived and, with help from my mother and my wife, I joined two panels together with a flat-felled seam, hemmed all the edges and sewed on a bunch of 1" Grosgrain nylon loops for tie-outs. It is now a 10' x 10'+ tarp for my hammock. (They only helped with the seam. They made me fight through the rest of it, only helping untangle the stupid sewing machine when the thread got all bunched up!) I absolutely HATE sewing, I can now tell you that. Especially that super-thin, slippery Silnylon! Yuk!

Anyway, I then cut some of my no-see-um mosquito netting material and made a pair of "snake-skins." Rather than try to explain what they do, let me show you a series of three pictures I just took of the tarp with the skins.

Here's the tarp set up between two trees in my front yard. I use a really light-weight, 1/16" orange cord called Spectra "Pulse Line" (275-lb breaking strength!) to tie it to the trees and for tie-outs on all four corners. The black mozzie-netting skins are bunched up on the support lines on either side and the tarp is hanging free (not staked out):




Here I've pulled the skin from the left over half the tarp, enveloping it in the tube:




Finally, with both sides pulled in, the tarp is completely enveloped:




I can now untie it from the trees and wad it up into a ball. If I really work at it, I could get it down to the size of a large grapefruit. With little effort, it's about cantaloupe size. The whole thing (tarp, skins, and all six 10-foot guy lines) weigh in at 1 lb 3oz.

The beauty of this is in setup. I just unwad it and it's like a big, thick rope with the guy lines tied up on each end. Unhitch the guy lines and attach them to the trees, then pull the skins back and I'm ready to stake it out!

The skins are made of mosquito netting so it can be packed up wet if need be and it would be able to dry. Just lay it over the backpack and let it air out.

The skins would work on any light tarp material. I don't think the results would be good with canvas, even a light one. But it really makes set up and stowage of your lighter tarps an absolute snap!

That's great Binford, how do you pack the trees up?

I'm afraid you'd have to bring your own trees!

With two vehicles, you could park them about 10 feet apart and tie on to them with both tarp and hammock. Or roll out a swag under it.

Or stick two long stakes or poles in the ground and hang the tarp between them to roll a swag out below if it looks like you might get rained on.