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A quick look at improvements I made to my French Commando Tent. Simple mods that make it a little more user friendly.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the channel
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So today I'm in the backyard and we're going to be looking at the French Commando tent and looking at improvements that can be done to it to make it a little bit more comfortable
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and easier to set up and make it more functional and even a little bit lighter
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So stick around, we're going to get into it. So today's video is just going to be a real quick update on my French Commando tent and
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some modifications I've done to it to make it a little bit easier to set up
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First thing that I've done is I've added this yellow shock cord to the front door
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These are the flaps that cover the door. Really what that does is it makes it a vestibule of sorts and it still allows ventilation to
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go through the front. The other thing I've done is I've added orange paracord to the corners of the tent
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anywhere that's being staked out to the ground. What I've done is I've replaced it with the aluminum shepherd's hook stakes to make it
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a little bit easier to set up. You get a tighter pull this way because you can really pull that tab out and it just works
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a lot better than the tabs that are sewn on because they're so short
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Next thing is adding aluminum V-stakes, long ones, for the guy lines
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That way I have a lot of room to pull those out
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Then the last thing are the doors, or the screen door. What I've done is on the screen doors I've actually cut off the zipper pulls and replaced
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those with a yellow reflective cordage. I think it's Kelty Triptech or something like that
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It's really nice because now you can see these zipper pulls at night
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You can use any kind of material if you have 550 cord or shoelace or whatever you have
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but I like the bright colors that way I can see them in the day. Then a reflective, it's nice because you can see them at night
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Of course on the ground you'll see the ground cloth peeking out
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What that is is that's actually Tyvek house wrap. I use this as my ground cloth
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It's a cut sheet, a 5x8. It fits the bottom of this tent perfectly
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When I took the tent out camping on my solo trip I used this ground sheet and it worked perfectly
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It kept the moisture from coming through the bottom of the tent
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This is about the third or fourth video I've done with this tent and you can see there's
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a lot of room inside this thing and plenty of ventilation with this front door and then
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the back window up there. Then on the sides, those pull down and you have full screen window on the sides, both sides
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So, tons of ventilation. The only problem is you really can't zip this door up because the pole is in the way
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I imagine if I wanted to maybe I could get that pole underneath the door
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I don't know if that will work or not. I didn't really try. Here, let's try that
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There we go. So now you can even close the door a little bit and that will give you a little more protection
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if the rain is coming down and it's going to shed out but you still have open ventilation here
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So, I really like that. I think it's a decent modification. The zipper pulls are so much easier to work with when they're just cords instead of the
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metal zippers. They're always so worthless, those metal zippers and they're noisy
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It would be great if this door was a little bit bigger and you could pull it out further
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That's about as far as I can pull this thing out and that still gives you some air underneath
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but plenty of protection in the front. Of course, you can cross these or just use one stick to get it nice and tight
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If you want to, you can open it from the inside and that's going to give you some airflow. Thanks for watching
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If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. I'll see you next time.
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