ARMY TM 10-8340-211-13AIR FORCE TO 35E5-1-1014-10. Erection of Medium General Purpose Tent (cont).NOTENever angle a tent pin away from the tent. Drive 16 inch wood pins straight up-and-down. Drive 24 inchwood pins at an angle about 15 degrees from vertical toward the tent. Pins angled away from the tenthave more leverage from tent line. When the canvas gets wet and shrinks, the pin acts like a lever andenlarges the hole, loosening the pin.f.Use a five foot eight inch eave pole (4) as a measure to place pins equidistant from sidewall according to groundplan (figure 4-4), mark and drive 24 inch wood pins (5), then attach side (6), corner (7), and door eave (8) guylines to pins.g.Insert spindles of five foot eight inch eave poles (4) in grommets at eave and corner. Insert six foot two inchdoor poles (9, View B) in grommets of front and rear doors.h.Raise tent walls by raising all eave, corner, and door poles (4, View A and 9, View B) to a vertical position. Thentighten all guy lines (6, 7, 8, View A) just enough to keep poles and sidewalls upright.i.Assemble the two joined center poles (10) and the joined ridge pole (11), then from inside the tent, position themas shown in view C (figure 4-5) with spindles of center poles (12) through ridge pole plates and grommets in roof.j.From outside tent, attach ridge guy lines (13) to spindles of center poles and to pins.k.From inside tent with one man at each center pole (14, View D), raise them to a vertical position, then tightenridge guy lines (15).l.From outside tent, assure that all guy lines are attached to pins and tightened and all footstops (16) are attached.Figure 4-5. Erection of Medium General Purpose Tent.NOTEBe sure all poles are straight before tightening the guy lines just tight enough to remove all wrinkles from roof.4-8 Change 2
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