ARMY TM 10-8340-211-13
AIR FORCE TO 35E5-1-101
4-11. Erection of Large General Purpose Tent (cont).
NOTE
Never angle a tent pin away from the tent. Drive 16 inch wood pins straight up-and-down. Drive 24 inch
wood pins at an angle about 15 degrees from vertical toward tent. Pins angled away from the tent have
more leverage from the tent line. When canvas gets wet and shrinks, the pin acts like a lever and
enlarges the hole, loosening the pin.
f.
Use length of 5 ft. 8 in. eave pole (4) as a measure in placement of pins equidistant from walls as shown in
ground plan (figure 4-6), mark and drive 24 inch pins (5) then attach side (6), comer (7), and door eave lines (8)
to pins.
g.
Insert spindles of 5 ft. 8 in. eave poles (4) in grommets in eaves and at corners, insert spindles of 6 ft. 2 in.
door poles (9) in grommets of front and rear doors.
h.
Refer to view B and raise tent walls by raising all eave, corner, and door poles (4,9) to a vertical position, then
tighten all guy lines just enough to hold walls and poles upright.
i.
Assemble the four jointed center poles (10) and from inside tent, position them as shown in view C, with spindles
through ring and grommet (11) in roof.
Figure 4-7. Erection of Large General Purpose Tent.
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