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CBSSTony
05-08-2008, 14:57
Has anyone used the Ecotat light weight sleeping bag multi purpose or the tent multi purpose?

Frolicking Dinosaurs
05-08-2008, 15:04
Link to Ecotat tent info (3 item on page) (http://www.imsplus.com/ims66e.html)

Jefe'
05-08-2008, 15:04
Yep. Used it during its inception and testing phase when I was an Army Ranger. Back then, it was nicknamed the "leakotat."

Tho I'm sure subsequent models fixed the obvious problems, if yr looking at an earlier one I'd think twice, IMHO.

Froggy
05-08-2008, 15:36
Is that anything like a Puddy Tat?

sofaking
05-08-2008, 15:38
i think it's some kind of enviromentally friendly tattoo pigment...for hippies.

Foyt20
05-08-2008, 17:12
Why 4.5 lbs for a one man tent? Get a hubba.

Frolicking Dinosaurs
05-08-2008, 17:26
I was wondering if there was some reason this tiny tent was so heavy - 4.5 lbs for what is basically a bivy with a bug net seems really, really heavy.

CBSSTony, have you seen the Six Moon Design (http://www.sixmoondesigns.com/shop/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=11&cat=Shelters) shelters? The Gatewood Cape / shelter plus the ultralight net tent is both rainwear and a shelter with bug protection (does everything the Ecotat except become a coat) and weights only 19 ozs

take-a-knee
05-08-2008, 17:56
I was wondering if there was some reason this tiny tent was so heavy - 4.5 lbs for what is basically a bivy with a bug net seems really, really heavy.

CBSSTony, have you seen the Six Moon Design (http://www.sixmoondesigns.com/shop/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=11&cat=Shelters) shelters? The Gatewood Cape / shelter plus the ultralight net tent is both rainwear and a shelter with bug protection (does everything the Ecotat except become a coat) and weights only 19 ozs

Two reasons:

1) like most miltary gear, it was produced by someone who'll never have to carry it.

2)A GI will tear up an anvil with a rubber knife, so a lot of gear is designed accordingly.

Seeker
05-09-2008, 00:12
we were issued them on a test basis at fort drum in the early 90s. i don't know a single Soldier who used the bivy, ever, aside from the first time he set it up. a poncho and a head net provided better coverage for about 3 and a half pounds less weight. the bags were pretty worthless too, but you had to sleep in something, so they did get used, if reluctantly.

CBSSTony
05-09-2008, 08:37
I didn't know anything about the shelter, I have one of the sleeping bags. I use it in the winter as a throw on cold nights and my Min Pin sits on my lap with his head out the head hole. The idea just interested me. Thanks