need help: Bed tent

Is that a twin or a full size air bed you fit in there?

 

You know what would be kinda neat to try...find a cheap canvas military tent maybe a pup tent. Cut the front off and use simple magnets to attach to sides of truck and tailgate...would be super easy. Magnets would have to be strong enough not to drag around with wind or when entering the bed.

 

Here are the 50% off tents...great prices on the Keltys even.

https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/...&pageView:grid&minPrice:&maxPrice:&pageSize:&

I dont see any more Rightlines or Napiers. Assuming all sold out so not even listed on website anymore.

 

I am not familiar with a "pup" tent, but like your idea. I think I might have to use something in addition to magents to attach because of the plastic bed and fiberglass shell.

 

It's a twin between the wheel wells, if the wife is along I put a bigger one on top of the twin that goes full width (can't remember if its a full or queen).

 

Which part number/size did you go with for the longbed was thinking about getting this also TIA

 

Very cool. I want!!!

 

The part number is 110760. Type "

$200 rightline 110760 rightline gear mid-size long truck bed tent, 6 foot

rightline 110760" on google and the first link is the one I ordered from. It's considered the mid size long bed tent.

I just used it again this past weekend, I've got an airbedz mattress (PPL303 is the part number if you're interested in that as well. It's slightly smaller than a queen bed) now and the combo is great. Unfortunately I have to remove the tool box before the bed goes in, but it only takes a couple minutes so it doesn't bother me.

 

Did you buy the short bed or long bed version of the tent?

NVM, got to the end of the thread and found my answer.

 

Quick review after using it a couple times... definitely a good choice for the price. Used it a dozen or so times now and no tears or broken rods.

 

i have this one and like it.......if i c amped all the time i would get a more robust bolt on tent camper

 

Thinking outside the box for a minute. Any of these 3-hoop design tents: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=throw+tent&FORM=HDRSC2 I use one. Not my go-to set-up (hammock is), but one I can use. One of the many camping options that I choose from depending on the weekend's circumstances. Sets up in less than 30 seconds from the time you pull the drawstring on the bag it is in. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=throw+tent+unfurling Queen size air mattress fits inside it, with room on both ends for you ruck and shoes. I butt-up a 6000btu window A/C to it and run a Honda EU2000 generator to make it like ice inside it in the summer. I guarantee you your better half will have no problem getting down on the ground, on the air mattress and snuggle-bunnying under some warm blankets when it is 53-degress inside it! Glamping at its finest. (No its not, but she'll love it.) And the generator on Eco-mode is not noise, but just the right amount of quiet white-noise that she needs to cover those scary noises in the night. Can't do that with a bed tent: either the A/C drips its condensate in and on the tailgate, or right under it and you have a mudpit to step out in when you get up in the morning. And the best part...if I have to go somewhere in my vehicle (ice run, beer run, ice cream run, bait run) I don't have to break camp to do it! In the morning it stows almost as fast as it flings open the night before. Not as good as a hammock THAT IS ALWAYS LEVEL AND ROCK-FREE!!!, but pretty damn good. THERE ARE BETTER TENTS, but none that pitch and stow this quick, and these are good enough for the girls I go with. Three-hoop tents are good enough, even when I have better, more roomier options from which to choose:

 

i use mine with the BakFlip MX4......use as a shelf......cut the floor up high so I could fold it around......use a blow up mattress and good sleeping bag......very good and plenty of room for 2

 

People go outdoors enjoy nature and to get away from noise pollution. If you are that soft, get a camper and stay at RV parks or rent a cabin. The vast majority of people outdoors don't want to hear the drown of your generator.

 

Heatwave, Craig. Welcome son. So, Podna...within three posts of you ridin' into town, you're already slinging smack and casting aspersions. Yeah, Spud. You're new meat. With an attitude like that be forewarned that you'll find a willing crew here ready to gleefully hand you your ass. They like for people like you to show up! Judging by your cocksucker attitude and your stellar ability to instantly win friends I bet you sold a Bimmer to buy that Taco, didn't you?

First my boy, that air conditioner is not the 6,000Btu air conditioner that I use with the Honda generator. Rather, that A/C stuck in the side of the Coleman Instant-Up tent is a 12,000Btu unit that runs on electricity provided with that campsite. Quiet too. It and the shade of that canopy over the tent makes 90+ degree weather with 90+ humidity bearable. Enjoyable, actually. Allows me to stay and fish, sleeping in comfort, when all of the "soft" pussies have packed it in and gone home. Second, when I do run the Honda generator to power the 6,000Btu A/C in the bed of my Taco, or in the window of the hoop tent I'm camping somewhere where there is no electricity. Or other campers to hear it and get their panties in a knot about it. You know, like when a tree falls in the woods? And there is nobody there to hear it? Yeah, that.

Now, as far as "If you are that soft". (I got a chuckle outta' that.) If I want to get "soft" I leave the air-conditioned tents home: I have a 32-foot Southwind motorhome to get "soft" in, but after fifty-plus years of doing most every kind of camping there is (including once sleeping in a warm depression in the beach sand with my salt shaker)(Okay, more than once) I now prefer to go light as possible, move fast.



Most of the time though, I don't even come in off the water anymore. I sleep in the boat. On 110,000 acre Sam Rayburn, there's a lot of water to camp on, serenely. For free!







Finally..."the drown of your generator"? Don't you mean the drone of my generator? Vocabulary, Tonto. You can buy a cool truck, but you can't buy cool. Because while you can buy mods for that Taco, you can't buy a vocabulary. And it's hard to project cool when you are misappropriating a limited one.

 

I had one of those, used it 3 or 4 times and was done. It's such a pain to put up, especially in the dark and if you're carrying anything else in the bed, it has to come out. Once it's set up, if you want to go somewhere, you need to pull it out as is or pack it up. It's a great concept and works for some folks, but for me, it was just too much effort.

 

Dang @tonykarter you took that boy to school!

I'm getting "soft". Bought a travel trailer, most likely will ditch my bed tent (pic in my 2017 post) now that I have gotten used to "glamping" in my TT.

The thought of setting up the bed tent and airbedz makes me tired now.

FUN FUN THE SIGNS OF INCREASING AGE!

 

Oh yeah! With age comes camping wisdom! I don't do uncomfortable anymore. Art, consider going to Bed, Bath and Beyond and buying a 3-inch memory foam mattress topper for that travel trailer queen-size mattress. And if your queen-size mattress in your new travel trailer is like the one in my motorhome it is too short! REMEDY: I was thumbing through the Camping World catalog while seeking knowledge on the toilet a week or so ago and I saw a thing that you put up at the head of the mattress that spaces it down from the wall and makes it where your feet don't hang off the end. GENIUS! I just put a few pillows up there, but this thing is nice! If you don't learn these things in fifty years of camping, you ain't learned nuthin! Another secret I learned: a hot shower with the benefit of UNLIMITED HOT WATER before bed while tent or hammock camping makes all the difference in the quality of REST you get that night. We fish hard, and trying to stay upright in a boat in a chop, all day, that is a workout for old bones. But a hot shower when it is over? A 2 1/2 gallon per minute shower with unlimited steam (140+ degree steam if needed)(your home shower is only a 1 1/2 gallon/minute hot shower)of UNENDING hot water? With a ZingZang Bloody Mary, or two, to drink while in the steam? Don't mess with old folks. Soak as long as you want: