What is the strongest and most durable tent?

[Farmer17]

My church helps out a ministry for people that are homeless and living in tent cities. There is one tent city of about 40 people on the East side of town and when someone needs a tent we will typically buy one from Walmart or Academy. Oklahoma windstorms can be pretty hard on ANY tent but I was wondering what is the stoutest and most durable tent to live in? The tent should be at least 6' high and hold a family of two to four people.

 

[Mule Packer]

This, by far, is probably one of the stoutest and most durable types of tents around. It has a wood-burning stove and, depending on the size, can accommodate four-to-six people easily. Families have been known to live in them during the winters.

On the downside, you won't be able to find them at Walmart or Academy. They are available from such companies as Davis Tent and Awning, Sheridan Tent Co., or Colorado Tent Co.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Your church or civic group could contact one of the tent companies and see what they recomend and what quanity pricing would be. Here in central Ohio, most every tent city is set up on private property with no permission or even in violation of court orders, the property owners have no choice but to bulldoze the tent city and all the tents get destoried. There are sometimes homeless advocaticy groups that can help, but usually these homeless communities refuse to relocate when ordered to do so. I worked for a company that specalized in helping the homeless find houseing and jobs ect. and it is a growing problem on all sides of the issue. One Mid west city gives free bus tickets to anywhere else to the homeless to empty their town, but that is not a solution.
Mule Packer- that is a great looking tent sitting in a wonderful camp site!

 

[Chipmunk6]

Maybe try one of the GP
or GPS tents like these U.S. Largest Surplus Military Tents Stockpile
Chipmunk6

 

[Farmer17]

Your church or civic group could contact one of the tent companies and see what they recomend and what quanity pricing would be. Here in central Ohio, most every tent city is set up on private property with no permission or even in violation of court orders, the property owners have no choice but to bulldoze the tent city and all the tents get destoried. There are sometimes homeless advocaticy groups that can help, but usually these homeless communities refuse to relocate when ordered to do so. I worked for a company that specalized in helping the homeless find houseing and jobs ect. and it is a growing problem on all sides of the issue. One Mid west city gives free bus tickets to anywhere else to the homeless to empty their town, but that is not a solution.
Mule Packer- that is a great looking tent sitting in a wonderful camp site!

Apparently they get permission from sympathetic land owners and it doesn't violate any law except for one. The health department has a law that several tents constitutes a camping area which means the landowner must provide restrooms and hot and cold running water. The health department recently visited their site and posted white signs that said they had 24 hours to leave. We called the health department in a frenzy and the inspector said he would give the campers until the end of the week to leave, and he would then check that they were gone and had cleaned up the area. He then said (kinda under his breath) that he would not be checking the camping area again for a very long time.

 

[ChuckS1]

Maybe try one of the GP
or GPS tents like these U.S. Largest Surplus Military Tents Stockpile
Chipmunk6

LOL OMG, flashing back to wintertime tank gunnery at Graf and ARTEPs at Hohenfels.... My S4 burned his GP Small down trying to change the gas can on his arctic stove without turning off the stove first on the last ARTEP. Sometimes I miss the Army, but I don't miss the 15-6 investigation.