{"id":405,"date":"2008-11-23T20:28:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T12:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/?p=405"},"modified":"2008-11-23T21:46:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T13:46:36","slug":"camping-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/2008\/11\/23\/camping-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remembered during my Venture days, we wanted to build an elevated camping site during Group Camp. Due to the &#8220;massive&#8221; idea plus the lack of time, we shelved that idea. Now as I was surfing this site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneeringmadeeasy.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Pioneering Made Easy<\/a>, I realised we were not the only crazy people thinking of this idea. In fact, they have conceptualized a down-sized version of our initial idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>Camping Platform<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneeringmadeeasy.co.uk\/camping\/images\/Campplatfm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s there were a large number of Groups taking up a challenge by John Sweet to build multi-storey camping platforms. This is a basic design which could be adapted and extended to suit the available materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>17 x 6m (18ft) spars<\/li>\n<li>9 x 4m (12ft) spars<\/li>\n<li>2 x 3m (10ft) spars<\/li>\n<li>10 x 2.5m (8ft) spars<\/li>\n<li>2 x 2m (6ft) spars<\/li>\n<li>10 x 1.2m (4ft) spars<\/li>\n<li>2 x 1m stakes<\/li>\n<li>4 long ropes for guys<\/li>\n<li>51 lashing lengths<\/li>\n<li>4 tent pegs<\/li>\n<li>mallet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneeringmadeeasy.co.uk\/camping\/Campplatfm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full article at Pioneering Made Easy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remembered during my Venture days, we wanted to build an elevated camping site during Group Camp. Due to the &#8220;massive&#8221; idea plus the lack of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[40,55],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-camp","tag-pioneering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragonscouts.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}