tim292stro
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Based on photos and videos I've obtained, and eye-balling the stored package height, I'm guessing 72" - as luck would have it I've never had a tent out of a bag and had a tape measure available at the same time. I did "reverse engineer" the tents before I bought any of them - at first I was going to build them myself from scratch as I didn't want to go the retail path and wasn't finding them for sale. Turned out that I just wasn't looking hard enough for them and when I had done the math I came out with a material cost about $1-2K below retail (about $12K if I built a 305 myself, $14K if I bought new) - so my belief is that their margins are very tight at HDT, much tighter than many may give them credit for. Really the only way to make any money on them is to make a bunch (like they do).
You can make a boot for any vehicle you want - it's only temper tent vinyl, and velcro. If you think it droops too much, you can add 1" 6061-T6 tubing and have it anodized black. The poles and frame articulations are designed to be at most 60" long (5-feet, 1525mm), so if you want to pack it in the same tent bag, keep that in mind
You can make a boot for any vehicle you want - it's only temper tent vinyl, and velcro. If you think it droops too much, you can add 1" 6061-T6 tubing and have it anodized black. The poles and frame articulations are designed to be at most 60" long (5-feet, 1525mm), so if you want to pack it in the same tent bag, keep that in mind