Cooler Covers

[TheColorBearer]

How many of you are at an event and you want to open your tent up for the public to see but you have this Coleman cooler stickin out like a farby sore thumb. No more will any of you have to deal with it. This guy sold me a cooler cover that he made by hand and it completely covers the cooler and allows me to open my tent for full view.

He is a member of these boards i believe, his buisness name was D&J Sutlery. He is just getting started in the sutler field but his products are of good quality and he can make you a cooler cover just about any way you want it. I am hoping he will make me another one that has my name on the top of it.

[tompritchett]

Moderator Hat: Ahem folks. Let's place nice. Yes, there are many of you who do not use coolers at your events and consider them farby but there are far more in the hobby who do use them for food or whatever. Most do go to great efforts to keep them out of site and this post is somewhat applicable to them. Besides, for the time being I am cracking down on the sniping by both sides of the hobby at the other.

[thpritchett]

How many of you are at an event and you want to open your tent up for the public to see but you have this Coleman cooler stickin out like a farby sore thumb. No more will any of you have to deal with it. This guy sold me a cooler cover that he made by hand and it completely covers the cooler and allows me to open my tent for full view.

Reenactor Hat: Personally, whenever I do have modern items in my tents, be it a cooler with food for the company, my ammo box with extra powder and rounds, or my gun cleaning kit, not only do I hide the items, I make it a habit of keeping my tent closed to the public. The only time that my tent is every left open to the public is when all I have is my ground-cloth, blanket, a tic-mattress, and possibly a wooden box, and whatever gear I happen not to be wearing at the time. The public can pick up very quickly what is hidden under the blanket or cooler cover.

[Ross L. Lamoreaux]

I tried to be polite in my post that was stricken, but where is the line drawn about posting about items that are fantasy items that were not around during this era? I find it a slap in the face to the many on this forum who try to give a small effort to keep things period, and by espousing the virtures of an item that screams modern, I'm offended. Is this a Civil War forum, or the main page for Kampgrounds of America?

[MarkTK36thIL]

Why not toss the cooler in an officers tent to keep some food fresh if it's absoblutely needed?

I'm not knocking the product; at all at least there's an effort on some people's behalf to at least attempt to hide a cooler. The ones that go to insert x event, and leave it in the open, and don't see anything wrong with it should bother all of us.

[Jim Mayo]

If you must, have a company tent in which such things as coolers, board seats etc. that should not been seen in a CW camp, are kept. The tent can be tied closed when the public is around.

[PVT.THIB]

Why does it have to be a "progressive/campaigner" sniping this product? What makes any of these guys one things or the other? They could all just as soon be "mainstreamers" than anything else. They are just judging the product for what they percieve it to be.

[reddcorp]

Yes, I admit that from time to time a cold beer is really nice at an event and its hard to keep brewskies cool in a haversack.
So, I am wondering if the cooler cover mentioned is a cloth/canvas-type device or something else.
A few years ago I made an Army Breadbox, lined, to keep things cold. I would think that this would be passable at certain type events, as Army Breadboxes were around. It doubles as a place to sit. The canvas covers I have seen before, well, they look like a Cooler covered with canvas.
Just curious,

A.Redd

[Curt-Heinrich Schmidt]

Hallo!

There is always the wooden hardtack "box" with no bottom, as long as one is not trying to explain why a soldier has a full box to himself in his tent...

It may date back too far... but does anyone remember "Haversack Rolette?"
It was a game played after carrying a Coke or a Brewski around in one's haversack all day. The can was taken out and held at a fellow's ear or next to his face. Then the tab was popped.
Sometimes, you would win... sometimes you would lose.
I guess you had to have been there.

(Does a "covered" cooler or air mattress really fool anyone, or is that just what we like to tell ourselves? IMHO, keep the tent flaps closed and tied, and spare a Spectator another misrepresentation of the History we are trying to present.)

CHS
Former Pop! Splash!! Fizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! Mess

[militiaman1835]

I got a couple of canvas covers at Harbour Freight for $1.49 each on sale. They were bandsaw covers I believe. Jim Hensley