Contingent Equipment

Equipment List

This is not designed to be an exhaustive list.  If you think something is missing please bring it

SHELTER

  • Patrol AND Store tents, poles, pegs, guys. Fly’s where necessary.
  • Dining/kitchen shelter, poles, pegs guys. 
  • Rest tent (sick bay tent).
  • Fire Extinguishers for all cooking tents.  Please ensure they have been recently checked.
  • A Fire extinguisher or water bucket for each tent being used.
  • Spare bedding (Sleeping Bags and blankets)
  • Storm lashings for all tents

CAMP TOOLS

  • Water heating system.
  • Hammer, nails, pliers, and mallet.
  • Clothesline.
  • Tables and benches.
  • First Aid Kit recently reviewed
  • Camp fencing system.

LIGHTING

  • Gas, electrical or solar lighting systems.  Please avoid lights that use liquid or solid fuels

FOOD STORAGE

  • Food containers.
  • Cold storage facility such as chilly bins or gas fridges
  • Cooling source such as salt ice.  Salt ice is available at the QM store for replenishment.
  • Plastic bags, plastic wraps.
  • Aluminium foil, food boxes.

FOOD PREPARATION

  • Appropriate cooking stoves and a surface appropriate for gas stoves to be lit on.
  • Table tops and table covering.
  • Serving bowls and plates.
  • Salt and Pepper Shakers, sugar, sauce, jam and butter containers.
  • Cooking utensils, e.g. billies, pots, pans, camp ovens, teapot, cooking spoons and ladles.
  • Potato peelers, can openers, meat and bread knives, egg beater or whisk. Measuring spoons, cups and jugs and Cutting boards. Matches or lighters.
  • Hand sanitizer.

CLEANING GEAR

  • Wash basins and water buckets.
  • Portable waste water disposal system that will allow you to take waste water to the communal grease pit.
  • Dish mops/cloths, scourers, poll pads and scrubbing brushes.
  • Clothes pegs, soap, detergent, disinfectant and hand sanitizer. 
  • 2 Rubbish bins with sealable lids – one for food scraps, one for general rubbish
  • A way to wash clothes
  • Lines for drying clothes and towels

A personal kit list can be found here