WTS FS Dana Design Terraframe Backpack

[bradmacmt]

Hi, for sale the much renowned, hard to find, Dana Design Terraframe backpack. Very lightly used.

This is a size Regular with a size Medium Hipbelt. I'm 5'10" and fairly long in the torso and it fits me with the load lifters at about 25*. I think anyone 5'10" or less would be a good match to this size.

6,100 cubic inch capacity (100 liters).

The fabric coatings are perfect (no delamination).

Top Pocket is detachable to act as a fanny pack.

This is a load carrying beast!

$189.00 $165.00 Shipped Paypal F&F (otherwise add 3%), Venmo, or USPS MO.

First "I'll Take It" followed with a PM for payment details gets it.

Thanks ~ Brad

 

[coloradoan]

Awesome pack!

 

[Wrench]

I have the same one in black and it's the most underrated meat hauler today. That is a very good condition one to boot.

 

[actionshooter]

Wow! That thing is in Awesome shape! One of the best heavy load packs ever made.

 

[bradmacmt]

Thanks Gentlemen - PRICE LOWERED

 

[bradmacmt]

Below is a quote from a longtime user in Alaska on another forum where I have the pack for sale:

Phooey, this is about a month too late. Would have bought this for my oldest as his forever hunting pack. Bump for the final word in heavy long-haul packs.

I've hunted a LOT with a long/green version of this pack since the early 2000s. You didn't ask for marketing help, Brad, but here are some plugs:

The bag detaches from the frame. I've used mine bag-less to carry moose quarters, canoes, and a pro pioneer raft. With a canoe, tie two short loops of rope (4" to 6" diameter loop) around the canoe yoke, and slip those loops over the horns of the frame. You can carry an 85lb canoe a LONG ways this way. This is the final word for portaging...putting the same canoe yoke across your shoulders rather than hanging it on a packframe is misery, BTDT.

The bag is huge. The bottom compartment will hold the bulkiest reasonable backpacking sleeping bag, sideways. A lower-volume sleeping bag will fit along with your tent/tarp fly, and your inflatable pad in the lower compartment if you're otherwise cubed out with meat (or your young kids' comfort gear), BTDT.

The bag is practical. Rifle butts sit in mesh side pocket, and the two side compression straps secure it. When hunting with two youngsters, I've carried two rifles on the pack while going from A to B...kids can unclip the straps and deploy the rifle while you still wear the pack. Way more comfortable for long haul than a sling button or a gunbearer. You can hunt a long ways in if you keep those 8lbs off your kids' packs. The two back pockets are fantastic for your insulation layers if you have the rest cubed out with meat. The top lid has two compartments...top one for convenience and the bottom one for stuff you need to stay with you but don't need to constantly access.

The volume of the main bag can be reduced and repositioned to a better (higher) location by sucking in the sleeping bag compartment. Internal straps are supplied for this. Good for reducing to daypack volume or shorter duration backpack trips.

There's an awful lot to like...it loads, organizes and carries easily with about any load volume, without the 20-strap circus that is life with Kifaru.

 

[Wrench]

I carried last year's Idaho mule deer out with the exact same pack. They are not great for timber sneaking because of the frame size (which is smaller than just about every other external frame)......but when you know moving a load is the job, it's superior to everything else I have used. I qualify that by saying that I have packed meat on kifaru, stone glacier, mystery ranch, badlands, and a heap of cheap frames.