Montana Moose;
What a pleasure it is to hear from you. We met at the 2003 (or 4 I forget) "Three Rivers Fly In." I had the Green & Gold Astro Van. We had fun crossing one of the rivers as a group.
A friend had one of those rubber malets, and it works great. One modifacation he did was, he put a kitichen cup hook on the end, this is used for pulling the tent pegs out and hanging when not in use.
I like to use those rubbermaid totes for just about everything, such as. I have a tote that has my tent, as well as, air matress, sleeping bag, pillow, ground tarp, and an extra rain tarp, a roll of carpet to put outside of the door also a small wisp broom and dust pan, for cleaning out the tent before taking it down.

rtzden;
thanks for the link, what a great start!

Any one else have some neat ideas?

Thanks again
Jim