nice! great to have some numbers behind this, thank you. And for the details of the ladder install. For lagging into the playa/plywood, are you drillin straight through the ladder feet? Think 3/8" x 18" lags are enough for this?

How about a ladder? Interesting idea, but looks like the pic didn't attach, could you try again or PM it to me? EDIT: Nevermind, just showed up. What are you doing to anchor the ladder? Jeez, no one wants to say it … Yeah, the original drawings … that’s a stupid idea. All kinds of trouble, blood an...

That does sound like it'd be very stable but might end up being more of a footprint than I can add to the camp layout. Plus a lot more hardware, but maybe that's what it takes to do it right. How would you go about affixing the panel to the pole in each corner? Forgot to mention in the original post...

Trying to figure out options for mounting my 200W solar panel (65” x 26”, 27lb) in a somewhat crowded theme camp. I’ve got a monkey hut but seems like a bad idea to try to mount to that. My current hairbrained idea is to get an 8’ x 1 5/8” chain-link fence post and affix it to playa using a canopy f...

In the interest of giving back I'm gonna piss in the lag screw pond here with my monkey hut solution which worked for me this year (first big burn,yay). I got 24" long 1/2" lag screws then cut 10-12" sections of 1/2" PVC "sleeves" to put around the top half of the lag screws. Below the PVC I put so...