A guy in kidsville showed me this trick. worked great on rebar that was vertical, not so easy on the angled pieces but they came out fine with vice grips. I had 2 quest pop-up shelters that held up fine. Used 3/8 rebar thru the footpads, topped with 3/4 emt pipe duct taped to the legs to add streng...

I brought a $45 fiberglass-pole tent at a drug store... staked it to the ground with rebar in one corner and cheap 6" wire stakes in the other corners (I was going to go back and replace them with rebar later). Then the Monday dust storm came up, so I left it on the ground without even trying to put...

Use a long strap (the long half of a tie-down strap works well). Fasten one end to the rebar. (You can use a lark's head knot if the rebar isn't looped at the top.) Run the strap high on the inside of your leg (e.g. your right leg), then wrap it around your (e.g. right) thigh, run it behind you low ...

There's an alternative to canned and fresh... Trader Joes sells many different flavors of Indian food in shelf-stable plastic/foil packages. Some of it's a bit spicy, so make sure you like it before you try to live on it for a week, but I loved it. They also sell various precooked rice dishes. I liv...