What do your stakes look like? I have the tops of mine doubled up and candy caned My stakes are essentially the same as yours except for the doubled tops. My buddy volunteered to drive the stakes and he put them in the center of the bottom struts. After a couple of days, he took it upon himself to ...

Eye bolts are not designed for shear strength. True, eyebolts don't like being loaded at 90 degrees but as long as I keep the "necks" short and put an eyebolt-anchor at each vertex (15 total) then I don't see any problem. Even taking the large surface area of a dome into consideration, the horizont...

I was doing maintenance on my shade shelter (24' 3v dome) when I noticed several struts that had been kinked & bent by driving in the rebar stakes a little too deeply. I made replacements and set about trying to figure out a way to prevent this from happening again. I don't know if anyone else has d...