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by vinaych_22 » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:55 am
Thanks everyone for the replies
@BBadger,
1) I like the idea of drilling the hole in the middle. Does this have any advantage other than reducing the number of lagscrews I need to use? My feeling is that it would be less rigid which I think is a good thing. It doesnt have holes right now, so I need to drill them myself.
2) I think I am going to stick with smaller tarps. I havent heard of any significant negatives of using the smaller tarps. I know it will have more gaps than if I had used big tarps. But I dont want to run into the flapping issue again. It was terrifying!!
3) I like the idea of walls.. Maybe we can put some tables/hammocks right next to these walls to discourage people from walking through the "walls"
@pappachuck, I dont know about that. I dont want to change our entire design now. We already have most of the parts for the flat roof structure
@Papa Bear,
We did. The foot pad has three holes and we put the lag screw in only one. So it was kind of imbalanced and the wind pushed it. The only way it could react to the wind was by twisting around the lag screw and it did.
re:center legs, that was my original idea. I might still do it for some of the legs. I also like @Bbadger's idea of making some virtual walls. If I can do that, I will do that.
@sparr,
Our kodiak tents are 10X10 and we need the shade structure portions to be larger than that. Otherwise it would be a pain to setup the tent, thats the reason we went with 10X12 AND we knew that blackrock hardware sells shade structures with that aspect ratio and they work. Now we are stuck with this aspect ratio because we already bought parts for this.
@DoctorIknow
I did find 6" bungees on ysbw and am ordering some. re: raising the roof, I dont know how hard it would be to attach the tarp after setting up the legs. Wind will make it hard no? But I might have to do this considering the number of early entry passes we get. We might not have enough people to support all the legs at once.