Made for tension!!!

The horizontal pipes are intended to handle both compression and tensile loading, and have been fine the last couple years even without the stiff reinforcement these wire ropes provide. Although after last year particularly, the heat was high enough that I notice a small degree of bending which I didn’t expect to set in after so few uses. It is a concern for buckling down the road so I may bother to bend them the other way or revise the design slightly.Token wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:38 amOoh, now I’m curious how much flex that thing is gonna have being lots of PVC.
If I were responsible for keeping that upright for 9 days, I would try to tie and strap things such that all horizontal members have tension on them and are pulling away, while the shade cloth is holding things together and compressing them.
Why thank you, good sir!
Wish I had known where you were camped. I got to the playa with all my mule tape and had to redo all the mule tape loops for the lags because the square knots just made me SUPER nervous. I was blessed to have a rock climber in camp and we sat in the frontage on Saturday and made all new loops with some double knot thing that I felt comfortable with. I had brought 8 ratchet straps and used the rebar in the legs (as the shade was designed for) and then used two lags and loops with ratchets on the corners. I felt very secure with this anchoring.maladroit wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 4:07 pmRegarding chain links...that's what I use. It was the easiest thing in the world and I made bin of them, more than I'll need. I would just clamp a link sideways in a vise, then with a few strokes of a sharp hacksaw make a cut through one side of the link. Then with pliers twist the link along the axis of the uncut side. Super easy to do and leave a gap large enough to pull out the attached links.
Figjam. Where were you camped this year? I should have gone to find you. I ended up using ratchet straps because the mule tape and knots scared me.
My suspicion is most applications widely believed to still be better served with rebar actually could probably still be better done with lags by merely duct-taping chain to whatever the structure is in the same fashion people usually do with rebar. Sure little additional things may have to be done for structures that depend on rebar having a modicum of bending strength...but the rebar doesn’t really provide that much in the first place in most of the constructs I see.
I used 1/2 by 16 inch Lags to secure my flat top shade and a kodiak. Considered overkill by some, but I slept better knowing I had deep playa penetration. I used a DeWalt 20 volt cordless. Only one light on one battery was used - there are three. That was to drive them all in and remove, plus my campmate borrowed it to secure our petrol container.
"Overkill?"
Everybody sleeps better afterwards...
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I did provide you a link in the post above directly to the product page.