To be honest, for a 3" saving of travel thickness, I'd go the whole hog and go 1" all the way around. Or go 1/2" all the way and go for a 6' Stretch Hexayurt unit.
I think there's a real risk in getting to the "edge of the envelope" - it's not really about the 3" of travel space, it's about not having catastrophic failure in a 70 mph wind and having no shelter as your hexayurt gets shredded. We'd like to get that risk as close to 0 as possible, and that means 1" materials where possible until we've seriously tested the 1/2" roof at Burning Man in some kind of context where having one blow away doesn't cause massive problems. Make sense? Vinay -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://guptaoption.com/map - social project connection map http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision Gizmo Project VOIP : (USA) 775-743-1851 Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt Twitter: @hexayurt http://twitter.com/hexayurt UK Cell : +44 (0) 0795 425 3533 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 "If it doesn't fit, force it." On Apr 14, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Ian Bates wrote: > I'd have to agree... I've been the last seven years, and there has > been very little, or no... "snow load" on the roof of the > hexayurt. Mind you, I have had multiple experiences where the > structure of my roof has been challenged by the weight of > existence, and the load of bullshit that tends to rain down on the > Black Rock City. Other than that... the 1/2 inch roof will > probably be fine. If you have solid connections, and nothing more > than 50mph winds, you'll be fine. If it snows on BRC and/ or you > have 70mph winds.. you might want to stick with the 1 inch... and > figure out your transport situations. > Peace brother. > Ian > > > n Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Richard Ginn > <[email protected]> wrote: > Not much chance of a snow load at BRC, so I'd guess (emphasis on > *guess*) it would hold up OK (for random values of "OK" :) > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:17 PM, hooperstack <[email protected]> > wrote: > > How bad of an idea would it be to use 1/2" for the roof and 1" for the > walls. I'll be driving from Denver to BRC with the yurt on the roof > rack of my Subaru, and was thinking that might make it a little more > travel friendly. > > > > > > > > -- > "Tap in to your community. Support your neighborhood > brewery." -- Jilly Katz. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
