Excellent points, Mark. We also wrapped ours in a tarp tightly before sandwiching it between the ply. We used another small piece of ply to make a nose for it to improve aerodynamics and help with gas miliage. Good luck with your yurting everyone.
Spiral On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Mark Newell <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Toyota Previa with yakima racks and have transported the yurt > several times this way. I haven't sandwiched the top and bottom as > suggested below, but do wrap it in a tarp real tight and do find a small > piece of ply help prevent straps from crushing the edges where I strap the > stack to the racks. Last year I made simple wedge shaped 'nose' for my yurt > stack, to improve the aerodynamics of dragging 1'+ tall stack on my roof. > It really worked great. > > lucky > > On 7/1/2010 7:45 AM, Spiral Syzygy wrote: >> >> Our 8ft fit just nicely on top of a Sprinter. It was 4 x 8 all around. >> Sandwiched between plywood and held tight with ratchet straps. >> >> Good luck with your yurting! >> >> Spiral >> >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Scott Geller<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> You can transport an 8 ft yurt on the roof of a VW van-brace top& bottom >>> with plywood. Use 6” tape......get extra, don’t be cheap. You can use 3” >>> aluminized tape on the edges. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> > -- 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.
