I have used these for staking various structures down. All the advantages
of rebar, and you don't have to bend em!
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On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Chris Phoenix wrote:
I agree with Cody; nothing is overkill for the Playa.
I lost a tent at BM08. I staked it down to the ground and left it
flat, with nothing in it, and a couple of big rocks on top.
A dust devil went right over it.
When I came back to camp, I found the tent stakes and the rocks. Each
stake had little bits of cloth still attached; the tent itself had
failed.
Someone took video of the tent flying away. It was a little speck in
the air as it cleared the MOOP fence...
Ironically, most of the stakes were the little wire ones that came
with the tent. I had put in one rebar stake, just to be sure it
couldn't possibly blow away. The little wire stakes stayed in the
ground... that time... but I suspect they would've pulled out if the
tent fabric had held.
Chris
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Cody Firestone <[email protected]> wrote:
couple of comments:
depending on the year you went, everything could seem like over kill. it's
like that.
last year was very nice, mild, no big wind, etc.
in 2008 we had a 55 mph dust storm so strong you couldn't even ride a bike.
fortunatly it happened during pre-build. if during the main event, it would
have been a huge wipeout for peeps. as is was tents were flying, stuff got
uprooted, etc.
we ALWAYS go with overkill... it pays off in the end. no one want to chase
a haxayurt flying or rolling thru the Playa.
black Rock Desert is unlike anywhere else. 105 degress to 70 in an hour,
winds rom zero to 45 mph in minutes, rain.. yes RAIN! even double and
triple rainbows..... there has even been snow before.
The other advantage of the 18 inch rebar with eyes is that you can use them
to anchor shade over you hexayurt. no matter what kind of structure you
build for shelter, you also need some shade over it to help keep off the
solar direct raidation. it can be VERY strong.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Icarus <[email protected]> wrote:
So I wanted some feedback since this is just and idea. I am very
familiar with hard desert landscape, since I used to have a part-time
job pounding in real estate directional signs on the weekend in the
Mojave desert. We used heavy duty steel for that, it it could still
bend. What made the signs very hard to go in the ground was when the
ends were dull, from just getting old. When the signs were fresh, they
would have very sharp ends, and they made a HUGE difference.
My first year at Burning Man I used 12" re-bar for a tent, and it was
overkill. I have the same feelings about the hexayurt as well.
I was thinking about using these pegs...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AV3STS/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00286KSVU&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1CRN14XEDD7P2T10M3JV
but 24 of them, instead of 12.
I would create a "hoop", and run the hoop through the pvc pipe/tape,
through two of those pegs, and tie it together.
That way, I have 20" of pegs holding my hexayurt down, and it seems
they would go in and pull up much easier than re-bar. Plus they are
cheap.
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