Hi Julie, The front is wood because it provides a rigid anchor for the tape tension ring. My concern about having a tall door design has been that the more or less circular tape tension ring of the H12 is broken by the need to go above the door, so there's not really any structural integrity supplied by the tension ring, since it has leeway to expand. With the wood door frame I anchor the tension ring at each end and the tension ring provides just as much structural integrity as in the basic design.
Tripod and I camped in one of the very few hexayurts on playa in 2007, and I believe we had early entry... there was a TERRIBLE wind/dust storm shortly after we set up our hexayurt on Sunday morning for the first time that either of us had ever been in one. Having the hexayurt jump about and strain against the rope tie-downs gave us a lot of respect for the design, as well as letting us know how close we were to losing our shelter for the week. A bad tie-down, weak seam tape, or any little flaw could have resulted in that yurt exploding into pieces... once the wind got inside it, it would have been toast. But it worked great. Granted, the last few burns have been pretty mild... and wind storms are attenuated significantly once the city gets built up a little bit and there are a lot of other people's structures to break the wind. I've seen some really shoddy hexayurt builds out on the playa... slack bungee tie-downs come to mind. Luckily I have yet to see a catastrophic failure out there, but if the right storm hits, I expect it to happen. Having said that, my yurt is definitely over-engineered... the door frame portion alone probably weighs 50 pounds or more with all the steel, fiberglass, plywood, and maple. I'm not going to the burn this year for a few reasons so I'm trying to find a good home for it. Ideally I would love to set it up on someone's property and cover it with stucco or concrete to make a permanent building out of it, but I asked around and couldn't find anybody willing to do that. So I'm trying to sell it here. The tall door scheme that I came up with (I don't think it's identical to the H13) is GREAT in terms of extra headroom and convenience, but it's a little bit trickier to assemble and transport. The 2" thick walls are probably overkill, but it DOES keep things nice and cool inside. I'm hoping circumstances will change enough that I can go to the Burn next year... if so I'll be investigating new materials and designs. I know Tripod has been working on a new design but I don't think it's ready for release yet. -Tommy On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Julia Nelson-Gal <[email protected]>wrote: > Impressive front. Can you tell me why you did the reinforcement with > wood. We are making an H13 now out of Rmax. I'm questioning its > stability. I thought this design just came out last year, but you have > used it for 5! Thanks for the info. Julie > > > On Saturday, July 21, 2012 3:01:18 PM UTC-7, Tom Brown wrote: >> >> Hello hexayurters... I am looking to sell my "tall door" hexayurt shown >> in the attached picture. I live in San Jose. The yurt has been to five >> burns but has held up very well -- I reinforced all edges with 2-part >> polyurethane resin when I built it. Has a coat or two of silver metallic >> paint on the outside and white paint on the inside. The tall door system is >> a little tricky so if you want to convert it to a normal H12 I have a few >> extra 2" R-max panels I will include for free. The whole thing is made from >> 2" R-max except the front, which is a heavy combination of R-max, plywood, >> and metal. $300 includes three rolls of 4" bi-directional filament tape. >> Email me if interested. >> >> https://www.facebook.com/**photo.php?fbid=433638069819&** >> set=a.433637574819.205551.**657859819&type=1&theater<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=433638069819&set=a.433637574819.205551.657859819&type=1&theater> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hexayurt/-/kMVgk5nsaZIJ. > > 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.
