Hi all, Thanks for the interest, just wanted to let everybody know the yurt is sold.
Have a great burn! -T On Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:07:13 PM UTC-7, Tom Brown wrote: > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hexayurt/-/TXT8OqEtZXwJ. 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.
