I was thinking over my plans, and thinking of what would happen if one corner of my halo came un-staked. Then I thought, why not have two independently staked halos? My yurt is square, which simplifies this idea, but I feel like it could be applicable to anything.
For a hexayurt, you could do three halos, each with two stakes on opposite sides. That way if any one point fails, you still have something holding your yurt down at full tension. Alternatively, you could do two halos - one with two stakes, and the other with four. You still have redundancy, but less rope. Am I being overly paranoid? I don't feel like this is significantly extra work for significant improvement in redundancy. I'm still not sure what exactly I want to use for stakes. I'm tempted to use four commercial 24"x1" single head tent stakes, like this: http://www.gettent.com/tents/24-x-1-single-head-tent-stake.asp Does that sound adequate for a H8 yurt (made out of 8 8'x4' panels, same parts as a H12 hexayurt, but four sides instead of six). Model of my yurt again: http://www.chaosreigns.com/burningman/h8yurt2.jpg.html (mattress and foot locker to scale) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
