Canopy Weights
We have an 8x8 canopy that's nice to have in the sunny West. It's a collapsable roof without tent walls. The structure is such that it can stand on four legs without guy ropes like a thing my parents had 50 years ago they called a dining fly. The dining fly had two ropes at each corner that attached to steaks in the ground. It took some work, and soft ground, to set up, but it never crossed anyone's mind that it might fly away. It was steaked down! Not so, the canopy. The wind will push it around.
We had it up covering the galley in Palisade last week and it was the first time we left it up unattended. It comes with a sturdy bag you fill with water and hang from the middle to weight it down. It works OK. There was a bit of a stiffer breeze overnight that would gently shake the teardrop. The canopy staid put, but had walked about 4 inches downwind by the end of the night.
The next day, we went into town and checked out a small festival in downtown palisade. The night's events had us paying more attention to the festival canopies as they were larger versions of what we had back at the campground. We noticed that some had 3" PVC pipes full of cement hanging at each corner to hold them steady. Since they were on asphalt or concrete, they couldn't be staked down. Others had 1 gallon pails filled with concrete that had a bolt sticking up out of the concrete. Mandy noticed this, not me. The feet of the canopies had holes through which these bolts would go. No string, no ropes, just more elaborate feet. So I built four of those today.
We had it up covering the galley in Palisade last week and it was the first time we left it up unattended. It comes with a sturdy bag you fill with water and hang from the middle to weight it down. It works OK. There was a bit of a stiffer breeze overnight that would gently shake the teardrop. The canopy staid put, but had walked about 4 inches downwind by the end of the night.
The next day, we went into town and checked out a small festival in downtown palisade. The night's events had us paying more attention to the festival canopies as they were larger versions of what we had back at the campground. We noticed that some had 3" PVC pipes full of cement hanging at each corner to hold them steady. Since they were on asphalt or concrete, they couldn't be staked down. Others had 1 gallon pails filled with concrete that had a bolt sticking up out of the concrete. Mandy noticed this, not me. The feet of the canopies had holes through which these bolts would go. No string, no ropes, just more elaborate feet. So I built four of those today.
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