Word to the wise - shovel off your roof!

[Bob Carriere]

We are meticulous....correction Rob Clarke has been meticulous at raking the snow off our shelters for most of the Winter....

Installing a sacrificial tarp over the original shelter tarp will extend the U V protection.

Installing your sacrificail tarp upside down with the black side up which is also shiny and smoother helpd the JON S. prevailing wind effect.

Finally installing cheap one inch cargo strap in two places between each tube helps tremendously...... cheaper on sale and cheaper that replacing the Winter shelters.

Another 3 weeks and we should be out of this risk period.

Bob

[chris vickery]

Garage in a box or as I like to refer to them POS in a box... Grrr
I learned very quickly at my home that there is no use for these here.
Where I live we always have some sort of wind as our lot sits atop one of the higher elevations in the area.
My first attemp at one of these was when I first moved up here about 8 years ago.
I followed all of the instructions carefully and even lag bolted the legs into
2x8s which also had bags of concrete mix placed on them.
My garage in a box lasted all of 24 hours. Believe it or not, when I came home, all my lawn and garden stuff was sitting in a nice pile which used to be inside my tent. I thought someone had stolen it.
I searched and found my garage all right; it was ripped and torn to shreds and all the frame work mangled about 300 yards in the back 40 from where it once stood.
Guess I should have learned when the boys trampoline suffered the same fate earlier.
My garage sale canopies also met the same demise. Set up on Friday night and Saturday morning- gone. Never did find where it ended up.
So, in the end I learned that here, unless it is made of concrete, wood and steel it does not get erected.

[Scott Bentley]

Originally Posted by chris vickery

Garage in a box or as I like to refer to them POS in a box... Grrr
I learned very quickly at my home that there is no use for these here.
Where I live we always have some sort of wind as our lot sits atop one of the higher elevations in the area.
My first attemp at one of these was when I first moved up here about 8 years ago.
I followed all of the instructions carefully and even lag bolted the legs into
2x8s which also had bags of concrete mix placed on them.
My garage in a box lasted all of 24 hours. Believe it or not, when I came home, all my lawn and garden stuff was sitting in a nice pile which used to be inside my tent. I thought someone had stolen it.
I searched and found my garage all right; it was ripped and torn to shreds and all the frame work mangled about 300 yards in the back 40 from where it once stood.
Guess I should have learned when the boys trampoline suffered the same fate earlier.
My garage sale canopies also met the same demise. Set up on Friday night and Saturday morning- gone. Never did find where it ended up.
So, in the end I learned that here, unless it is made of concrete, wood and steel it does not get erected.

Several municipalities i've lived in over the years actually specifically forbid these "Montreal Garages" in the bylaws for that exact reason. The way it was explained to me was that the shelters often get blown onto roads, into neighbours cars, etc.

I've got a nice photo somewhere of a Command Post complete with tables and chairs, 100 cupper coffee maker, computers and printer, map boards, the whole nine yards sitting in the middle of a field with the four sections of modular tentage off in the treeline. Apparently the sandbags alone weren't "good enough"

[Bob Carriere]

Our 6 shelters are used primarily to store complete vehicles plus a whole bunch of other things but always a complete CMP.

We tie ropes from the centre ridge of the shelter to the truck bumpers, frame, cabs, etc .......according to some neighbors they have seen them dance off the ground and even displace the railroad ties we use as ballast but they have never flown away....yet.

Bob

[chris vickery]

As I said to my wife, if it needs to be temporary it will be a sea can from now on.
Bob, I am glad you guys have had some luck but of course when lashed to a 8000lb truck one would expect it to stay put.
On that note, seems like a lot of time is invested by your crew maintaining said tentage during the winter months

[rob love]

Those two fellows in Toronto had the right idea: Go underground.

[motto]

If going below ground. Before you start, make sure you have the drainage sorted and an accurate fix on the water table.
A high shed is a dry shed.

David