crazycoloured
Well-Known Member
Iv put a field shelter up iv secured it with wooden stakes in the ground however the wind is so bad its weakened the structure any ideas on making it more secure..i dont own field so cant make anything permanent.
Making a field shelter more secure
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Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
Is it the structure of the shelter that has been damaged, or the attachment to the ground? Or both?
A lot of shelters and other wooden structures got a right battering off Doris last week.
A lot of shelters and other wooden structures got a right battering off Doris last week.
Adopter
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Living as we do on exposed moorland we have had to develop different ways to anchor wooden structures.
OH now always adds extra diagonal wooden braces to every thing and bolts frames to concrete flags on floor. We have also learnt to construct out of wooden planks that are thicker than normally used.
OH now always adds extra diagonal wooden braces to every thing and bolts frames to concrete flags on floor. We have also learnt to construct out of wooden planks that are thicker than normally used.
Tyssandi
Veteran
You could try ratchet straps onto concrete rings
stencilface
High upon a hillside
We put vents in the back of our fixed shelter so that the wind can go through the back and doesn't just storm in through the front. We did this after we lost the roof twice in bad winds many years ago and it's stayed on since.
crazycoloured
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I may have to resort to concreting the front posts in.iv added a extra pole on each side to strengthn it a bit.luckily the roof wasnt on but it ripped the trusses
CazD
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We just took one horizontal plank off the back of ours. Its a moveable field shelter and isn't fixed down. So far it hasn't moved at all.