My field shelter has blown away!

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DivaRosa

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Iam so gutted! I had a lovely new 20ft x 10ft field shelter put up less than a month ago. It has been mega windy here all day and when I got up this afternoon, (I work nights, I am not really that lazy), and went out to check the nags, the field looked suspiciously empty. The bluddy thing had blown up an 8ft vertical bank, thru the fencing, thru my outdoor arena wrecking the post and rail on both sides, and is now lying like a pile of firewood in my garden! Great! Luckily the horses were in a different field but I am not a happy bunny! It had been anchored by breeze block plus 2 metal stakes driven into the ground by the way! The moral of the story is - don't buy a house on top of a windy hill in scotland!!!
 
Oh no, how awful
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We lost the roof off our old field shelter a week after it had been erected. The guys who put it up securely anchored the walls but for some strange reason hadn't thought to tie down the roof.

The new roof stayed firm but leaked like a colander
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. They were both felt roofs. New stables (for this winter) will have proper onduline roof which will be well tied down.

We are in prob one ot the most windy parts of Scotland but have not been hit by today's winds, so it's been a bit surreal reading everyone's posts complaining about the wind!!
 
I know! I dread to think what could have happen if my 3yr old daughter had been out there! She would have been killed!
 
It's always windy where we are. Just never though it would be strong enough to do that kind of damage! Think we'll give up on the idea of a mobile field shelter. Mite go down the route of getting planning for a permenant structure. Where bouts in scotland are you?
 
I think it's completely dead. Looks like kindling! I have contacted the company who made it and I'm gonna email them some pics to see if they will do anything. In my opinion, if it can blow away even tho anchored down, it's not fit for purpose. And thank god my horses weren't in it! Have to contact my home insurance too to see if it's covered.
 
ours did this last year- it had been in place for 3 years with no issue but this day it obviously just got lifted by a freak gust of wind at just the right angle.

we managed to pull ours back with a tractor and 4x4 (it stopped in the hedge against a main road!).
it was a bit skewif but totally safe and we learnt our lesson and staked it into the ground!
 
We have this problem. I gave up but my neighbours solved it by taking out the top three boards to leave a gap for the wind to get through. So instead of getting trapped and lifting or flipping the shelter the air can escape through the gap. It still gives enough shelter.
 
How awful.

My field shelter came with a storm flap at the back - it is a very thick plastic flap weighted down with wooden batons. I put the flap up in summer to aid air flow but it is down in winter.
 
im so sorry to hear about your field shelter.
thank god your horses were not in there. a good friend of mine lost her horse a few years ago in a similar accident. fortunately for Marius, I was driving past her field like i did every morning at 5am, and thought something wasnt right so pulled over, found the field shelter in pieces with him lying under part of the wall.
unfortunately it had smashed his leg badly and had to be PTS.
 
Hi,
I work for a company that guarantees against any wind damage. They've asked me to find people that have suffered from damaged field shelters.
please do let me know your stories and pictures

all ( with exception of my employer) mobile field shelter suppliers know that field shelters blow over but cut costs by not including ground anchors.

see www.MobileFieldShelter.co.uk , it might help you.
 
Mobile field shelter said:
Hi,
I work for a company that guarantees against any wind damage. They've asked me to find people that have suffered from damaged field shelters.
please do let me know your stories and pictures

all ( with exception of my employer) mobile field shelter suppliers know that field shelters blow over but cut costs by not including ground anchors.

see www.MobileFieldShelter.co.uk , it might help you.
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This thread is 4 years old :confused:

Your company is NOT the only one that prevents shelters 'falling over' ;)
 
This happened to me. We had just had the planning come through for the stables, and a friend wanted to buy the field shelter. her OH had even agreed to dismantle it and erect it for her.

Got a call from another friend to say there was a problem. Couldnt believe my eyes !! The shelter was in absolute bits. Apparently it had been blown into the air and thrown back down.

Similar end to yours Divarose, in that it was only fit for fire wood.

Crikey, didnt realise thread was 4 years old !
 
I have found that the mobile field shelters with heavy galvanised runners don't budge in the wind. We have 4 of various sizes with Onduline roofs. Before they were built I asked the supplier to board the roofs before applying the Onduline. That has given all the shelters additional weight. I've also had a couple of 3' x 3' openings cut into the sides. In winter I can close those windows with sheets of 4mm polycarbonate. Our farm is on the side of a very windy valley and all but one of the shelters face north.

OP, is any part of your shelter salvageable?
 
Did not know you could find such old threads!!

Losing buildings goes with living on a hill, we have learnt the hard way to anchor everything. Summer house ended up on top of an oak one christmas eve, so now is held down all winter by steel ropes across top! Lost the greenhouse as it blew past the house one morning, so my field shelter is an old stone built barn and that has stood for over 100 years!

Stables pinned to ground with huge metal rods concreted in!
 
RutlandH2O said:
I have found that the mobile field shelters with heavy galvanised runners don't budge in the wind. We have 4 of various sizes with Onduline roofs. Before they were built I asked the supplier to board the roofs before applying the Onduline. That has given all the shelters additional weight. I've also had a couple of 3' x 3' openings cut into the sides. In winter I can close those windows with sheets of 4mm polycarbonate. Our farm is on the side of a very windy valley and all but one of the shelters face north.

OP, is any part of your shelter salvageable?
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Ops shelter blew away 4 years ago - see date of post!!! If she didn't salvage it then, it will be beetle food by now..
 
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