PE - Ropes or not to rope!

[valkyrie@direct.ca]

Having just build a yurt...after getting rid of my viking pavilion..I am a 
great backer of them... I love
mine...and no ropes & period.....I know I to worry about guy lines...having 
almost killed myself in the
dark..for want of ropes being marked.  Relurking now :)

Cerridwen

P.S..  I would like a me to about the chair design as well

>Well it seems that this was a issue about ropes and not ropes that has 
>come up on the list before. Being a regional Chirurgeon I think about 
>peoples safety. I do not like
>tents with out ropes and just staked to ground. I do not promote this in 
>any tent maker. We need to think safety. I know some people that have had 
>a lot of happiness in a
>no rope tent. I have also heard a lot of people telling that there tent 
>fell over due to the ground being over soaked and the stakes didn't stay 
>due to high winds. The
>spoke wheel design is not yet proven to be documentable. If any one has 
>documentation please let us know where it is we have been trying to get 
>real documentation for a
>long time but you have to see the actual frame. They look great they are 
>very nice looking but they are not period.
>The reason I say this is because I don't want people to get hurt. there is 
>a lot of new people on the list and they need to know the differences. If 
>you make a spoke wheel
>tent please they are top heavy and they can come down. You cannot stop a 
>heavy canvas tent weighting about three or four hundred pounds wet! From 
>falling and you do not
>know who it will fall into. So please make sure it is roped down. Remember 
>we camp with a lot of great people in our lands and I don't think you want 
>anyone to get hurt so
>please be safe.
>Marguerite
>Off of my soap box now. Thank you for reading.
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