Posted by Bill VA on May 21, 2015 at 06:31:35 from (76.3.243.86):
Adding a little capacity to the hay storage and a few carport (for lack of a better word) questions.
I've got a 20w x 30l x 10h ft dome shaped building frame I am going to put up to store some hay and maybe an implement. The shelter was designed for use with a vinyl type cover, not unlike a large tarp.
On each side of this thing is a tube running the length of it, with holes every 3 or 4 ft for anchors - so I'm considering my options.
One of my thoughts was to dig post holes, fill with concrete and use a lag bolt to secure the frame at each anchor point. The lag bolt is threaded and if I ever needed to move the building, I could unscrew it from the bolts. I would put the lag bolts in when I pour the concrete.
The other option is to cut some rebar, weld a cap on it and drive them into the ground holding the shelter in place.
Depth: I can see a rebar anchor being 24 or more inches. If I use a post hole filled with concrete, the lag bolt could only go down about 12 inches and the question is - how deep (if at all) should the post hole/concrete go beyond the lag bolt? Somehow I think that even with a shallow concrete fill, the vinyl or whatever straps I'm using to hold it down would give way before the frame with cover would fly away in a hard wind storm?
BTW - the shelter didn't come with a vinyl cover, so I ordered a used bill board sign to cover this thing. Haven't unpacked it yet, but if it says "Mail Pouch Tobacco" on it, I'm turning that part out..... LOL!
Any tips, tricks and advice for anchoring this shelter are much appreciated.
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