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re: which is best: tipi or yurt???
20 feb 2003
anthony matonak wrote:
>puncturevine wrote:
>> i'm looking for a decent portable structure for weekends and some
>> summer vacation time now and then on some remote property...
>you might also wish to consider geodesic dome tents. you don't mention
>how portable the structure needs to be. many of these larger yurts and
>tipi's can be put up with a good crew in a day or two but many folks
>simply leave them up for years at a time. if you are looking for a
>quickly constructed shelter that you can leave in place for years then
>a tent may not be the best design. you might do better with some kind
>of steel, fiberglass, strawbale or other such structure...
how about a plastic film greenhouse? solar heated, of course. about $1,000
for a 20'x96' structure that goes up in a couple of days. one of mine just
completely collapsed under 20" of snow, making an interesting objet d'art,
but that doesn't happen often. the metal pipe hoops usually buckle before
the plastic gives way.
nick
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