Dances with Mice
05-02-2005, 13:55
I saw an idea somewhere on this site, and thought it was in this forum but I guess not, about using plastic stakes made to hold down landscape fabric.
Seemed like a good idea.
So I went to the Home Depot and looked in the landscape fabric area. There were large black plastic stakes for landscape fabrics, I bought a couple of them. There were also smaller green stakes used to hold down drip hoses - the green stakes had ridges on the portion that would go into the ground and a wide, flat notch built to hold a hose in place. They were cheap and much lighter than the black stakes. I bought 8 of those to hold down my 8 X 10 fly.
Report: The black plastic stakes are great. Lightweight, seem indestructible, they never pulled out. I used them for the side tie-outs of the HH.
The green irrigation hose stakes suck! I broke one per day, coming back with 3 of the 8 I started with. I always found somewhere to tie off the tarp, of course, but I didn't appreciate carrying out all those broken stakes.
By the end of the trip I was getting pretty creative...
Seemed like a good idea.
So I went to the Home Depot and looked in the landscape fabric area. There were large black plastic stakes for landscape fabrics, I bought a couple of them. There were also smaller green stakes used to hold down drip hoses - the green stakes had ridges on the portion that would go into the ground and a wide, flat notch built to hold a hose in place. They were cheap and much lighter than the black stakes. I bought 8 of those to hold down my 8 X 10 fly.
Report: The black plastic stakes are great. Lightweight, seem indestructible, they never pulled out. I used them for the side tie-outs of the HH.
The green irrigation hose stakes suck! I broke one per day, coming back with 3 of the 8 I started with. I always found somewhere to tie off the tarp, of course, but I didn't appreciate carrying out all those broken stakes.
By the end of the trip I was getting pretty creative...