03-31-2015, 09:04 AM
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Manufacturer Representative
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Alexandria, ON, Canada
Posts: 74
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Re: First time yurt builder with question...
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Originally Posted by Bob Rowlands
Off topic comment. Regardless of what you may have read about yurts being 'good in wind', I highly reccommend you anchor your yurt to the ground. .
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traditional Mongolian yurts are good in wind because they've been shaped to a very aerodynamic form over hundreds of years. By rasing walls and roof pitch, one looses a little of this aerodynamic quality.
Mongolians do not anchor their yurts, not to "harm the earth". However, above a certain wind speed, the yurts tend to be "sucked" in the air (Bernouilli effect, like on the airplane wing). Mongolians attach a big stone (or an old engine block nowadays;-) to a rope hanging from the toono (dome). It does the trick mostly, although you see also the type of anchoring mentionned by Bob (with stones used instead of stakes).
Back to topic: They woudl never cover the dome completely, as it regulates air, ventilation and allows the stove pipe out and light in.... but why not in a camping yurt?
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