confused, do most ppl just forego insurance?

[Bob Rowlands]

OK one last point lol.

When I built my platform, I located one of the concrete support pads under the deck framing, directly under the focal point of the

yurt platform

. I embedded one of those eyes in it. Later, when the yurt was erected, I screwed fifteen of those screw eyes into the bottom of the ring. I had sewed tabs in the edge of the roof hole in the cover, and laced the cover to those eyes with rope.

In addition to anchoring the cover directly to the ring, I also rang cable through those eyes and ran that cable down and anchored it to the pad under the deck, just behind the stove. That anchored the ring to the ground. An additional benefit was it allowed me to tie wire my stove pipe in the center of the hole so it won't flop around in the wind.

Now, even with all that anchorage, that pipe vibrated so much in the wind several of the screws attaching it to the stove rattled loose and ended up laying atop the stove. Yeah I know, mind blowing overkill anchorage but I'll be damned if it didn't work as planned.