Dan R-M,
Sorry for your hardship. Don't let one bad experience stop you from moving onward and upward. Yurts are great. Overall I think they do very well in the wind. Lessons learned will help you and others to improve on old designs and the new ones to come.
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Originally Posted by Marshall Eppley
The one thing i took note of is the wall slats look a bit small and i would think there would be alot more of them.
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I agree with the under size lattice and that there should be more of them. I use 160 - 3/4" X 1-1/2" X 6' on a 20' yurt wall.
We had a severe wind storm December of 2011 with winds of 100 mph. This happened while I was out of town and not able to tend to my yurts or see first hand exactly how they reacted to this kind of wind. It blew down a lot of trees and my yurt stood up to the torture. However I did learn a few things.
It is critically important to have solid connections at the rafter to the the hub and rafter to walls. The top and side canvas must also be securely fastened. The wind pressure causes the canvas to inflate and deflate rapidly as I have learned during lesser wind storms.
Now if a tree like the ones shown in the photo below came down on top of you then all bets are off.
Quote from our local paper
"Strong wind gusts of up to 100 mph that whipped through the Sierra on Thursday, December 1st left a swath of damage in their wake. Three separate fires burned about 250 acres before being contained December 2nd – downed trees, power outages and serious damage to numerous homes were a result of the intense wind gusts.
Much of the damage was concentrated in the small foothill community of Twain Harte, CA where homes are built around Pines, Cedars and Oak Trees. The trees are continuously trimmed and unhealthy trees are quickly removed, the unusually strong wind gusts uprooted healthy trees causing them to fall on structures around them."
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