Snow Covered Spits

[FI Spyder]

While the Spider is warm in the garage it is cold... bitter cold.
-1C(30.2F). It has snowed for last two days. (See Below). Don't cry for me Argentia (or Austalia) as the north half of the island (Campbell River) has five times the snow. Tuesday we'll have the Pinapple Express from Hawaii with the forecast of 14C (57F) and it will be all gone.

[stevie_a]

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<font size="4"><font color="green"><i>If it's not broke don't fix it.</i></font id="green"></font id="size4">

[Rich in Vancouver]

I had my wedge out in that mess today.
If the city had plowed the roads it would have been OK
in spite of not having snow tires, but with 4" of snow on top of a layer of ice the poor car didn't stand a chance. I got about a kilometre from home then turned around and brought er home.
Now we are getting heavy rain so things should be navigable by morning.
Sheesh!

Richard

1975 TR7 ACL764U

[RJS]

This reminds my why I moved to Arizona from Wyoming. I have seen plenty of the white stuff in my lifetime.

Rob

[Launie]

Spyder, I have a carport "tent" like that too. It's full of junk, including spare TR7 parts.

With the wet snow the roof sags pretty bad and I keep scraping it off to keep it from collapsing. Annoying. Don't you find that problem?

I put some OSB (chipboard) sheeting under the tarp roof of it two days ago. It kept the roof from sagging, but with the added weight (8 inches snow, OSB, and then rain soaking into the snow), the whole thing was leaning a bit toward the tr7 on stands in the driveway. Now that has me truly worried!

So what's the solution? By the time I finish bracing the whole thing, I'll have built a garage inside the tent!

Yes, the 8 inches of snow here was washed away by the heavy rain all night. (I'm in Sooke). A relief.

Launie

[FI Spyder]

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Spyder, I have a carport "tent" like that too. It's full of junk, including spare TR7 parts.

With the wet snow the roof sags pretty bad and I keep scraping it off to keep it from collapsing. Annoying. Don't you find that problem?

So what's the solution? By the time I finish bracing the whole thing, I'll have built a garage inside the tent!

Launie
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I thought I could build my own cheaper than but one (didn't quite turn out that way.) I used plumbing pipe for the frame and made the cross pieces out of different sized pipe so they would slide in each other so the wideth would be adjustable. It is reinforced by 1x3 treated lumber diagonally attached with chain link fencing attaching hardware. I had made a roof out of ABS pipe that I bowed and attached with large ties but in it's first winter two years ago it broke under the weight of the second day of snow. (the snow here is very wet and heavy). I had forgotten to shake off the first day's snow. So in the summer I made an A frame of 2x2 (in two halves for easy installation) and attached runners of strips of plywood (light weight) to support the tarp. The roof is all screwed and supports are all bolted so theoretically I could dismantle it and reassemble it if I needed. It lasted through our three winter storms (the fourth missed us) last year despite the fact on of our trees didn't as one up rooted and fell on our neigbours house cracking his roof ridge and knocking out the power for three days. (It had snowed (wet), frozen, then high winds came up causing many millions of dollars of damage and hundreds of power outages across the province.) If it can go through that I'm pretty confident it will stand up to whatever we get.

If you want I can email some pics of the attaching details.


TR7 Spider - 1978 Spifire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra

[Launie]

Thanks Spyder. That explains your success. Down here in Sooke, we have plenty of the standard carport tents in people's driveways, and they seem to do fine compared to mine. But I think they must be stronger and built with extra supports. I'll take your advice and fiddle around. Eventually, I think I'll just make a proper shed out of scrap wood.

Thanks again.

Launie