Portable shop tent awning

[Frank S]

I consider this to be a valuable tool especially when the Texas sun starts to heat things up, but some may not consider it to be a tool at all so it is posted here
# years ago I bent up and welded together the corner and center pieces for an portable shade. This year I down sized the framework a little since I needed to place it in a slightly more confined space. Last year at 1 time I had 12 ft tall legs under it so I could get dump trailers and other taller equipment under it also I had it stretched out to 28 by 30 ft as that was the size tarp I was using. THis year I am hoping to only need it for a few weeks while we get much of our stuff moved but I still wanted some shade to work under so it is 20 ft by 20 ft and 10 ft high in the center.
It is also doubling as a place to hang a bunch of my chains so I can get them all in one place and easily find them for binding loads down to the trailers. The hanging chains also serve to help hold the thing down in high winds Right now I have about 600 lbs of chains hanging .

Normally I used ropes or cables in the rings that I have welded to the braces to hold things together but since I needed to weigh it down a little with the shorted smaller structure this year I just hooked a few chains on it

[Ed ke6bnl]

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I made a bunch of these anchors for shed and covers for when they are placed on dirt, which is mostly what I have at my place. My boy gave me a couple hundred feet of 1/8 steel cable. They do work.

[Frank S]

If I was overly concerned I would take some old axle shafts and try to drive them through the several feet of crushed concrete and other rubble that composes the driveway area where I have the tent located.
Last year when I had it set up at 25 by 30 ft size I had 2 80 lb truck brake drums located at each of the 6 posts and a few hundred pounds of chains on it, the tent then was tall enough to drive the tallest legal height semi trailer under . We had a storm with wind gusts over 60 MPH the tarp got ripped up some but the structure never moved. I have it located now between my 1968 GMC buss conversion motor coach and my 45 ft house hold goods machine shop trailer it is pretty well protected from the most severe winds and is not much taller than the motor-coach at it peak of the tent so with 20 27 ft long 3/8 chains hanging on it I doubt it it will move too much if the winds don't get above 60 MPH