A Burning Man Blog by Mike

Here is how the pieces for each of the roof panels get cut from one 4×8 sheet of foam board.

Here is this mornings idea for anchoring the Yurt walls to the ground, internally, without any ropes to trip people in the dark palya night. Staking them to the ground makes sense. However, I worry that trying to pound a stake into the ground will end up damaging the foam wall with a misplaced hammer blow. So I am going to try and use long, large diameter lag type screws, driven with a cordless drill into the playa.

This morning I woke up with a great idea for internally anchoring the Yurt walls to the ground using a K-Hinge, plywood blocks and metal stakes. I’ll post a pic a soon as I make a sketch.

Here is the 8 foot long K-Hinge attached to a wall panel as of last night. The edges of the canvas are ragged because I tear the canvas instead of cutting it with scissors. Not as clean, but way faster.

Here is the bumper sticker on my wagon that was taken to Burning Man sometime before 1993-1995 when I purchased it. I’m hoping someone can identify the year of the bumper sticker.