Smoking in the rain

[OldSmoke]

I was looking forward to that rain, it helped melt the snow.

I just came back from Olympia yesterday checking on the boat. Once off the main roads, it was four wheel drive to the marina. It rained like heck all night and most of it was gone in the morning. Loosing a foot of snow over night got the rivers excited. Lots of leftover carnage on I5. I’d like to be a guardrail contractor right now. Miles and miles of mangled steel and cable. Nothing like our friends to the east, but what a mess.

 

[forktender]

I think jake has me pegged, don't tell the wife I said this but my tendency is to think about things all the way until I buy something. I'm a scientist by education and an engineer by trade. I'm just going to rearrange how the smoker and grill are.arranged and get a.10x10 canopy. I'll just take it down when the weather looks bad.

Then buy one that has a vented roof like this one.

Best of luck.
Dan

Use 16'' to 18'' long tent stakes and hang 1 gallon water jugs on each leg if it's windy. Two tent stakes per leg driven in like an X in opposing directions works best for windy days.

Or if money is an issue, you could also go with one of these with a concrete base.

I would recommend wrapping a bungi cord around the pole then driving in a few tent stakes or at least hanging a few 1 gal water jugs off of it or tieing a lanyard of some sort too it.
I found this out the hard way when the person across the street can over and said that my shade just hit their car, which cost me almost $1000 to have the dent repaired and repainted by a friend...........Oop's!!!

 

[Nefarious]

Then buy one that has a vented roof like this one.

Best of luck.
Dan

Use 16'' to 18'' long tent stakes and hang 1 gallon water jugs on each leg if it's windy. Two tent stakes per leg driven in like an X in opposing directions works best for windy days.

Or if money is an issue, you could also go with one of these with a concrete base.

I would recommend wrapping a bungi cord around the pole then driving in a few tent stakes or at least hanging a few 1 gal water jugs off of it or tieing a lanyard of some sort too it.
I found this out the hard way when the person across the street can over and said that my shade just hit their car, which cost me almost $1000 to have the dent repaired and repainted by a friend...........Oop's!!!

Thanks for your thought. I do plan on using a 10x10 canopy. However, my patio is a paving stone surface so no tent stakes. My plan is to take some paving stones and cut a groove in one side to wrap around the post then put sand bags on for additional weight.

 

[forktender]

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I just came back from Olympia yesterday checking on the boat. Once off the main roads, it was four wheel drive to the marina. It rained like heck all night and most of it was gone in the morning. Loosing a foot of snow over night got the rivers excited. Lots of leftover carnage on I5. I’d like to be a guardrail contractor right now. Miles and miles of mangled steel and cable. Nothing like our friends to the east, but what a mess.

Nice boat, I grew up in a sailing family and still have a cousin that lives on their 48'er in Jack London Square in Alameda, CA. I grew up on the largest lake in CA and now live next to the Sacramento and San Joaquin River convergence in the CA Delta. I pretty much grew up sailing 17' Hobie cats on lakes, the river and in the San Francisco bay. Nothing better when it's 100* here in town, and chicks dig rides on the Hobie.

 

[OldSmoke]

Our daughter lives in North Bay SF. My plan is to move the boat south to the bay, and become a multi-generational household. I offered to wrangle the cat, cook, clean, wash the car and do yard work.

She ain’t buying it. So, in the great northwet , we stay.

 

[forktender]

Thanks for your thought. I do plan on using a 10x10 canopy. However, my patio is a paving stone surface so no tent stakes. My plan is to take some paving stones and cut a groove in one side to wrap around the post then put sand bags on for additional weight.

Make sure you add a bunch of weight to each leg, see my post above. LOL!!!
I'd seriously consider a lanyard from one of the legs to the smoker, for some added insurance.

I've seen several 10x10's and larger take off like a hang glider in the wind.



Good luck.
Dan.

 

[Nefarious]

Make sure you add a bunch of weight to each leg, see my post above. LOL!!!
I'd seriously consider a lanyard from one of the legs to the smoker, for some added insurance.

I've seen several 10x10's and larger take off like a hang glider in the wind.



Good luck.
Dan.

Looks like that could easily hurt someone.

 

[forktender]

Looks like that could easily hurt someone.

Looking at the trees, it didn't even look overly windy that day.
The day mine took off the wind kicked up and was gusting to 15 -20 mph, I figured I had enough weight on the legs, I was wrong. LOL!!!

 

[Newglide]

Just a word of caution, When using the canopy, the next time you pull it out it will smell like your last smoke. For me, I get hungry and the urge to smoke something.

 

[Fueling Around]

When I lived in PNW, we had a Sunsetter awning on the house over the concrete patio. so nice to stow it when weather threatened

I had a 10x10 pop up (had is the key word)
I had stakes in the holes on each corner and 2 guys on each corner. That's 12 anchor points.
It still took 4 of us holding it down in a windstorm to keep it from blowing away.
2 of the scissor struts got broken so I ended up tossing it.

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I just came back from Olympia yesterday checking on the boat.
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I miss my blow boat. Had a Catalina 26

 

[Nefarious]

Just a word of caution, When using the canopy, the next time you pull it out it will smell like your last smoke. For me, I get hungry and the urge to smoke something.

Was that smoke something or Smoke something, it is the PNW .