tie downs in the bush

In article , N93332 wrote:
Blanche,

Thanks for the information! Don't you mean 10 stakes (1 spare) instead of 13
or do you put 4 stakes for each tiedown or have 4 tiedowns? I haven't needed
to supply my own tiedown stakes, yet, but someday I'll fly into Oshkosh.
I'll have to go to the local Home Depot Pilot Store and locate these parts
and throw them in the plane.

*sigh*

and me with a degree in math. but but but...I can do diffyQ and
calculus with no problems! it's the addition & subtraction and
multiplication that requires a calculator (or my fingers...)

Blanche wrote:
I invented a tie-down for OSH this year that worked incredibly well
and cost less than $50.

Here's my version. At Home Depot, buy three 3/8" steel rods 6' long. Also buy a
coil of 3/8" braided nylon line and a medium sized ball-peen hammer.

At home, cut each rod into three pieces. Make the cuts at an angle greater than
45 degrees. One of the pieces will have two 45 degree angles; cut one end off
square. Clamp each piece in a vise and bend about 2.5" of one end over at a 90
degree angle. Bend over the end that's cut square.

In use, drive three of these in where you want a tie-down. Drive them in at
about a 45 degree angle and keep the bent leg at the top turned towards the
ground. Drive them in so that the rods are pretty close together where they go
into the ground, but drive them in in different directions. Leave about two
inches above ground. Tie your line around all three rods (I use two half hitches).

Any tension on the line will attempt to pull the rods up, but none of them can
go that way without pulling out to the side. At the same time, the noose in the
rope formed by the half hitches is trying to pull the rods together, so they
can't pull to the side.

With a taildragger, you can use three rods under each wing and a single rod for
the tail. Just place the rod a couple feet from the tail and drive it in with
the point slanted towards the plane.

Tor remove the rods, hook a piece of line around the end of a single rod and
pull in the reverse of the direction in which the rod was driven.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Blanche wrote in news:1124816360.522463
@irys.nyx.net:

I invented a tie-down for OSH this year that worked incredibly well
Snipola

I remember seeing this on the web someplace, can't remember where.
Snipola

Sorry to pick nits, but aren't these contradictory statements?

Nifty idea just the same. Could be used for many things besides tying
down airplanes.

Brian
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