How I strapped my hexayurt to my car.

[Bonnie]

Just got back from my first burn with an H12 strapped to my Honda Fit, and I'm officially in love with hexayurts. I only saw a few other cars with yurts on their roofs headed into BRC; I guess most people transport them inside trucks/vans, which seems like a waste of truck space to me.

I wasn't able to find much good documentation of how to transport a hexayurt on a car, so I took some photos of my obsessively over-engineered solution. The photo album with explanations is here: http://imgur.com/a/Yhxsw 

Hope this helps someone in the future.

[Ray Kornele]

Now there is documentation. And, you wrote it.

KrazyKyngeKorny (Krazy, not stupid)

[Lucas González]

Looks definitely wikifyable to me. Mind if someone does, maybe minus whatever details need to be anonymised? Say, substitute brand of car by generic type, etc? Looks extremely valuable. But then I'm not a burner, so please advise.

And thanks!

Lucas (far, far away from BM)

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[Adam Gensler]

I use the same approach. :-)

But ratcheted way too tight; cracked the front windshield.  :-(

Sent from my iPhone

[Jason Adams]

Wow thanks for the pics and explanation Bonnie.

Adam sorry to hear you cracked the front windshield, is that from the front hood ratchet?

[Josh and Cody]

I've tied a lot of stuff to a lot of roofs, and seen many weird ideas on how to transport large objects in small cars, or HUGE objects on large cars.

We saw this beauty in 2008:

Later that day we saw an Excursion with a 5 foot TALL pile on top of the car, covered by a tarp, and DUCT TAPED onto the sides, over the glass, down to the bumpers on the paint.   We chatted with them at a gas stop where they were happily putting more duct tape on the pile.  We asked "Did you know that Duct Tape can tear off the paint?" Their reply "It's my MOM's Car...."

I think compared to pretty much any solution we've ever seen on the way to BRC, particularly for a long drive,(  ie ANY drive to BRC ) this is a wonderful solution, and also prevent the State Patrol from ticketing you for an unsteady load!  It looks rock solid!

How did it do in the cross winds?

 

[Adam Gensler]

i used bungees, instead of ratchets for the front part.  so it was the ratchets that go across the top.  i also had to stand on the hex/plywood sandwich b/c two bikes and a carpet were on top of them.  that, plus the ratcheting, must have done the trip. 

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[Bonnie]

I'd love for someone to put my writeup into the wiki so that other people can find it. I cropped my license plate out of the photos, so it's sufficiently anonymous for me. (My license plate was ziptied to the bikes, with a DOT-compliant license plate light wired into the tail lights, so that I could achieve maximum smugness while passing all the people pulled over for obscured plates on the way into BRC.)

[Bob Waldrop]

What a great solution!� Not only for hexayurts, but for almost anything else you might need to tie to the roof of a car.� Nice work and even better documentation.

Bob Waldrop, Oklahoma City
http://www.ipermie.net -- How to permaculture your urban lifestyle

On 9/4/2013 12:01 AM, Ray Kornele wrote:

Now there is documentation. And, you wrote it.

KrazyKyngeKorny (Krazy, not stupid)

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Bonnie <bonnie.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just got back from my first burn with an H12 strapped to my Honda Fit, and I'm officially in love with hexayurts. I only saw a few other cars with yurts on their roofs headed into BRC; I guess most people transport them inside trucks/vans, which seems like a waste of truck space to me.

I wasn't able to find much good documentation of how to transport a hexayurt on a car, so I took some photos of my obsessively over-engineered solution. The�photo album with explanations is here:�http://imgur.com/a/Yhxsw�

[Daniel Brown]

Hi everyone.

I have a couple recommends. You probably experienced some strap vibration, yes? LIke a string on a violin. The vibration can cause the strap to weaken through abrasion even on something like the edge of a plywood board, for example. Not a given, certainly, but something to be aware of.
Duct tape helps.

There are various quality of straps and ratchets too - not all tie-downs are alike!

Which brings me to my second recommend: Plan B. If one strap breaks, is there a backup strap to keep the whole thing from kiting away? Backup your sense of assurance with a second strap in case one breaks.

Also, we used a piece of mdf cardboard stuff as a shield. MPG went from 22-25 to 19-22. Hooray yurt wind shields!

And yes, we drove to the desert upside down.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Bob Waldrop <b...@bobwaldrop.net> wrote:

What a great solution!  Not only for hexayurts, but for almost anything else you might need to tie to the roof of a car.  Nice work and even better documentation.

Bob Waldrop, Oklahoma City
http://www.ipermie.net -- How to permaculture your urban lifestyle

On 9/4/2013 12:01 AM, Ray Kornele wrote:

Now there is documentation. And, you wrote it.

KrazyKyngeKorny (Krazy, not stupid)

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Bonnie <bonnie.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just got back from my first burn with an H12 strapped to my Honda Fit, and I'm officially in love with hexayurts. I only saw a few other cars with yurts on their roofs headed into BRC; I guess most people transport them inside trucks/vans, which seems like a waste of truck space to me.

I wasn't able to find much good documentation of how to transport a hexayurt on a car, so I took some photos of my obsessively over-engineered solution. The photo album with explanations is here: http://imgur.com/a/Yhxsw 

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[Joshua Keroes]

Putting a single twist in your ratchet straps will help, too. Truckers do it for just this reason: 

http://truckined.blogspot.com/2012/09/twisted-straps.html

[Bonnie]

I tie a variety of stuff to my roof, so I use varying levels of obsessive strapping depending on the item.

Roof bag designed to clip to the roof bars: I just add the single red strap running all the way around through the car doors. 

Big long stuff (large ladder, EZ-up canopy, or lumber): lash it to the rack, then do the single red strap all the way around. In the future I'll probably use the front tie-down points too (the "TopTies"), but I only bought the TopTies recently (when I was planning the yurt adventure and reading horror stories of wind ripping yurts and roof racks off of cars). Seems like a good thing to have for making sure the wind can't get under it and turn it into a sail.

Hexayurt: STRAP ALL THE THINGS TO ALL THE THINGS. 

[doomcookie]

Heya,

I'm planning on taking my H12 hexayurt on top of my Honda Civic this year. How thick are your hexayurt panels? mine are 1.5", my stack of raw panels looks quite a big bigger than what you have strapped to your roof, which is making me worry a bit. 

Thanks:)

[Bonnie Barrilleaux]

I think my panels are only 1” thick, but my hexayurt is all wrapped up at the top of a closet so I can’t check it right now. I think you’ll be okay, though. My setup was so rock solid that I think the pile could’ve been substantially thicker without causing any problems. If the aerodynamics are really awful and your car is getting blown around on the interstate, you might have to drive a little slower than usual.

Happy yurting! 

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[Jacob Rodriguez]

This was our set up for 2013. We had a 4'x4'x22" half-cube on top of the car. Like you, we sandwiched between two plywoods, and used the ratchet straps. Stayed super secure, but the tarp kept coming loose and needed lots of bungee cords to stay put.

This year, I'm going to make a custom-fitted, waterproof fabric carrying case for the yurt so the only thing required is the straps. I'm also contemplating putting a foam wedge-like shape on the front just to help break up that huge flat edge. We were getting 17mpg max but should've been at least 26 based on previous trips.

We also had the strap vibration as we got to highway speeds. The roof rack held the strap just above the roof so it was like a big bass string vibrating on our heads. Wrapping a dish towel or a t-shirt around the straps got rid of that noise.

[Ronald Pottol]

For what ever it's worth, a rounded edge is best, think supertanker or 747 nose.

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