[Jewelry making - Article 00098] - Re: [Orchid] Canopies - EZ Up & EZ Down

[Kathy Johnson]

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    I only do a few outdoor shows a year, and only one of them has been
    on a surface where I couldn't stake my EZ Up directly to the ground. 
I
    had to drive quite a distance to get to that show, and I didn't want
    to haul a bunch of extra weight that wasn't stock or tables. So I
    bought four collapsible 5 gallon water jugs from a local army surplus
    store. Cost was about $5 each. When I arrived at my destination, I
    filled them up with water at my motel the morning I set up my booth.
    I clipped them to my booth where the sandbags would attach at the
    bottom of the legs, using short heavy chain dog leashes from a dollar
    store. The jugs weighed 40 pounds each when full (one gallon of water
    weighs 8 pounds). 

    They were tested the first night of the show, when the area was hit
    with freak storms as we closed for the evening. I emptied my booth
    because I'd forgotten my sidewalls, but I left the tent up. I lowered
    the top down as low as the legs would go. The next morning my tent
    was intact and had not moved. The top was holding quite a bit of
    water, but no damage was done to the roof fabric. When the show was
    over, I dumped the water out of the jugs, collapsed them and put them
    in a large plastic bag for the ride home. They took up about as much
    room as a suitcase, and weighed less than 5 pounds when empty. And
    the best thing about them was if someone tripped on or kicked one of
    the jugs, they didn't break their toes because the flexible jugs have
    some "give". 

Kathy Johnson
Feathered Gems Pet Jewelry
http://www.fgemz.com
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