LME maintenance tent erection

[coachgeo]

Just took a guess and did TM recommended Square knot tie offs. For roof did one at roof where hits Eve area on both sides. From there did new set of Beckett lacing down the walls between the two covers. Started at top; at Eve... worked down till tie off at bottom. Monkey Climbed again and finagled a way to get velcro weather flap over laces on the walls to lay and hook in place.....

Tada..... two main covers laced & Velcro-ed at center- DONE. (only took about an hour to do just the wall lacing)

 

[coachgeo]

Got one End Section/Curtain fully Beckett Laced and Weather Velcro Flap affixed. Did it with Curtains pulled open to give everything as much slack as possible. Again stood on the POP UP/helmet top in bed of LMTV as my scaffolding. (It is set at same height as Cab Roof 9.5ft?)

Thought for moment was going to end up with a PITA event. You know the kind when your working on your Truck or Car and you end up throwing a wrench across the garage with !@$$% streaming from your lungs cause you realized many steps back did something realllly STUPID and now your gonna have to go back thru your steps undoing things; so you can start over to fix SNAFU that resulted steps later. . .... What brought on that assumption this !@#$$ was looming ahead...... was realization that one corner; had the grommet of Roof/Wall Cover and Grommet of End Section/Curtain out of order. Grommet of Roof/Wall had to go on the Peg LAST; not first in that corner. End/Curtain section had to be below it. Had it reversed.

Many steps back..... to install Cover over Pegs at Eve and Peak... it required ratchet straps and long ropes attached to cover and opposite rope end fixed out in a distance to something strategically placed . Did this to tuggggggggggg/stretch Cover on a hot day; to get a grommet over its mating Peg.. Thus why assumed a PITA event was looming ahead. Was expecting that as pulled each of the two sections up off the Peg in that corer to rearrange their order...... each cover was going to go PINGGGGGGG.... requiring to have to re-setup all the tugging rigging to get things back on the Peg. Total surprise it took very little tugging and no rigging to get the covers (in the correct order) over the Peg. . PHEWWW.... new neighbor didn't end up hearing what sounds like a loud cursing sailor on deck mid storm.

Even with not counting the pending PITA / that wasn't ..... still took about 30-45 min longer to Becket Lace the End Piece/Curtain than it did to do the middle between the two full Wall/Roof Covers. Physically it was easier..... just more time consuming to kind of set things just right