Tornado proofing my single wide trailer house. How much rope do I need to tie it down?
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The rope would cost more than the trailers value.
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Well, a clear question would help. \n\nAre you trying to calculate the power that a certain material can withstand?   Or are you trying to calculate strength?
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Pull the whole string out. Attach a safety pin to one end then work the safety pin through to the other side, pulling the string as you go. Tie bigger knots on the ends of the strings to avoid this in the future.
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One of my favorites was making a tornado in a 2 L soda bottle.\n\nWhat you do is take a bottle and pour it almost full of water. Get some grass and some small toys, like cars to put in there. I like to use the monopoly houses to. Then put a small drop of soap in then swirl the top a the bottle around really fast. There ya go a tornado. Then give a one or two paragraph summery on how a tornado is formed.
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Unless it is very weak, it is dangerous. You car will easily be lifted by a tornado. Plus, flying debri (like wood) will go thru your car door with ease.
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Ok... the first thing to realize is that you are finding the maximum area with the least amount of materials.  To do that you should put the shed at a corner of the rectange, that way two sides of the shed act as part of the fence.  Assume that the shed is not "usable area" for the shep pen.  Accordingly, you need to solve the problem twice, once with using the shed as part of one side, and once using the shed as a corner.\n\nOk, the first thing you need to do is show that the maximum area of a rectangle occurs when the lenght and width are equal.  That is the only part that needs any type of equation analysis, and it really doesn't require calculus.\n\nA=L*W\nAssuming that the width is at most as long as the L, then the equation goes to:\nA=L*(x*L), where x a percentage, ranging from 0 to 1.\nClearly, the area (A) will be maximum when x=1.  That shows that in your problem, the pen will have the maximum area when the length and width of the rectangles are equal.\n\nSo, you know that the fence is 160m., and you have 4 sides, s1, s2, s3 and s4.\nSo:\n160m=s1+s2+s3+s4\n\nNow, if you use the shed as part of one side, namely s4, then the perimeter equation for the shed is:\n180m=s1+s2+s3+s4+20m\n\nSince the maximum area occurs when the lenght and width are equal:\ns1=s2=s3=s4-20m, so substituting s2, s3 and s4 for s1 in the permiter equation, you get:\n4s1+20m=180m\nSolve for s1,\ns1=45m (call this the length)\ns4=45-20=25m\nin this case, the area will be S1*S1, since the lenght and width of the pen will be equal.  \nSo the area is 45*45=2025 sq. m.\n\nNow, put the shed in a corner of the sheep pen.\nSo in our example, we'll make the shed part of s1 and s4.\n\nso the primeter equation will be:\ns1+20m+s2+s3+s4+20m=200m\nNow, s1=s2-20, s3=s2 and s4=s2-20\nSo substituting for s1, s2 and s4, you get:\ns2-20m+s2+s3+s4-20m+40m=200m\nsolve for s2,\ns2=50m=s3 and s1=30m (s2-20m)\nSo max area is 50m*50m=2500 sq. m\nBut, now you need to reduce the area by the area of the shed (400 sq. m), so final usable area is:\n2100 sq. m which is more than using the shed as part of only 1 side.
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the design depends on the span, as well as how concentrated that 140 lb will be.  Also, there are many other variables that have to be considered such as height and roof slope
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Gimmy a rope to help you
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In order to lasso you need a stiff rope. you can buy one at you local feed store. sorry but I don't know how to do it but maybe you can ask at the feed store.
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For valuation purposes, the basement is not clasified as a storey. Neither is an attic. Therefore 3 storeys is the answer
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depends on how well you can keep the rope open when you swing it.  I would recommend a 30ft 3/8  XS 4 strand rope for a beginner, for heading.
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the side length is 2\nso the altitude should be 3^(1/2)\ngood luck
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Orange and red with at least 2 hooks in a trailer pattern! Be sure to use at least a 6 pount test unless the big boys are around. Then move up your test lines accordingly!
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I've seen several funnel clouds, those are an awesome and chilling sight. By the time you notice them they're pretty well-formed. Almost all of them last a few seconds and either dissipate or roll back up into the sky. We were actually involved with a real tornado three years ago, It was an F1-F2 that stayed on the ground for almost thirty miles. I heard  the siren go off in the next town, we got the kids and the dogs in the basement. My wife and I kept going outside and looking around for something more threatening than the usual oncoming thunderstorm. After about 10 minutes we heard the freight train coming and headed downstairs. The house shook enough that the dust came down from the rafters. It lasted less than thirty seconds and then a whole lot of rain came down. The tornado missed us by 200 yards. The telephone pole in the corner of my back yard was okay, the one next to it was torn out of the ground and thrown across the road. The one next to that was torn out and thrown a hundred yards. No one in my rural neighborhood was hurt, but they did wind up bulldozing and rebuilding three homes. The home across the street had the front porch torn off and thrown over the roof, exposing a large hole in the roof deck that let in enough rain to collapse most of the ceilings. The path of damage was maybe a half-mile wide. Homes outside that range did not see much damage. I was surprised that the wind was toward the tornado, not away from it. The funnel was enough of a low-pressure point to draw the air towards it at a hundred-and-some miles an hour. The broken trees have repaired themselves, the homes and farms have been rebuilt, The only lasting reminder is a lot of sheets of tin barn roof still wrapped around treetops. We're in Northern Ohio. Moderate tornado damage is at least a yearly event in the area. Huge destructive disastrous storms like they get in the plains are a rarity.
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we dug a round hole & put a big [tractor] wheel down into the hole.  Then had a hard metal lid made for it.  Take the lid off & fire pit!!  Put the lid on & we can mow over it, walk on it, etc.\nworks great & is only a fews yard from our basement walk-out
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what size are we talking here? small use some of that packing material and use a exacto (sp) knife to form, shape sides roof , put it together with something that won't melt the Styrofoam
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a half-hitch will work fine depending on the tree and the rope used you may need to drive a nail under the rope on the back side of the tree