[Market-farming] Market Shelter

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Thu May 14 14:54:12 EDT 2009


On May 14, 2009, at 11:26 AM, jay sleichter wrote:

> I purchased a cheaper 10 by 10 pop-up shelter several years ago.  It 
> has served me very well.  I don't set it up every week, just when I 
> need to probably once every other week. It is easy to set up and 
> waterproof.  The problems I have is that the legs are weak and it 
> doesn't take wind real well and screws keep working lose. I have seen 
> many EZ-Up shelters and they seem to be the "Top of the Line".   I am 
> wanting to upgrade to one this year.  My question is what model?  
> There are Eclipse, Express, Sierra, Enterprise and etc.  What model is 
> the best for it's money.  I don't want to spend lots of money, but I 
> want a quality shelter.

It's been some years since I last did that hunt, but here's what I 
remember:

Some of the differences are in size and/or shape; probably not all 
models are available in all sizes, so you need to decide that first.

Get a commercial model, not a consumer model. Otherwise you may get the 
same problems you've got with the one you have now. (Though on any 
model you should check once in a while in case fasteners are coming 
loose; but on a good one it doesn't happen often.)

What I have is a Speed Shelter; works fine for me. I got that model 
because I wanted the 8' x 12' size, which is unusual, but which fits 
one of my market spaces better than the more common sizes. -- I have no 
idea what models and/or sizes are available right now. I last 
investigated this in 2004.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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