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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Canopy
  • Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 12:35:08 -0400


On May 30, 2010, at 11:42 AM, cjmaness AT juno.com wrote:

One of our vendors has an aluminum frame canopy she got at Lowes. It's very light weight, but it was so easy to put up and take down that one person could do it very easily. She doesn't have any more trouble with it in the wind than the rest of us do. Weights on each leg, and bungee cord it to the vehicle.

We have the Walmart First ups, and the EZ-Ups and I can't do any of them by myself. I use one over our wash tables for shade and I bent one of the legs the other day trying to get the thing up.


I can do my EZ-Up by myself with very little problem on grass, and with no problem on concrete if either another vendor will hold one end for half a minute while I pull it open or if I can tie one end to something at the start -- the only thing that's hard to do alone is to pull it open lengthwise, and that's only because the far end skids toward me when I pull on the near one; if there's enough friction at the feet, or something to hold the far end, that can be done alone; even by a fairly small person. Putting it up from that point is no trouble at all. (A little silicon spray on all the sliding parts once or twice a year may help.)

The problem with some cheap units in the wind isn't what the unit itself weighs (they all need to be tied down), it's that portions of the assembly may come apart.


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







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