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  • From: "Robin Follette" <list AT seasonseatingsfarm.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Quik Shade
  • Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:15:09 -0400

(Sorry Liz!  This probably bounced to you when I used the wrong email address earlier.)
 
 
I waited too long to order an E-Z Up and had to pick up a canopy at a box store.  I won't make that mistake again.  We purchased a C100 Quik Shade to use at farmers' market. It's a commercial grade canopy so I hoped it would be better than the last one we bought.  That one lasted a year before it crumbled into a heap.  I'm a strong woman but it takes a man's strength to get the legs snapped into place where the legs meet the canopy. It's a tug of war that I always lose. If I don't have three people available to help me I can't use it.  Unfortunately, the box was ruined in the rain on the way home so I can't return this.  I miss the $80 E-Z Up that I could put up alone in five minutes.
 
We sprayed the corners with silicone so that it slides alright now but that doesn't lessen the strength it takes to extend the legs the last 2" to get it locked.  Does anyone else have model and have suggestions on making this easier?  I'd like to drag it across the road and heave it into the river every week. 
 
Robin
Seasons Eatings Farm
Talmadge, Maine
 
"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe



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