Re: Home-made Tiedowns
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 3:12 pm
Bob Mika tested several different types of tie downs to see which held the best. The best was a spiral dog stake. They are difficult to get into really hard ground without breaking. Years ago I bought a set of spiral stakes made from titanium...you can screw then into asphalt if you want to.
N111YX wrote:Many airplanes were flipped and/or destroyed. It seems that nearly all tie-down sysytem types failed but the dog tie downs were the first to go. It makes sense. Would the desingers really engineer a multi-thousand pound pull force capability for dog security...?
structurespilot wrote:What happen at the lakeland tornado? Did planes flip over due to the dog ties?
Norm