Tiedown Stakes & Bridge Spikes...

Veeduber...

Do you only use one bridge spike per wing, or (as another poster suggested)
three of them driven at an angle 120° apart?

Jim







The eminent Veeduber (R.S. Hoover) scribbled ...

Gross over-kill.

Ever seen a bridge spike? It's a NAIL, 12" long, 3/8" diameter, typical
nail-head on one end, pointed on the other. Available from most hardware
stores. (The local Home Deepot carries them.) Cheap enough to leave behind
for the trip home.

Used with a large washer, bridge spikes are one of the few things able to get a
grip on really hard ground.

A couple of those molded black rubber bungees as gust snubbers, combined with a
hank of 1/4" poly rope and knowledge of a few basic knots, you can secure just
about anything right up to Full Gale force winds. And cheap enough to abandon
& replace as needed.


Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com