diff --git a/handbook/bivirig.html b/handbook/bivirig.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b117bd4cb --- /dev/null +++ b/handbook/bivirig.html @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8" /> +<title>Stone bridge bivi rigging guide</title> +<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/main2.css" /> +</head> +<body> + +<h1>Bivi Riggin Guide</h1> + +<p>Every year some poor bugger who has probably never done it before it +gets to rig the tarps and be responsible for any soggy miserable +nights that might result if it's not done well enough. Starting from +the bare space it's really quite hard to know where to start if you've +not done it before, so this doc attempts to provide some advice.</p> + +<p>Note that this was written after Wookey+Joe's rigging effort in +2014. It is not necessarily optimum, but did seem to more-or-less +work. Feel free to imporve it over time.</p> + +<p>There are two essentially-separate jobs: +<ol> +<li>set up the +water-collecting tarp</li>, and +<li>set up the main tarps</li> +</ol></p> + +<p>If there is any chance of it raining soon, start with the water +tarp, as you <strong>really</strong> don't want to miss it, and +setting up in the rain is rubbish.</p> + +<h2>Terminology</h2> + +<p>I will describe things as if standing at the bottom entrance looking +up, because that works for all three sections. So the +<strong>left</strong> wall is the +gear/stove/animal-hole wall. The 'back' is the top end of the bridge. +The 'front' is the main entrance.</p> + +<h2>Water tarp</h2> + +<h2>Main roof tarp</h2> + +<p>This is one large tarp covering more than half of the internal +roof. There are two main cross-ropes to hold it up, ties at the back +edge and 'knitting' to reduce sagging in the almost-flat central area. +The objective is to get it taut enough and square enough that almost +all the water runs down the top and out the front not collecting in +'buckets', which then drip. That means that it has to be fitted quite +'flat'. </p> + +<p>Start with the big green 10x10m tarp. It seems to be near-enough +square so don't worry which way round you start. The basic position is +that it goes all the way to the right wall, partly 'underneath', and +the left hand edge is about in line with the steps up the middle. The back +edge lines up with where the roof rises at the back entrance.</p> + +<p>Start by rigging + +<p>So start by opening it out to full width on the wide central +bed-shelf. and pulling the RH edge </p> + +<p></p> + +<p></p> + +<p></p> + +<h3>Rear entrance tarps</h3> +<p></p> + +<p></p> + +</body> +</html> \ No newline at end of file