Was sat watching Corrie last night when i heard an almighty crash. Went outside to see what it was and saw next doors gazibo blowing accross my garden towards my brand new tent that was pitched on the lawn... WELL I dashed accross the garden and managed to catch it!!! Was within inches of going through my tent!!! After a wrestle with some bent and very sharp metal poles i'd dismantled it but not before it had tried to drag me accross the rest of the garden!!!
After i'd calmed down and returned said gazibo to neighbour (in lots of bits) it got me thinking... These things could be leathal!!! what if this was a campsite? And me and my family were inside the tent!?! And those metal poles had ripped through our tent!?!
Was sat watching Corrie last night when i heard an almighty crash. Went outside to see what it was and saw next doors gazibo blowing accross my garden towards my brand new tent that was pitched on the lawn... WELL I dashed accross the garden and managed to catch it!!! Was within inches of going through my tent!!! After a wrestle with some bent and very sharp metal poles i'd dismantled it but not before it had tried to drag me accross the rest of the garden!!!
After i'd calmed down and returned said gazibo to neighbour (in lots of bits) it got me thinking... These things could be leathal!!! what if this was a campsite? And me and my family were inside the tent!?! And those metal poles had ripped through our tent!?!
I SAY BAN THEM!!! THEY ARE JUST TO DANGEROUS!!!
They are banned from alot of sites here.
They are dangerous and can damage tents and people
we saw it happen afew years ago we were at whippet racing and decied not to race as it was realy windy so everyone else was at the track and we were at the other side of the feld and had allready maid sure or mpv and traile were in a postion to block a lot of the wind and we were the only ones witha frame tent and were glad we were. after checking or pegs were ok tony spent hours running round hammering everyones in just as he had done a tunnle tent right past his head flew a union jack gazibow summersalting agross the freald it fllew right in the tunnle tent and just missed 2 of the dogs in there cages by an inch this then turned the tunle tent in to an open wind tunnle trying to take off it ahd a bulit in grownd sheet were the dogs cages were we had tro hold and wrsetle it down while my dauter ran foir help it tooom 8 men to gte it undre contril and get the gazibo out. Have to say though tony came into his own and with duck tape and bits of fabric and the legs form the gazibo manedged to botch the couples tunnle ten for them to finish the weekend but ever since then we go round saying the wearthers going to be windy later take it done they do worry me especialy the very cheep ones they just fall apart
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We take ours down if its windy - but we are getting to the point when we don't think we will bother with it anymore as it can't take wind - doen't keep rain off and I am not sure how much sun protection you get!
Reminds me of a few years ago when I was at a motocross meeting. Was walking the course with a friend in the morning, we then looked across to the paddock to see a gazebo take off and fly across a van, before realising it was mine!
Since then I've always ensured it is properly tethered to the floor, water barrels work the best, although screw-in dog tetheres work well also.
They should certainly be dismantled in high winds.
Reminds me of a few years ago when I was at a motocross meeting. Was walking the course with a friend in the morning, we then looked across to the paddock to see a gazebo take off and fly across a van, before realising it was mine!
Since then I've always ensured it is properly tethered to the floor, water barrels work the best, although screw-in dog tetheres work well also.
They should certainly be dismantled in high winds.
Neighbour said she'd tried to weight it down with a couple of house bricks!!! Like thats gonna make any difference!!!
Several years ago, (around the same time as the Tintagel flood) We were camping on the Gower, it became quite windy during the night and so as I was awake, I decided to get up to check the tents guys as I stepped out of the tent I saw a gazebo bowling down the campsite towards my tent I managed to catch it and dismantle it. serveral poles of the gazebo were broken and very sharp luckily I caught it but what would have happened if I had not got out to check the guys? It doesn't bear thinking about,
I had one a few years ago. The people camped next to us also had one up. Dead calm day, but the wind came up at 4am, and we were very, very lucky that ours didn't go through next doors kids bedroom pod. I was almost in tears, I was so frightened, shouting to wake the other couple to get their gazebo, which was wrecked as well.
It was dragging us towards the other tent,as me and hubby both tried to hold it down, the poles were like daggers where they had bent and snapped. It was double guyed and we had pegged everything that could be pegged .
Never again !! I won't even use one in the garden now, they are just plain dangerous.
Reminds me of a few years ago when I was at a motocross meeting. Was walking the course with a friend in the morning, we then looked across to the paddock to see a gazebo take off and fly across a van, before realising it was mine!
Since then I've always ensured it is properly tethered to the floor, water barrels work the best, although screw-in dog tetheres work well also.
They should certainly be dismantled in high winds.
Neighbour said she'd tried to weight it down with a couple of house bricks!!! Like thats gonna make any difference!!!
Same thing happened two years ago to a friend of mine. It was a brand new double gazebo. It had just been pegged down when a gust of wind caught it and sent it flying. Just missed several other campers.
I agree they are dangerous but if you insist on taking one its better to have the material ones with a vent on the top so the wind passes through.
I agree they should be banned from sites, a couple of years back in Verwood our van was pitched opposite a tent with a gazeebo the people went out and the wind got up I thought that it was going to go and it was leaning in our direction so I went over and put some extra guys and pegs in to secure it four doubles in fact. Wonder what would have happened if we had gone out first?
During the May 2007 storm, I pegged down and dismantled neighbouring tents and gazebos that were abandoned, purely because of the worry of them going airborne towards other tents including our own.
I have taken a gazebo once on a trip myself. The frame opens in one piece, and is relatively strong. That said, even with 2 rock pegs in each foot, I did drop the gazebo to half height at night and when away from the site.
I do think they are an inherent risk which some sites recognise - but at the moment the C&CC don't have any blanket ban on them.
First trip we ever went on we spent the afternoon watching people trying to erect LARGE tents in a high wind on top of cliffs ( the rest of the field was in a hollow and very sheltered Come early evening out came the camping stoves etc in the Gazebos a sudden huge gust sent at least 4 flying down on the campers beneath like lethal weapons some injuries and alot of damaged tents that day,Quite frightening really
The problem is that in many cases the ones who aren't bright enough to peg and guy them down well are also the ones who don't think to take them down if it's windy.
We rescued one at a Forest Holidays site once, it had been pitched with just four of the pegs that came with it.
I used a cheap one (£12.99 from Somerfield) a number of times one summer, including a week on a hill in North Yorkshire, and it never gave any cause for concern despite some strongish winds. I used all the pegs that came with + another 6.
------------- Caz
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Topic: Beware Of Flying Gazibos!!!
