Worth a try. If it does not work, it did not cost a fortune, if it does, good for the owner.
Unless there’s a footing these straps are being anchored to that I’m not seeing, I doubt it’ll do very much besides potentially acting as very dangerous whips.
You’d be surprized how strong an industrial screwed-in ground anchor holds. And it has to be anchored at the correct angle towards the load.
So, most likely, they will not just rip out, and they have a good chance to add a significant force holding down that roof.
If done properly, of course.
Seems like a plausible strategy. If the roof is lashed down it can’t catch the wind and therefore is less likely to weaken over time and go flying. Certainly better than doing nothing.
With all these experts in the comments, I now want the original sauce and to follow up to see what actually will happen.
YouTube recommended a video of this to me yesterday. The straps are anchored with cement. Seems like it buys him X additional mph of wind speed compared to his neighbors. We’ll see if the winds are in that “more than a regular roof can handle but less than the straps can hold” range.
Apparently, he’s not the first, and it might actually have a chance of working.
Jesus Diaz was afraid the roof would blow off. And while the straps are gone, the roof stayed put. His home didn’t sustain damage, either.
Meanwhile the row of houses a street over that got raked with his modern-day chain shot are ravaged
Someone remind us of this works after Milton goes through this house.
For a 2k investment I’m willing to try it to save my home.
I wonder how deep those stakes are driven lol
On the surface, it looks as if they bored decent size holes in the ground and set the anchors in concrete. With a Bobcat, they could easily get 3 meter x 40cm holes; that’s 904kg of concrete at each anchor point, and a lot of friction.
This isn’t the stupidest idea I’ve ever seen; given that they can’t move their house, and set unlikely to move all their possessions for just a few days, Heck, it’s not a bad idea at all, and looks well-executed.
I guarantee it’s not deep enough. Hurricanes of this magnitude topple and uproot trees with massive root structures extending several meters underground. These type of DIY solutions are almost always create more hazard than they solve.
More than likely, if the straps are attached to cement blocks, the cement is deeper than the average depth of a tree root.
Those trees are also giant sails which transfers that much more force from the wind
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I seriously want to know how it goes with his house. I give him props for trying.This is like congratulating Don Quixote for killing all the dragons.
It’s congratulating Don Quixote for trying to preserve chivalric code, no matter how misguided it may be, with the result being better than what you’d think at first glance.
slaps tightened straps “That’s not going anywhere”
Those are the magical words that make it happen. The straps are just for show.
This is extremely stupid. I was happy to see that most people here seem to immediately understand this.
I love that the straps are parallel to the trusses. only thing better would be watching those straps cut through the shingles, underlayment, and sheeting like cheese once winds hit 188mph.
pats roof
That ain’t going nowhere
This baby’ll hold a family of three
The problem is almost never that the wind it blowing, its what the wind is blowing.
In this case, I expect it’s going to be blowing those ratchet straps after they become unanchored, turning them into whips that’ll cleave the roof in half.
The description for the picture says they are connected to big burried concrete blocks, so likely the house is gone before these straps get loose.
Yeah but if a tree slams into the strap and breaks it
It might break the roof. Those straps are nearly as wide as that truck’s brake lights, i don’t see them snapping so easily.
Those straps aren’t going to break.
Look man I’m not a sciencologist but if a big ol tree smacks into that strap maybe the strap doesn’t break but the metal tie downs? Idk man doesn’t seem like it would work out well for the house or straps
You could use those straps to lift a large tree up in the air with a crane
A 2" wide straps is supposed to fail at about 10,000 pounds/4500kg of static load. The nylon strap will fail long before the metal hardware does, and the roof is going to fail before either of those do. If a large enough object fell on the strap, the most probable scenario is that the strap would end up acting like a wire cutter to the roof.
I believe you
It’ll trampoline off into the neighbor’s house.
Hurricanes rip poorly built roofs off all the time. Builders get lazy and install the hurricane anchor things wrong. At least the local home inspector on Reddit used to say
I trust reddit posts too.
it’s* what the wind is blowing.
Ron White, is that you!?
They call me… Tater-Salad.
If your ass gets hit by a Volvo…
I wonder what the vibration frequency of those straps is, once the wind is blowing through them.
Will they vibrate the roof into mush before they pull out of the ground and become metal ended whips?
As someone who straps, I felt this in my soul. God I hate that noise(I use tarp clamps for dampeners).
I’ve used a twist in the strap and that seems to help a lot.
Gotta be careful though, twist in the strap can ruin the strength limit of the strap if it’s under load
This is how I was trained, yeah. No twists!!
Apparently this is a bit of a myth https://youtu.be/ifyJjQXOttE
Someone tested this and found it to be basically not true. https://youtu.be/ifyJjQXOttE
Interesting. I was under the impression that the vibrations could be a problem if not twisted — apparently it’s a hotly debated topic, who knew! https://dccargo.com/blogs/strap-chat/to-twist-or-not-to-twist-cargo-straps
Holy shit all this time I thought The Picard Maneuver was an entire sub and thanks to that meme earlier I see you’re an actual person. Finally clued in…
Good stuff too!
Also this seems like an idea worth trying. Cheap, maybe might work? Idk. I’m not inside hurricanes ever.
Haha, yep - I’m just a guy.
a legend more like
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I’m not sure if you’re aware, but yes that’s what that’s been called for a very long time now.
I thought the same thing for awhile!
If this homeowner is as good at tying down his house as the yokels around here are at tying down their cargo, then the odds are this house is somehow going to end up hitting my windshield.
Just tie some rope around it, that’ll hold!
