this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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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
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
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.
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You could use those straps to lift a large tree up in the air with a crane
I need an after picture of this house stat
It'll trampoline off into the neighbor's house.
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.
homie these straps are probably rated for a tree falling on it lol
Ok but what about 20 trees and a lot of debris?
ur house is probably part of the debris by then lmao
schrodingers whip. How is it both unanchored and a whip at the same time.
Two anchor points per strap.
if one of them goes, the other is pretty likely to go as well. Unless you just didn't secure it properly, in which case skill issue.
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.
i would trust that redditor seeing how homes are often built lmao
That particular redditor had a long history of weekly posts with the shitty home builder work they inspected, but I hear the argument, I have no evidence other than hearsay and didn't research it myself.
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