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06-30-2012, 04:02 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Tie Downs at OSH!
Can you rent Tie downs for a week in the experimental parking section at OSH? We have limited space in the RV12 and wish to lighten the load every chance we get. Couldn't find the info on the Airventure web site. Thanks for you help! 
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06-30-2012, 04:04 PM
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Must bring your own.
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06-30-2012, 04:32 PM
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No not true, there are volunteers that drive around with tiedowns you can rent.
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06-30-2012, 05:11 PM
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We used to have them at the Showplane registration on the flightline, but that building is no longer there. Maybe Jeff Point can chime in about that. I'm sure they have relocated those tiedowns, but where, I don't know.
Roberta
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06-30-2012, 05:28 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: MKE
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You can rent tie downs at homebuilders HQ when you register, but I would not recommend it. I would not trust my pride and joy to the cheap tie-downs/ ropes that are provided. You can make a set of EAA tie-downs (not the kind they rent) and they are not all that bulky or heavy.
http://www.airventure.org/planning/tying_down.html
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Jeff Point
RV-6, RLU-1 built & flying
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06-30-2012, 06:02 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Houston, TX
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If you fly in when the grounds are open you can buy some from the vendors there. Try AFS in the hangars or there were some in the flymart area.
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Michael Delpier
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06-30-2012, 06:55 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: TN
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rent or own
EAA chapter 444 makes tie downs and sells them in the north forty. We used them for years with the jabirus and lightnings. They work great in the hard soil in Oshkosh. You can get them from their building just north and west of the war bird area. I think it is thirty dollars and if you return them you get ten dollars back. They will even let you borrow a big hammer to drive them into the hard ground( if it is dry ground you are gonna need it)
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07-01-2012, 06:18 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I made a set of those EAA tiedowns and they are really nice. They hold like crazy.
Roberta 
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Roberta Hegy
Built/Flew an RV-7A
Air Troy Estates, East Troy, WI
Ford Expedition and TRICE "Q"
Built Glen L "ZIP" Classic Outboard Runabout and Super Spartan Hydroplane
Glen L Torpedo
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07-01-2012, 08:18 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Round Rock, TX
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Tie Downs
Tie down rings, stakes, and ropes should be essential equipment IN every plane, just like pitot tube cover and mini chocks. If you make an unscheduled stop at some airport along the way with an incoming storm, you would want to tie down!! Many airports do not have tie down spots or if they do they don't have ropes/chains. And don't buy/bring those twurly dog chain screw in type stakes, they often cannot be screwed into dry hard packed ground and sometimes breakoff, leaving an exposed sharp stake for others to taxi over.
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Last edited by Stu McCurdy : 07-01-2012 at 08:20 AM.
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