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Post by Get off of TMB on Aug 18, 2018 14:53:03 GMT -5
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Post by Dennis J on Aug 18, 2018 20:37:42 GMT -5
Will always remember Reuben and Mary’s kindness to me when spending time at Ronan on an ill fated work crew sewing that poorly designed convention tent in the mid 60’s. I knew them as kindness personified.
Dennis
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Post by Gene on Aug 18, 2018 20:54:03 GMT -5
Will always remember Reuben and Mary’s kindness to me when spending time at Ronan on an ill fated work crew sewing that poorly designed convention tent in the mid 60’s. I knew them as kindness personified.
Dennis Can you share with us what made it a poor design, so that we don't make the same mistake ourselves?
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Post by lilwolfmisty on Mar 17, 2019 22:43:10 GMT -5
Mary was amazing. She was friends with my grandma when they were young. Then I and one of her granddaughters were best friends and I remember many days spent at Ronan convention grounds. She is definitely one that left an impression of pure love.
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Post by Dennis J on Mar 17, 2019 23:28:09 GMT -5
Will always remember Reuben and Mary’s kindness to me when spending time at Ronan on an ill fated work crew sewing that poorly designed convention tent in the mid 60’s. I knew them as kindness personified.
Dennis Can you share with us what made it a poor design, so that we don't make the same mistake ourselves? Gene, I am sorry for not replying sooner, just became aware of this post.
It was my lot to be involved in a number of tent making projects. As the youngest brother on the projects within that system, it was a matter of following some rather blind guides who didn’t think it possible for someone so wet behind the ears to know anything not known to their master tent builder.
The first few tents were all square ended ones. Ronan was unique as it was to be a round ended tent, which requires different math skills. I tried to warn the fella chosen to head up the project. He would not listen, did not know the geometry required to construct a round end tent, so designed a rim bound tent. I went to Charlie Krub with engineering drawings, warning him.
He told me he had to go with their expert’s advice, but even said he did not doubt my engineering skills in the least. The day it was to be erected, the truth of the matter proved itself, as 55’ poles would have been required to set it up. Their expert packed up that night and disappeared without even a goodbye.
So, solving that problem fell to my redesign. That made the tent flatter, but horribly large and heavy as they were foretold when I began that redesign. Simple matter of Applied Descriptive Geometry. Could have easily been avoided had not that master tent builder been so arrogantly stubborn. Life.
Future solution? Simple, use engineering design plans rather than just one person’s head knowledge. Hope this account helps.
Dennis
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