12-31-2003, 08:52 PM
WH2, I have been there!
First year I bought one, it cost $100 bucks, but under the snow the poles buckled.
Luckily no damage was done, and the brackets were all still in tact.
I replaced all my poles with chain link fence posts. If you go to home dpot, you can pick up 8 ft poles. they are thicker walled, and tougher than the poles that come in the kits and fit right into the brakets.
Mine is still standing to this day, three years later. No problems. Of course, the fishing boat is inside, but the duck boat lives under that canopy all winter long.
The same year mine came down, skeeter2 bought the same one, and his came down the same night mine did. Those things have a limit when they are stock.
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First year I bought one, it cost $100 bucks, but under the snow the poles buckled.
Luckily no damage was done, and the brackets were all still in tact.
I replaced all my poles with chain link fence posts. If you go to home dpot, you can pick up 8 ft poles. they are thicker walled, and tougher than the poles that come in the kits and fit right into the brakets.
Mine is still standing to this day, three years later. No problems. Of course, the fishing boat is inside, but the duck boat lives under that canopy all winter long.
The same year mine came down, skeeter2 bought the same one, and his came down the same night mine did. Those things have a limit when they are stock.
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