06-14-2016, 03:02 PM
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Re: 30 ft yurt from scratch
If you have a doweling jig, go ahead and dowel it. But you gotta be fast, because glue sets up in dowels, and biscuits, real fast. Do a trial run through ratchet clamp to work out the bugs before you glue anything. You gotta get that ratchet strap on there very fast before Titebond type aliphatic waterproof glue sets up. You literally have minutes to work.
Get everything on the subfloor. Have the ratchet strap close to size and ready to go. Layout the wax paper. Glue a joint. Assemble it. Glue a joint. Assemble it. etc. till fully assembled. Get the ratchet strap around the ring and lightly tighten. Beat tap whatever until it looks good and tighten some more. Place the top waxed paper on top of that, set the hold down ply on top of the ring so segments buckle up in final clamp down, and quickly screw the lid to the subfloor. Then tighten that ratchet clamp pronto. A friend that is very handy could be a BIG help in the glue up. This is one way, the cheap way, I'd do it. There are others of course.
As for gluing the rings together, plane so they sister up nicely. Make witness marks once you are happy. Glue it and clamp it. Then bore the holes and through bolt.
As for strength, beats the heck out of me. I am not an engineer. My ring is on a 16' yurt, and it is plenty strong even with the heaviest snow load around here. But not as beefy as I think yours is gonna be. Good luck.
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