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Old 05-23-2019, 06:52 PM   #1
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Default Alternatives to concrete piers

Greetings-

I bounced this idea around this forum a few years ago, but now it is pressing. We're replacing a ~40 year old 16' yurt that was handmade and sits on partially buried aspen rounds under the decking with a new, 20' yurt. The area is at ~8,000' and gets about 15 feet of snow a year (lots of digging). AND we are chartering a helicopter to fly in the yurt and all platform materials, as the site is over 1 1/2 miles from a road.

I see that some yurt manufacturers have decking packages that use mobile home jacks for the supports. Any experience with this method? Seems pretty appropriate, as they are for mobile homes and have some adjustment. The current structure really hasn't shifted or buckled much resting above the frost line, except where the aspen rounds rotted out and we went in with a bottle jack and releveled.

Any other lighter weight, semi-adjustable options out there that folks have used?

Thanks! Alex

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