<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 14, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Jeff Scarbrough <<a href="mailto:fishplate@gmail.com" class="">fishplate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 2:59 PM Jim Franklin <<a href="mailto:jamesf@groupwbench.org" class="">jamesf@groupwbench.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
Any crazy ideas to get a 24 x 24 freestanding deck secured against destruction from frost heave movement and against uplift from hurricanes?</blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm trying to figure out what part of the world has hurricane winds and big frost heaving... But I haven't been everywhere yet.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>The northeast, in a belt where we're close enough to the ocean for its storms but far enough that we can have long stretches of sub-freezing temps. </div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What about digging down to the large rock </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div>It's not a ledge, they're all pieces of New Hampshire that were put into a rock tumbler for a few millenia. </div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Corrosion Acres, Ga.<br class=""><br class="">P.S. Maybe a wing on the deck will help with downforce.</div></div></div>
</blockquote><br class=""></div><div>That's a neat idea from an engineering perspective, but I can't help but think you were influenced by the local entertainment culture ;-)</div><br class=""></body></html>