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Installation Instructions
AA AnchorSpan™
30', 40', 50' & 60' Wide
Please read all assembly / installation instructions before the installation or removal of this product.
7701 Highway 41 N
Evansville, IN 47725
Phone: 812-867-2421
Fax: 812-867-1429
1-800-544-4445
email: tents@anchorinc.com
www.anchorinc.com
EC5549
ASPANAA 920

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  • Page 1 Installation Instructions AA AnchorSpan™ 30’, 40’, 50’ & 60’ Wide Please read all assembly / installation instructions before the installation or removal of this product. 7701 Highway 41 N Evansville, IN 47725 Phone: 812-867-2421 Fax: 812-867-1429 1-800-544-4445 email: tents@anchorinc.com www.anchorinc.com...
  • Page 4 Installation Time chart -- Estimates Time and Crew Requirements Guidelines for Disassembly Weights, Measures and Suggestions for Packing and Storing Template Drawings for Baseplates and End Upright Anchor Plates Base Loads for Temporary Structures -- Wind Reactions at Baseplates Rafter Chart for 30’, 40’, 50’ & 60’ AnchorSpan™...
  • Page 5 2 per end upright (both 60’ and adjustable) 42” Double Head Steel Stakes 4 per baseplate + 6 per sloped end AA AnchorSpan Installation Kit Kit of Assembly Tools unique to Anchor Optional Tools/ Accessories Not in kit (Priced and Sold Separately) Century Winch Bar Tool For tensioning sloped end panels Socket Wrench, 1/2”...
  • Page 6 ANCHORSPAN™ TERMINOLOGY Apex Long Rafter (10’7”) Mid Panel (typ) Short Rafter (5’3”) SpanLatch Purlins (typ) Base Column 2 pc. Gabled End Panel Wing Eave Bracket (catenary tensioned) (underside of beam at each gabled end) Wing Eave Bar (inside fabric) Wing Wall Baseplate and fabric tensioning winch Wing Wall Ground Bar...
  • Page 7 AA ANCHORSPAN™ COMPONENT ILLUSTRATIONS Long Apex Assembly (Both ends are female) Male End w/Splice at Top Short 40’ Rafter Mid-Eave Bar Bracket Assembly AA Extrusion for 50’ Rafter Beam & End Upright Assembly 60’ Rafter Assembly Gabled End Center Bars...
  • Page 8 Furthermore, if your application of this structure requires meeting any other loading or other code compliance, you should then contact Anchor Industries to confirm whether your unit has been configured to meet those code requirements. Generally, anchoring with standard tent stakes will not meet code. Depending upon load rat- ings, permanent anchoring will require at least one of the following: Multiple Staking —...
  • Page 9 AA ANCHORSPAN™ INSTALLATION SAFETY GUIDELINES Your own installation techniques will evolve to fit the varied needs of your clients, the experience level of your installation crews, the nature of other tentage that may be common to the installation site being planned, and the equipment that you may have previously available or with which you feel most comfortable.
  • Page 10 (2) Diagonal Beam Braces (2) Eave Bar Cradles Additional Tools (Available from Anchor) This list of tools is also suggested for the installation of the AnchorSpan™. They are available from Anchor Industries or from your local hardware or lumber stores.
  • Page 11 15’ 42’ 5-1/8” Footprint Layout: (Note: For each structure sold, Anchor provides a specific Footprint Drawing showing plate locations, diagonals and loading requirements for proper anchoring. * Strike a straight line for “side 1” of the structure according to desired site orientation.
  • Page 12 AA ANCHORSPAN™ HARDWARE PATTERN For Gabled End Configuration for Beam Assembly (on the ground)

  • Page 13: Beam Assembly

    Internal splices pre-installed on male ends. Not visible after installation. At each joint, male ends point toward the apex. Apex Long Rafter Short Rafter Base Column BEAM ASSEMBLY Pin to baseplate, using 9” bent arm pin (bent Swing wide to assemble then reposition and pin arm to outside) to baseplate Beam Assembly:...
  • Page 14 BEAM ASSEMBLY COMPLETE Continue assembling beams until all are completed flat on the ground, as above. Install SpanLatch Purlins and Cross-Cabling On all but the first end beam to be raised, bolt the fixed ends of SpanLatch purlins to the top of the 2”...
  • Page 15 (Before Erecting beams, see optional ground installation of the Gabled End Panel on Page 18. In other than windy conditions, this can allow the ground-lacing of gabled end panels and ease the later installation of end uprights, as well.) Erect Beams using the Gin Pole Method (See figure below) Attach an eyebolt/eye nut fitting (see installation kit on Page 4) to the top of the end upright to be used as a gin pole (the 60’...
  • Page 16 First beam standing with diagonal brace installed Diagonal Brace Safety Lines Pull Ropes Gin Pole Diagonal Braces Installed Erecting the 2nd Beam. Erect the 2nd beam the same as above, except that the beam harness hooks to the top hole in the fixed end of the apex purlin. And, instead of diagonal beam braces, the 2nd beam is stabilized by connecting its SpanLatch™...
  • Page 17 Engage SpanLatch Purlins between 1st & 2nd beam Push SpanLatch above joint, then hook and pull purlin downward onto Purlin Spacer to engage and latch. Use short purlin tool on low purlins, long purlin tool on high purlins Safety Lines 2nd beam pivoted same as 1st, but secured by SpanLatch Purlins, rather that diagonal...
  • Page 18 Beam & Cabling System (Complete) Cables (Blue = 60’) (Yellow = 50’) (Black = 40’) Cables (Red) Cables (Green) Optional: Gabled Ends Pre-Installed Fabric Installation (Middle Panels): (See top of page 16) Before installing fabric, be sure cross- cabling has been installed and tightened to absorb the wind load the fabric will transfer to the beam system.
  • Page 19 Installation of Middle Panels 2nd beam pivoted same as 1st, but secured by SpanLatch Purlins, rather that diagonal brace. Clip rope to fabric panel SpanLatch Purlins WIND Rope to workers for pulling 2 workers to fed fabric into channels Middle panels between beams (ready for installation) 2 to 4 workers for pull ropes...
  • Page 20 Tensioning of Middle Panels Insert web tail through spindle. Ratchet handle up & down to tension fabric Tuck kedar tail downward into outer beam channel Tensioning of Middle Panels: (See Above) 1. Tuck the fabric tails of each panel downward into the beam channel flare until all middle panel kedar rests within the outer beam channel.
  • Page 21 Installation of 2-pc Gabled End Panel (See bottom of Page 17) 1. Install Gabled End panel into Lower Beam Channel (same as liner channel) on the outer facing surfaces of the first and/or last beam. 2. Because the flared opening in the liner channel is approximately 9 1/2 feet high, a small step ladder will be useful in feeding the gabled end fabric into the beam channel.
  • Page 22 Lift upright until T-fitting enters slot, then rotate upright 90 degrees with offset to the inside (as shown). (Do not anchor the uprights until after the eave bars have been installed.) Correct Sequence for Installing End Framing Note: 40’...
  • Page 23 Tensioning of Gabled End Panel: (See Below) (If you are installing a 40’ or 50’ span, see appendix page “X-3” on end center bars before tensioning the gabled end.) For 30’ and 60’ spans, proceed as follows: 1. Tension the gabled end using standard ratchet hooked into baseplate adapter bar at each side of the structure.
  • Page 24 ANCHORSPAN™ WALL SYSTEMS (with Loop & Grommet Lacing) Top loop passes up and over the mid eave bar connector. 2nd loop passes through 1st grommet, then interweaves with top loop. continue with loop and grommet lacing. STANDARD TENT LACE (Each loop passes through grommet & preceding loop Insert kedar into liner 1st Grommet channel of beam...
  • Page 25 Unlike the middle walls, end walls and wing walls use the smaller pattern cathedral window design familiar to users of Anchor pole tents and frame tents. This allows the end wall to lace down the centerline without disturbing the cathedral window pattern.
  • Page 26 Weights, Measures and suggestions for packing and storage Template Drawings for the baseplates and the anchor plates for end uprights Baseloads for Temporary Structures -- the wind reaction force on each anchor plate Rafter Chart for Interchangeability beam components. X-10 Assembly Sequence at a Glance.
  • Page 27 ADAPTER WALLS (to Fiesta and Century Frame Tents) ® ® Folded envelope Wall Hooks to sandwiches to inside Fiesta Wall rope & outside of A-span Channel hooks to fabric panels A-span Eave Bar Grommets with lace cord (to Fiesta legs) Down Spouts (Run 10’...
  • Page 28 End Framing with End Center Bars Insert Spike into 40’ End Center Bar Hole in Apex Beam SIDE VIEW 40’ Gabled End Frame Lower End Cradles over End Eave Bar 50’ End Center Bar 50’ Gabled End Frame 40’ and 50’ End Frames with the End Center Bar Unlike the 30’...
  • Page 29 AA ANCHORSPAN™ INSTALLATION TIME ESTIMATES # of Beams Length of Unit 30’Span 40’Span 50’Span 60’Span (15’ beam spacing) (Times include installation of 2 gabled ends) In Feet Man Hours Man Hours Man Hours Man Hours 12 -- (2) 13.2 --(2.2) 15 -- (2.5)
  • Page 30 GUIDELINES FOR DISASSEMBLY Fabric: Walls -- Remove Ground Bars; Unlace the 2-pc wall; slide hooks out of eave bar channel, and pull kedar up and out of liner channels of beam and outer channels of end uprights. Gabled Ends -- Release tension by jamming ratchet handles to full vertical position and removing the web at end uprights and at beam baseplates.
  • Page 31 AA ANCHORSPAN™ COMPONENT WEIGHTS & MEASURES Part/Assembly Description Weight Dimensions Volume Packing Comments/Suggestions Lbs. Ea. (Nominal) in cu. ft. (Dimensions are to widest points) Base Column Assembly 4”x4’8”x17’9” [27.6} 4’8” is measured across the curve Apex Assembly 4”x4’8”x14’7” [13] Stacks within the curve of base column 40’...
  • Page 33 AA ANCHORSPAN™ BASE LOADS FOR TEMPORARY STRUCTURES ASCE 7-93 Modified for Temporary Use Only (Revised 4-7-99) Also see Introduction, Page 5 “For Permanent Installations”. “A” UPWARD “E” INWARD “B” “D” OUTWARD LATERAL TO FRAME *Includes wind loading -- appropriate “C”...
  • Page 34 Male ends consist of pre-installed splices protruding from the end of beam section. We suggest leaving these splices installed during storage of beams. Expertly manufactured in Evansville, IN, USA by: ANCHOR INDUSTRIES INC. 1-800-544-4445 • ph. 1-812-867-2421 • fax 1-812-867-0547 • www.anchorinc.com • e-mail: tents@anchorinc.com...
  • Page 35 Unload basic tools, tape measures, baseplates, stake drivers, and stakes. (Note: If this is a certified installation, concrete footings & anchor bolts should be in place and cured prior to installation day.) Layout footprint pattern, and decide direction beams will be raised. Note that the first beam to be raised will receive the end beam bolt assemblies mentioned in the detailed instructions.
  • Page 36 NOTES X-11...
  • Page 37 We stand firm on our policy to correct any defect in the AnchorSpan™ or component thereof (including bearing the cost of freight in and out of Anchor Industries) dur- ing the first year of use on fabric and three years on frame components. Normal wear and tear or damage due to acts of God, exposure to chemicals, chemical agents or improper installation are not considered to be defects.
  • Page 38 WARNING...