Go to the sides/ traps with 2 tie-downs ( stakes, boards trees, signs,etc.) and not your dolphin striker they can bend out. Don't ask me how I know. Plus you get less leverage to the middle, engineer boy. tshan is right about burying boards, I just use 2X 10s or 12s 2 or 3 feet long.


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