Does anyone out there have any good suggestions for leveling out display items at an out door show. Everything is off kilter and tipsy standing in a gopher-ridden field!
I, too use wooden blocks. Also, if possible and necessary I use bungee chords to add extra support by hooking one in the center of my screen (I use Graphic Display Screens). Of course, this only works if my booth is next to a tree. Also, it helps to bring an outdoor carpet as it helps to even out lumpy bumpy ground. This also helps keep customers from tripping and it makes the booth look nicer. You can get one at Lowe's or Home Depot.
The blocks work great as long as the surface is hard....we have legs to our tables that snap in that are round with curved up edges which is nice for the softer surfaces. And I also use similar on top of wood blocks (a low hard plastic bowl on top of rubber shelf liner) before putting the leg on it to help in case the block gets off kilter and the display starts to slide. Which has happened in the past. Also, old tennis balls cut in half can be used - even new ones. We use them for one of our shows where there are side bars that come out as deep as the booth with no protection on the ends - I have bruises to prove it. A couple of well placed tennis balls with holes cut into them are visually eye catching and help protect us.
Last year my MIL and I had a show and half of our booth was on lumpy ground and the other half was on uneven blacktop. It was also our first outdoor show so we were unprepared for a lot of things that came up. We improvised and use some wooden lawn steaks (booth number markers) on the blacktop but on the lumpy ground I had a couple of sand bags (about the size of a bean bag) that were normally used to weight down a display and we used those in one spot. They worked great to pad the hole and provide a stable surface for one of the table legs. We now keep them in the bag with the tent for the "just in case" times.
I have one show every year, located on a generational family farm, in a field- I carry blocks of wood, cut from 2x4's, that I can slip underneath table legs or grid feet. I just spray paint them black, so they blend into my table skirts, and aren't too visible. I also have used actual 2x4's, depending on the terrain! Even a large rock one time, when I couldn't find the blocks!
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I, too use wooden blocks. Also, if possible and necessary I use bungee chords to add extra support by hooking one in the center of my screen (I use Graphic Display Screens). Of course, this only works if my booth is next to a tree. Also, it helps to bring an outdoor carpet as it helps to even out lumpy bumpy ground. This also helps keep customers from tripping and it makes the booth look nicer. You can get one at Lowe's or Home Depot.
The blocks work great as long as the surface is hard....we have legs to our tables that snap in that are round with curved up edges which is nice for the softer surfaces. And I also use similar on top of wood blocks (a low hard plastic bowl on top of rubber shelf liner) before putting the leg on it to help in case the block gets off kilter and the display starts to slide. Which has happened in the past. Also, old tennis balls cut in half can be used - even new ones. We use them for one of our shows where there are side bars that come out as deep as the booth with no protection on the ends - I have bruises to prove it. A couple of well placed tennis balls with holes cut into them are visually eye catching and help protect us.
Last year my MIL and I had a show and half of our booth was on lumpy ground and the other half was on uneven blacktop. It was also our first outdoor show so we were unprepared for a lot of things that came up. We improvised and use some wooden lawn steaks (booth number markers) on the blacktop but on the lumpy ground I had a couple of sand bags (about the size of a bean bag) that were normally used to weight down a display and we used those in one spot. They worked great to pad the hole and provide a stable surface for one of the table legs. We now keep them in the bag with the tent for the "just in case" times.
I have one show every year, located on a generational family farm, in a field- I carry blocks of wood, cut from 2x4's, that I can slip underneath table legs or grid feet. I just spray paint them black, so they blend into my table skirts, and aren't too visible. I also have used actual 2x4's, depending on the terrain! Even a large rock one time, when I couldn't find the blocks!
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Leveling Panels