Like most big events in Iowa City, we set up this year’s Iowa City Jazz Festival by Summer of the Arts. This event included tents, stages, and much more.
This event had an amazing 40′ x 80′ hybrid tent, 12 French window sidewalls, 2′ X 2′ X 2′ blocks for tent ballast, 15′ x 15′ frame for entryway tent, 170K BTU heaters, 200 chiavari chairs w/cushions, 36 dance floor sections, 4 6′ x 30″ tables, 13 8′ x 30″ tables, 4 60″ table, 361 sections of…
We set up this 40′ x 60′ Hybrid event tent with three 2′ x 2′ x 2′ blocks. Because of the ever-changing weather in Iowa, they needed a patio heater to take the chill out of the air at night, and to keep them going we sent four 20lb propane tanks.
We set our 20′ x 60′ frame tent up at Harbor Freight Tools in Burlington, Iowa for an outdoor tent sale.
Big Ten Rentals set up three tents for this year’s Polar Plunge at Coralville Lake. 40′ x 100′ rope and pole, 30′ x 60′ rope and pole, and a 20′ x 40′ rope and pole. We also attached sidewalls to wrap the tents. Thirty 8′ tables and 200 black chairs make for a great event! Just add people and…
Jurassic Quest Enterprises contacted Big Ten Rentals to set up tents for their traveling dinosaur event. We set up a 60′ x 131′ (18m x 40 m) Clearspan tent and a 40′ x 100′ Elite rope and pole tent. The Clearspan tent needed cement blocks because we couldn’t drill into the ground. The event: Event Setup:
Political events tend to always be a last-minute setup. This one located in Hampton, IL (a little over an hour’s drive from Big Ten Rentals in Iowa City) was no exception. We were given just a little over 24 hours’ notice and delivered our 30′ x 10-row towable bleachers plus hundreds of “bike rack” barricades for crowd…
Efficiencies can be gained with short-duration rentals, which do not require a “double round trip.”
