An idiot like him with a somewhat higher level of construction skills. He used to do it for a living, after all.
"Not the sticks, the tarp! Drape it down and hold down the edge!" Suiting actions to words, Clint stretches out the blanket construction he'd just put together, pulling out the blanket so that the end not taped to the sticks rests in one of the furrows where there aren't any plants. It's not even necessary to look for rocks to hold the edge of the blanket down; he's wearing gloves, and he simply grabs some of the larger hailstones and piles them along the edge, scooping more hailstones to make the hold secure. The entire thing looks a little silly, maybe, but the sticks are holding one whole side of the blanket nearly a foot off the ground while the rest of it slopes down to eventually touch the dirt. It's not perfect - there's still a chance a stone could get too big or heavy and crash through or break the sticks - but for now there's an angled shelter over all the plants the blanket's big enough to cover and any hail that hits it will just slide down to the edge. Clint moves back to the sticks to start taping another blanket to the sticks, making the tripods a little more balanced and adding a mirrored "wing" to the other side so it really did look like a very flat tent.
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"Not the sticks, the tarp! Drape it down and hold down the edge!" Suiting actions to words, Clint stretches out the blanket construction he'd just put together, pulling out the blanket so that the end not taped to the sticks rests in one of the furrows where there aren't any plants. It's not even necessary to look for rocks to hold the edge of the blanket down; he's wearing gloves, and he simply grabs some of the larger hailstones and piles them along the edge, scooping more hailstones to make the hold secure. The entire thing looks a little silly, maybe, but the sticks are holding one whole side of the blanket nearly a foot off the ground while the rest of it slopes down to eventually touch the dirt. It's not perfect - there's still a chance a stone could get too big or heavy and crash through or break the sticks - but for now there's an angled shelter over all the plants the blanket's big enough to cover and any hail that hits it will just slide down to the edge. Clint moves back to the sticks to start taping another blanket to the sticks, making the tripods a little more balanced and adding a mirrored "wing" to the other side so it really did look like a very flat tent.