Pics have come online from my trackday..
https://jacks-snaps.smugmug.com/Trackdays/Darley-Moor/2022/22042022/Blue-Group/i-kFwtTBc/A
https://jacks-snaps.smugmug.com/Trackdays/Darley-Moor/2022/22042022/Blue-Group/i-kFwtTBc/A
Except for billies, who can be fearsome!!!
Its turkey wise
As we have huge winds and very hot sun over here we sank each pole in a 50kg bags wuff of concrete and put the most expensive and sun resistant poly on. Still standing and doing its job years later.
Only problem is vandals had a go at it a few years back and the mended holes don't look too purdy!
So I'd still go for a polytunnel as opposed to a green house. In the UK in the middle of a very normal estate without the winds etc, we still seem to be regularly replacing panes of glass.
Plastic connectors?
Jeez!
Ours all bolt together, and they have special storm strengthening triangulation to hold them against the wind.
Busy today but I can put pics up later.
But digging the holes and putting the base metal tubes in then filling each of the ten with concrete made sure they couldn't go anywhere.
If wifey can easily find the make I'll put it up.
I've always had good relationship with billy goats. If you treat their shenanigans as robust jovial horseplay you can play with them for ages. I push them backwards and then let them push me, and so on. They seem to enjoy it a great deal. It's very like their own social life with other goats. After a while they settle down and enjoy being stroked and patted. I've never met a goat that didn't like this sort of play and companionship. People tell me I have a way with animals, or maybe I've just been lucky.
We have doors on each end of ours but they have partial netting which lets a bit of the wind through. And although we have the massive Vent D'Autan blowing regularly we tried to put it up East-West, so in one direction it is sheltered by the house, and in the others by trees, although at some distance.
TBH I don't know if having wind blowing through it would be better or not. But certainly having wind blowing into it just one end would be well dodgy.
Sympathies , mate as it would break Wifey's heart if similar happened to hers.
I've only met them when I took some of the members of my car club on a trip to Normandy and visited a goat farm. Twas extremely full of goats and the billies were enormous with huge horns which they spent their time bashing into the woodwork.
I don't think they got played with much!!
Plastic connectors?
Jeez!
Ours all bolt together, and they have special storm strengthening triangulation to hold them against the wind.
Busy today but I can put pics up later.
But digging the holes and putting the base metal tubes in then filling each of the ten with concrete made sure they couldn't go anywhere.
If wifey can easily find the make I'll put it up.
I've never bought a polytunnel myself as I am far too vain to have one. I'd prefer a Victorian greenhouse with elaborate crank and pushrod arrangements for opening the windows. But I've assisted friends with theirs, all the way from installation to clearing up the tattered remains a few years later, in some cases. The better ones have metal clamps to join the frame together but I've come across a few (not the cheapest either) with plastic blocks where you slot the metal tubes into holes. They look quite chunky and strong when they're fresh out of the box but tend to get brittle a few years later. Because people know I enjoy manual work and have tools, if I get to know people it is only a matter of time before somebody says ' Can you come and help us with xxxxxx and we'll take you out for a curry'. Thousands of Brown hours have been wasted on other people's home and garden projects over the last five decades. I'm being really selfish these days and am just doing my own!
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We have doors on each end of ours but they have partial netting which lets a bit of the wind through. And although we have the massive Vent D'Autan blowing regularly we tried to put it up East-West, so in one direction it is sheltered by the house, and in the others by trees, although at some distance.
TBH I don't know if having wind blowing through it would be better or not. But certainly having wind blowing into it just one end would be well dodgy.
Sympathies , mate as it would break Wifey's heart if similar happened to hers.
My goodness me yes. There's a whole tsunami of grief when the polytunnel is finally reduced to a few bits of bent metal tube and shreds of plastic flapping in the hedge. Women who've carefully crafted identities for themselves in the earth goddess or hedge witch idiom and who spend their time potting in the 100% plastic polytunnel undergo a sort of bereavement process when nature eventually takes its course. I often say that the weather is just as much a part of nature as the cutesy bits, but that doesn't go down well.
If anyone is interested the owner of a web-community forum I belong to is a self-sufficiency fan and lives on a smallholding in Canada. Here are some of the things he sells construction plans for.
A portable Poultry run (I think he raises Turkeys), an electric cargo hauler and a poly-tunnel look-alike. The web address is www.atomiczombie.com/plans/
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That electric trike looks quite tempting. I could charge one off my solar panels and the running costs would be very reasonable. I'd like a quad bike but one that's suitable for agricultural use would tend to be quite expensive, so something like that would be a good DIY alternative.
Hicap phill
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Cadbury boost colours ????
Bad lighting, I'll get a better picture when it's done, too cold to paint today even though it's sunny, very cold wind.
