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  • From: "wiediger" <wiediger AT email.msn.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Hoop house - how to anchor down
  • Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 09:17:30 -0600

On the frames we purchase from Atlas, they recommend that you dig a hole about 20" deep, drive the anchor stake into the bottom of the hole another 7" and pour cement around the anchor stake.  Hole should be about 6-8" in diameter. The bows are then attached to the anchor stakes.  We are on the top of a hill and get a lot of strong wind gusts.  We do not cement the ground stakes in.  We just drive the ground stakes in about 30".  On the Poly-Tex models, we drive lengths of pipe about 24" into the ground and slide the bows over the pipe, drill a hole through bow and pipe and then put a bolt through them.  We purchase lengths of pipe used for chain link fences, about 1-5/8" in diameter, and the 2" diameter pipe slides right down over them.
 
You definitely want to secure your frame to the ground in some manner.  Years ago, I had a frame take off on me.  I had just bolted the 4 corner posts into the ground stakes and the wind from the storm pulled the ground stakes on the west side of the frame out of the ground!  So now we attach most if not all.
 
If you are purchasing a kit, you might ask the manufacturer if they will mail you instructions ahead of shipping.  Many will do this for you and they usually contain a lot of valuable information on layout and assembly.
 
Paul
 
Paul and Alison Wiediger
Au Naturel Farm
http://aunaturelfarm.homestead.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 7:05 AM
Subject: Hoop house - how to anchor down

How do your models anchor the hoops to the side of the hoop house, and have you sunk the four corners into some type of concrete footing....or is there perimeter footing all around, or does it just rest on the ground, etc....
 



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