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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
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Hoop house - how to anchor down,
nan and stewart, 02/04/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Hoop house - how to anchor down, wiediger, 02/04/2001
- Re: Hoop house - how to anchor down, Bill Shoemaker, 02/05/2001
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