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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Hoop house - how to anchor down
  • Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:34:29 -0600

Hoop houses generally come with stand pipes. These are placed into the ground and serve as the foundation for the hoophouse. They are usually just large enough to allow you to slip the hoops into them. We drove ours into the ground about 18", leaving about 6" above the soil line. After slipping the hoops into them, we drilled a 3/8" hole through the stand pipe and hoop, about 3" above the ground. We then put a 3/8" hardened bolt through the hole and tightened it down. This locks the hoop and stand pipe together.
 
After three years of storms and high winds (up to fifty mph), I'm convinced it's sufficient to hold the hoophouse down. I think the plastic would tear before the house collapsed.
 
Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
-----Original Message-----
From: nan and stewart <stewart AT watervalley.net>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Sunday, February 04, 2001 8:05 AM
Subject: Hoop house - how to anchor down

This is especially for Alison and Lynn (G4M).....
 
I am about to order my hoop house, thanks to all the great advice from this listserve...
 
but in reviewing plans with my colleague who manages several greenhouses professionally (the Natural Products Center at Univ. of Miss, growing medicinal herbs....which if anyone is nearby enough, they usually have TONS of seedlings to give away in the spring - let me know)  I have this question:
 
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....
 
These questions came up as we are considering how best to prevent the hoop house from being carried away like Mary Poppins and her umbrella (besides the common sense precaution of NOT rolling up the sides when it is going to be a windy day)
 
The greenhouse will be sited with roof line running east to west (obviously, to catch winter sun to south).....the prevailing winds come up through the pasture and up the little knoll that it will sit on, but then will flow right over the rounded sides (with the sides DOWN)
 
still, I am willing to do something more serious about anchoring the hoop house than just "setting" it on the ground...
 
any last comments, advice?  much appreciated....nan
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