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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] roll up sides on tunnels
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:58:44 -0400 (EDT)
We tried to do roll-up sides with the greenhouse I worked at earlier in the
year. One side went together pretty easily. We taped the bottom of
the film to a continuous length of bar, composed of three lengths of pipe
slip-fit into each other, then with a crank on the end. It worked
beautifully. But the other side of the greenhouse, with the exact
same assembly, didn't work so well. The slip-fit joints for the roller bar
kept slipping, such that with each crank of the crank arm, the farther sections
of pipe would only roll 3/4 or even 1/2 way around instead of one full
revolution to match the crank arm. So there was a droop in the curtain at
the end of the house farthest away from the crank arm. When it was all
said and done, the one roll-up side would have made it seem like child's play,
but that second side was just not worth it. It probably would have been
faster to just tie it up as described below.
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at
frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
In a message dated 10/26/2011 10:46:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
eglatyne AT tds.net writes:
I don't use pipe with a handle to roll up the sides of my greenhouses |
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[Market-farming] roll up sides on tunnels,
eglatyne tds.net, 10/26/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] roll up sides on tunnels,
KAKerby, 10/26/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] roll up sides on tunnels, Richard Robinson, 10/26/2011
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