Market Farming

[Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>]

On 12/31/2011 at 6:55:58 PM, Todd Lister wrote:
> Keith,
> Great response. Pretty much in line with what I thought. Briefly, can you
> give me an idea of your approach to altering an existing house to be 
> movable?
> I've got a 30x72 NRCS/Equip  house and a few 48' houses, one x 24 and one x
> 30. Sure wish I could convert at least one of the shorter ones. I am a 30+
> year carpentry mechanic and have felt for a while that I should make the
> move. My local agent in rural Georgia was quite skittish when I inquired
> about it prior to the award. I knew it was viable because I had read 
> positive
> things on the net. Foolishly, I went with the stationary. Any feedback
> greatly appreciated. Todd Lister Vesta, Ga

The Rimol house uses off-the-shelf wheels at the base of each bow, riding on 
a pipe track.
It would not be hard to convert a stationary house to a rolling one by 
attaching such
wheels to your bows. You can see a picture in the gallery section of the 
Rimol site. The
wheels can be sourced through chain-link fence suppliers.

http://www.rimolgreenhouses.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=734
click on "More photos here"

the house needs to be attached to groundposts, which can be done in a variety 
of ways.
Mine uses struts about 3 feet long, clamped to the bow on one end and the 
groundpost on
the other end.

The endwalls need to be framed in such a way that the base of the wall can be 
liberated
from the ground on moving day. For mine, this means the verticals terminate 
at a
horizontal member about 18" above the ground. That horizontal member is 
attached to a
short piece of tubing that in turn slips into a ground post that sits just 
below the level
of the horizontal. On moving day, I undo this assembly. The downside of this 
arrangement
is that I need to step over that 18" going in and out of the house. I think 
it would be
easy enough to build an endwall to avoid this problem.


  Richard Robinson
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