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lol. I feel your pain. Becky and I were just talking at dinner and she says “I watched the video and we need to paint the ceiling”. 😂. It’s not finished I guess.

It took a couple hours and a good set of bolt cutters. Luckily it didn’t damage the tiller.

There are 18 holes in a 12’ channel. So they are about 8” apart down the channel. The drain pipe is 4” diameter. The channels can fit into the drain at different widths but most of the drain holes are on 6” spacing. The end caps are nsf pvc glued. We add some glue occasionally after cleaning to insure we don’t develop any pinhole or hairline crack leaks at the drain end cap. The 45 degree elbows are not glued on, they are just hand fitted. Thanks for following our channel, hope this answers all your questions.

It is identical to crop king but has no markings. It was in the used greenhouse that we bought, dismantled and moved to our farm. Thanks for watching. Message if you have any other questions.

It was a prior renter of the ground. They missed a panel in their clean up. We got it out and no damage but it took about 2.5 hours to get it cleared out of the equipment.

Thanks for following. There are several videos on the system in the farming playlist.

I did invest in a good set of gel knee pads which helps tremendously.

Thanks for watching and reply. I can’t copy your message into a translator so I can understand.

Thanks for following us! I looked at a few abandoned greenhouses locally. I knew of this one which had been bought out so the buying company effectively bought the customers this business had built up in the ATL market. They consolidated the operations into their own infrastructure and left these abandoned. They wanted it gone so they could sell the real estate. We made an offer for pennies on the dollar of new. It had all the nft systems still in it.

@@steveale0711 Thanks

Hi! These were in the used greenhouse we purchased and moved to our farm. These appear to be crop king channels. There were some others that looked like the ones on amhydro. But the UV made those brittle over the years and they would break or crack when moving. Looks like none of them are cheap.

@@steveale0711 that’s what it looks like to me , that’s a cool greenhouse good luck with it you guys should do good , thanks for getting back to me .

Good suggestion! So far it’s working pretty well with just the wingnut and washer. Now in season 2 using it. Planted about 1000 bed feet last week of a variety of seeds with no issues.

Each bay is 30’x140’. It’s gutter connected so it’s 60x140 single space. That is about 8,400 square feet.

@@steveale0711 thank you for sharing

Thanks! We did cover it. This was a first step setup. We now have in ground reservoirs and intellidose controllers. Appreciate you watching our channel!

This is Becky!! And I agree 🙂🤪🤪🙂Thank you for making him aware of that😂😂And thanks for following us. Time is getting short and I still have oh so much to learn but getting better day by day. Am I a bit nervous, well maybe but I am in 100 percent 🛥️🛟🚦

Yeah Charles…thanks for adding another “to do” for my list. 😂😂😂

Appreciate you following our channel!

We had my mom and sister seeding one day. Another day a guy who works with us came and seeded about 6 hours. Becky and I seeded those days plus one additional. I now know how much labor is in each tray, good news is going forward we can labor hire all the seeding and still have a decent net in the effort.

lol. Yeah I feel it. Trying to find our farm manager. Winter won’t be a problem but I have to have that person in place for the summer if we are going to do the Great Lakes.

We’re going to see some teens overnight and highs only around freezing. But if the sun is out the greenhouse will be 80+ degrees. Gotta go turn the heaters up on the boat before it hits.

Yes, it runs 24x7

They are about 2” across. There were several thousand in the greenhouse we purchased along with the nft channels.

@@steveale0711 do you find you need the net cup or could you just use Rockwood cubes directly in the holes. The channels I am purchasing have pre drilled 1inch holes on 8inch centers. Thanks for the help

@@aaronbaker-zn2xe I’ve used cups, no cups and taped my round 2” openings to allow a square Oasis cube no clearance for light. The tape to reduce to a square hole is problematic. The cubes tend to topple over if you bump the channel and it’s difficult to fish them back upright. The cups in the round holes block some light/algae growth but then you have to damage the roots to separate the cup at harvest. The cubes straight in the channel is cleanest but you trade off a little algae growth through the seedling stage. I have the cups so I use them mainly. But no cups works fine too.

Thanks!

lol. It was fabricated. The parts that attach to the forks were purchased on Amazon. They are trailer hitch ball holders made to go on pallet forks.

After running it this way a season. It does ok. Pellet seed gets ground up and binds up the seed plate some but it’s manageable.

Я к семенам подмешиваю немного талька из детской присыпки.Это делает их скользкими и уменьшает трение между диском и стенкой бункера.

We seem to always have warm spells the first part of November as well. I will say another local garlic grower gets his in October and is usually harvesting 3-4 weeks ahead of us. He only grows softnecks where we grow those plus hardnecks. I’ve always worried about too much early heat on those hardnecks so we wait until at least November 1st, our average first frost date.

Those days are going to return the way things are going.

This idea popped into my head. I’ve seen motorized ones on 5th wheel horse trailers for years. I was amazed how fast the support goes up and down with no load but even under load it’s way quicker and easier than doing it by hand. Handle stays in the box in case my impact gun dies or is unavailable. I’m modifying all my trailers with this!!!!

Not everybody can afford the paint or the right kind of contractor. This works OK and is easier to apply and use as needed in the summer. That paint isn't cheap.

We started just before Covid in 2019. I recall seeing a farm on the news after the Covid lockdowns and they only sold to restaurants. As a result their sales dropped to zero. I realized right then that a diversified sales strategy was critical. We currently do 2-3 markets a week during season. We sell to some restaurants and direct to consumer. As we scale we want to go into stores but the wholesale channel is very competitive with very small margins. We are about 60 miles north of downtown ATL.

@@steveale0711 wow thanks!! I’m loving the process so far. Been in tech / coding for 30 years and will slowly start to transition to only farming. I’ll stay in touch! Would be awesome to visit one day!

I had a larger percentage of loss due to soft bulbs in the trays. We hung half the harvest and the loss was noticeably less. We will go back to hanging. I think it doesn’t get enough air and I may have put too many in each tray due to the lack of enough trays to spread them out more. We did around 4K but are increasing to 6k this season.

Thanks for watching! The gutter is poly material from crop king. They were in the greenhouse we purchased. I’ve seen the same comments on pvc. I do look for “NSF” on water and drain pipe to insure its drinking water safe. On metal gutters you would want to stay away from galvanized coatings. I’ve see some setups use non painted aluminum. We were fortunate to have these commercial systems already in the greenhouses.

@@steveale0711 Gotcha thanks!! I'll check out your other videos but I'm curious how you "harvest"... Do you just pull the gutters out and pull the produce that way? Maybe I'm missing something but doesn't look there's enough room to walk to the side and pull out the lettuce. Thanks again

@@Deep.Development I will make a video of harvest and planting for you. Just pull the gutter out of the drain and lay it over the walkway between the 2 sides. Or put it on a cart then pull each lettuce out of the holes. It may take me a couple days to get the video posted.

ok that makes sense, that's what i thought. no need to go out of your way, thanks for the info!!@@steveale0711

Charles, agree. I read a lot of reviews on a variety of different bilges. They all seem to have about the same percentage of favorable reviews. I rolled the dice on this less expensive solution. It’s good to hear your experience has been positive.

I forgot about this video so it should cover your question about the rack and it’s configuration that holds the gutters.

@dariusbaldeo4935 sure! It’s a square steel tubing rack made for the gutters. I have some others to assemble in the next couple weeks so I will video it. Working on an auto dosing controller currently. Video on it coming soon!