How to Bend Poles │ DIY Greenhouse
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- The method I am using to bend poles for a hoop house. I am currently building 60 ft of hoop houses and I have found this works best for me.
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Your tip about measuring both ends 9 inches and bending both directions makes for more uniform bends. Many thanks!
Good info for anyone wanting to try bending their own. Nice job. Hulked it...Haha!
Looks like professional quality work.
Really nice video showing what to do and what not to do. Thank you!
I'm a bit late to this type of project. . . however, your video is an excellent guide as I too plan on making a "hoop house" 24 feet long and 10 feet wide to house my backyard built wooden boat. Thank you for an easy to follow instructive video! Happy new year 2022!
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Not sure I would have thought about turning it around. I probably add an extender and ruin the end of the pipe for the first couple. Thanks for the tip!
The extender still works. I just found this way to be a little easier for me.
I was hoping you'd instruct me on that! Right on, Nate, for reading my mind!
Great minds think alike :)
Great video buddy👍👍 thank you for the video. I bought the 20' foot hoop bender but havent had the time to tinker with it yet, you had some good info.
Great video. It's a wonderful thing ( not to mention a real money saver ) to learn from your experience rather than my own personal trial and error, and I'm getting a lot of good ideas. Thanks.
I am glad to hear that you found this useful, Lois!
Brilliant!! and thanks for sharing. I feel more confident now t try it myself. :)
Seems like to me you could build your own bending jigs using plywood in any radius that you need. Just stack it with a channel in the middle to bend the pipe in.
great video very informative, thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience with us
Thanks for the information I appreciate it !
I am making a series of raised bed gardens for my wife. I have never done this before, and she says we have some terrible vegetable eating bugs here in Central Texas, so she wants row covers. I watched your video on bending pipe, but I'm using smaller 1/2" metal conduit, 10 foot lengths, and I bought a regular electricians' conduit bender. I was able to make 4' hoops by doing 9 bends of 20 degrees each (22.5 deg marked on the bender). One at dead center, and 4 more to each side, every 9 inches. I think I can use this to do any size hoops I want with this material, using 1/2" electrical conduit and a little bit of math, rather than buying a different hoop bender for every bed size.
Yep. I am thinking of doing something similar for my raised beds but with plastic to make mini greenhouses out of 1/2 metal conduit. If I go that route I will build my own bender. Honestly, I thought the top rail would be a lot harder to bend.
@@TinyHilltop If you're using an electricians bender just remember that the "Star" is not the exact center of the bend. By trial and error I found that the center of the bend is about 1" beyond the "Star" from the pipe inlet side of the bender. It sounds nitpicky on a 10' pipe, but when the bend uses up most of the pipe, having one straight end longer than the other by 1" does cause it to noticeably tilt relative to an even-sided one.
Hope you are doing better with the health issues.
You're doing an awesome job Nate thanks for the insight details thumbs up
Thank you for watching!
Nicely done Nate! I will be building a few of these this Spring so thank you for the demo. All the best, Ryan:)
Thanks, Ryan! I will be following along this spring as your complete yours. :)
Its gonna be an awesome Hoop house bro,,cant wait to see the next step..Best wishes
Thank you. I am excited to get it finished and get some seeds in the dirt!
Do you have experience with gothic arch hoops? If so, please make a video.
Great info, I'm going to do it too.
Best of luck!
thanks Bro.
Good explanation!!! Well done!!!
Mark all poles first on each end. This to funny now lol
Flipping over is a great idea!
great
How did you bent the pipes of the jig
I got the jig from bootstrap farmer.
i have a leach field that i cant do anything with so i thought that i would put a hoophouse there with some raised beds and container plants...this would be perfect...hopefully i can do this this summer...in Ohio by the way...
That does sound like a perfect spot for one. I have a drainage field too and I haven't decided what to do with it quite yet.
Nice channel here
Thank you, Zalina, I am glad you're enjoying it.
Same here, you explain in a nice clear way, I’m getting ready to do a hoop house, first have to finish my 14 by 14 wall panel garage for the bobcat an$. Tools, Poly house are becoming very popular due to food costs going thru the roofs, gardens are nice but I see chickens
soon, and some turkeys maybe, easy to raise and well protein trumps. Lettuce every time, I live in Michigan, but I wanted to do apples, pears, etc, then I woke up, long term investment,,,,,I’m getting real, my poly house is more for storage of equipment, What I grow I grow in the basement, ,lol. Peace. An$ thanks , the info has made more savvy,,,,
Hi, what material is the pipe and what size and schedule?
are you bending 1.375 inch top fence pipe or 1 inch conduit? I have see a video where they use 3/4 inch electrical conduit for 4 ft wide hoop. For small high tunnel 6.5 ft high and 8 ft wide would you say 1 inch conduit would be fine since they use the 1.375 for large high tunnels.
This was top rail. You could probably do something similar with conduit, though.
Good Vid! Thanks.
where do we buy the pole bender device or??
How much pipe are you pushing through in between bends? Does it matter? I am having trouble keeping an even bend, but maybe I need to push less pipe through the end in between bends? help please!
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Thank you for watching, Jean.
Now the question is, how do you bend the poles you use to bend the poles.
I got that from bootstrap farmer
Randy Hickey?
If want to build a hoop house for 30 feet wide and 12 feet high from the ground, what is the length of galvanized pipe do I need?
I am not sure. I got the plans from Bootstrap farmer. They might have a better idea.
Looking good brother... what is your material cost so far and are you on track of what you estimate is?.. I hope your Lemon trees are doing well.
I am not sure on the 20 footer. I am using a lot of materials I already had. The poles are 9 dollars a piece because I hit the bulk pricing discount. The 40 footer I will have a materials list for. That will be all new material.
He forgot to tell everyone to be good! LOL
Question!! Where do you buy your poles? Can we buy it at a big box store?
They are top rail from Home Depot.
@@TinyHilltop thanks:)
Hello, can you communicate via Facebook for explanation?
Why not just put a marker link on the deck from edge to 9 inches set the pole at that mark then just mark the pole. SHM. Why keep grabbing the measuring tape TWICE when you can just mark off with a line from the edge of the wood in 9 inches. Men are so funny!
Your hands are still green. Lol
Good explanation!!! Well done!!!