For heaven's sake Jim. Until 15 minutes and 47 seconds ago I didn't know what a hoop house was. Now I want one. First bees, now a hoop house. I need a small farm. Great video!
It's an unheated greenhouse! You might call them high tunnels over there. If I put a heat source in here, I could call it a "greenhouse" but since it's only solar powered, it's a "hoophouse." They're definitely nice to have around!
We call similar structures polytunnels here, though they are often temporary, moveable structures rather than the semi-permanent appearance of yours. They are frequently used for forcing early tomatoes etc. There are acres and acres of them in southern Spain from which comes the UK's early spring salad veg. Looking forward to seeing the produce from your hoop house. Best to all for the spring.
What I like the most, this is for a single-person assemble instructions. That'd be me. I checked my farming area, no hoops or materials to build my own. I did see a pipe/pole bender; may go back and get it. I need a scaled down version too, for my residential backyard. My eyes are always bigger for what I want, then what I have room. I love the trickery and humor with the (reverse) instruction process; pretty awesome dude! You Rock!
Like DGB said this is by far the best instructional video on how to build a hoop-house thank you so much, I am looking forward this spring to build mine LOL.Thanks so much!
Great videos. I watched yours yesterday and you inspired me to search for a used house. Found a 30x75 posted for $1000. Just checked it out and bought it today. Thanks for the information. You saved me a ton of $$$
Vino Farm it’s in Laurel Delaware about a hour and a half from my house. We went down to look at it and the frame was in great shape. It came with a fan two vents side skirts a new roll of plastic and the even offered to take it down for me. I couldn’t pass it up.
Shoreboy Shoreboy That’s a great deal. I recommend you be there to help take it down. It will really help to know where everything goes when you’re putting it back together! Glad this video helped!
Thank you for taking the time and effort to make and post this video. Very nice discussion of how to square up the layout. Very nice editing, too; impressive reversal of the video in places. Good tip on checking craigslist. All nicely done.
I actually learnt something today. I never understood what the hypotenuse was until now. Cheers for that. In the past if I wanted to mark out a rectangle. I would peg out the four corners, then measure diagonal
Center purlin on every house I’ve built goes outside as you stated on each arch except for the end walls. It should go inside the hoop of the end wall so that the wire channel fits on most houses or plastic seals tight when stretched if using batten boards on others without a pressure point like that would make on the outside of the end arch. Other than that, this is one of the best examples for building houses on you tube! Well done my friend! Chuck
I Have 8 32 foot long by 15 foot wide hoop houses made from free scrapyard found "Rhino" brand carport kits that someone threw the whole thing away because the first end frame became damaged from someone running into it with a car or snowplow etc. and i bought cheap 10 foot long 3/4 inch electrical conduit (steel) to add additional wind bracing and i bought bags of concrete to fill 5 gallon buckets to make anchors every 8 feet. Other than that i bought the greenhouse film and attachment parts and got a good start for under $250.
Nice to see one proper built. Trouble with the plastic pipe hoop houses is if there's a heavy snow or a strong storm your $1000 and time could be wasted.
Very nice want more details about in costal sea aera in havy wind it will be protect howand whT is the temprater in Nd out side same modle can be use has a poly dryer can we construction by own
can you buy metal poles already bent as a hoop? whre would one find them, besides criages list? can you buy straight poles and bend them yourself without special tool?
My house property was a pottery dump a long time ago (I live in Ohio) and the people that dumped the pottery decided it wasn’t enough and when I tried to dig to plant a tree I found a whole cinderblock
Good video. At 12:26, you can just use a self drilling screw and you will achieve the same result. No drilling through, or bolts, washers, and nuts. I like how easy you got the first purlin on 😉.
The bolts give me peace of mind, but yes, self tappers might be sufficient. I have had my other hoop house lift right out of the ground posts before I learned to bolt them down. Wind is powerful.
I have an idea of a drip watering system in each greenhouse, and the main feed piped in from a building with water lines and before the line to the greenhouses a whole house filter or several and sprinkler timers.
Even though I know the Pythagorian theorem there is another way that is easy. I've been in home building construction 38+ years. One way we used was 3 + 4 = 5 or any combination of that works. What does that mean? Measure along one site from the corner and put a mark at 3 feet. Measure the other side from the same corner and put a mark at 4 feet. Then measure diagonally across to each points, it will be 5 feet if it is square. Likewise, you can do 6 + 8 = 10 or 9 + 12 = 15 etc.
Yes. It was very informative. I did not know that they need a special type of covering. And aside from using extra capacity measuring tape and Pythagoras, once again he made it look easy
To get a nice right angle you can use a 3 4 5 triangle (or multiple of). Measure 3ft one way and then 4ft another, between those two points should be 5ft, also works for metres.
Yes, that's the same thing as the hypotenuse calculator. It's difficult to keep things square with 3/4/5 on a 50 or 100 foot scale. You could do 6/8/10 or 12/16/20, but at that point, I prefer to just get a specific hypotenuse and be exact. Especially with google right in my pocket.
Am looking into building a hoop house and your video came up. Think I will sub, bell and like. I think I will stick around and see what you have going on. Some will fork for me some may not, I am in Central Kentucky, Go Cats. But after watching your intro and you fixing the termite problem, you are a hard worker and I like that. See you around.
13:38 the hoops are shaking BEFORE you threw the perlin, thus obviously the film is being played backwards. How did you actually get the perlin on top/center? How many assistants did it take?
This video is a bit tongue-in-cheek. To put the purlins up, you do it one by one (They are in 10' sections.) You stand on a ladder and just bolt them on the hoops individually. It basically looks like the video at 14:00. (FYI, If you haven't figured it out, the entire video was edited in reverse.)
@@vinofarm Lol jokes on me! haha. There were a couple sections in Part 1 i thought MIGHT be in reverse, but only this one was clear. I watched Part 2 immediately afterwards and it was pretty obvious. Thanks for making me laugh, and the instructions, too :-)
chad eller I tried to make Part 2 more obvious as a reveal to what was happening. It was fun to shoot. There is a bit of trickery, but the info is legit! Thanks for watching.
I just wanted to say thank you so much Vino Farm i have learned a lots just from watching your video. We are residing in Mesa and San Tan Valley in Arizona and been wanting to have my own garden and green house by watching you i am sure will build one when we more to Carthage or Pine hurt North Carolina. You have show me where to find the cheap material but, can you please tell me how you do it all by yourself getting the plastic over the Hoop house and that is pretty amazing and where do you get plastic and what type of Ply plastic ? Thank you in advance Phil
Google: "greenhouse plastic roll 4-year" There are many places that sell it. We have a farm supply business near us and I can go pick it up. Most online places will ship it. Just make sure you're buying real greenhouse plastic with UV protection. The stuff you get at home depot will disintegrate in a year. The "4-year" plastic we put on your hoophouse in 2009 is in it's 12th year and still holding up fine after 11 New England winters.
Will a trampoline frame fit inside those ground posts? Those stove bolt screws stick out. Will they rip plastic? Did you use those same screws on the perlin?
Great job man! Q. Q. please. I have a fish pond which is 6.5mX10m and would like to make a shade for it; to prevent algae from forming in it. Is this possible with pvc pipes? TIA
There's no cement foundation here. The ground posts have good holding power on their own, but you need to secure the HOOPS to the GROUND POSTS properly. I have had my hoops LIFT out of the ground posts in heavy winds. THen I learned to do this: 12:11
@@vinofarm Thank you for quick response. Your videos helped me so much on starting my own hoophouse...I was actually concerning if the ground posts would lift out or not. (after seeing many hoop house constructions using foundations).The way you built the hoophouse, at what speed can withstand the wind? Do you have a guess, or experience?
Cagri KORU I don’t have an exact answer. A lot of it would depend on your soil. I know the ground posts on my hoop houses never lifted from wind. Only the hoops IN the ground posts. If you are concerned, just use longer ground posts and bury them a little deeper.
Have you ever considered making an underground greenhouse? Having only the roof above ground, you're able to grow all year round as the temperatures inside don't change too much (so long as the roof is double or triple layered).
Yes, We've considered it. However, excavation is a huge job up here with our bouldery, rocky land. I actually have enough material to build over 300 feet of hoop house, so maybe we'll experiment someday.
I have another one like this with 4 foot spacing between hoops and it's 11 years old with no damage. The snow definitely sags the plastic down between the hoops, but no tearing problems in all that time. This one has the hoops only 3 feet apart to support the plastic a little more.
Any issues with winds or snow as far as just buring the posts 2ft? Wondering if I should just drive mine in or cement them, I'm in the Berkshires and we get decent wind.
We're up on a hill and get a lot of wind. There's never been any movement whatsoever with the ground posts moving, but the hoops definitely used to lift up out of the posts before I added the cross bolts. 12:10 As for snow, I space my hoops at 3' instead of the standard 4'. My first one was made with 4' spacing and there is definitely sagging of the plastic between the hoops when we get a lot of snow. The one in this video has 3' spacing and it's much sturdier. If you use proper galvanized pipe, you won't have any trouble. A PVC or thin walled metal pipe would certainly collapse under snow load.
An M67 immersion barrel heater in a tank of water makes a great greenhouse heater. Burns up waste oil or almost any flammable liquid. The can be a little scary to light though..
Love the work you put into your content sir. I really would love a hoop set up. In Oklahoma there is a grant with the agricultural dept that you can apply for to get a hoop house for free or at a substantial discount.
DIYMarta There are agricultural grants all over the USA. I have a local friend who got a grant for a brand new hoop house last year in MA. He's a small farmer, though. There is a minimum you need to make selling products to be considered a farm. That probably varies by state.
an easier way to find the corner angle is the 3-4-5 method. where one of the right angles is 3 ft. another is 4 ft. and when the diagonal measures exactly 5 ft you have a perfect right angle. this can be in inches or ft we in the construction have been using this method for many years
Yes, 3-4-5 is great for checking if something is square. But try standing in the middle of a field and laying out a 17x50' rectangle. How are you going to do it with 3-4-5? Start in one corner, measure out a 90º angle. Great... How do you line up the other 90º corner 50' away? Even if you did manage to make 4 separate 90º corners line up with each other and form a 17x50 rectangle, how do you confirm they're actually square? You take a diagonal measurement.... that's the hypotenuse. It's all you needed in the first place. It takes one person about 2 minutes with two long tape measures.
Going into it's 13th New England winter this year. It stays on year round. But you have to use the "4-Year Greenhouse plastic". Home Depot 6-mil plastic will not last a season.
Local farm supplier in MA. Search for "4-year greenhouse plastic" Mine is guaranteed for 4-years, but it's in the middle of its 12th year. Don't cheap out and get a roll at Home Depot. It doesn't last one summer.
For heaven's sake Jim. Until 15 minutes and 47 seconds ago I didn't know what a hoop house was. Now I want one. First bees, now a hoop house. I need a small farm. Great video!
It's an unheated greenhouse! You might call them high tunnels over there. If I put a heat source in here, I could call it a "greenhouse" but since it's only solar powered, it's a "hoophouse." They're definitely nice to have around!
We call similar structures polytunnels here, though they are often temporary, moveable structures rather than the semi-permanent appearance of yours. They are frequently used for forcing early tomatoes etc. There are acres and acres of them in southern Spain from which comes the UK's early spring salad veg. Looking forward to seeing the produce from your hoop house. Best to all for the spring.
Me too!!!🎉
You have made one of the best instructional videos I have ever seen, your tips and refined attention to detail is absolutely amazing
If you notice anything tricky about this video, give it a thumbs up. This was harder than it looks. 👍
I had to rewind three times to see it! Very good! I won't give it away!!
Are you talking about how it looks like that you're constantly using "The Force" to put this togeather?
It was fifty feet long, but how wide?
How do you use your bees to pollinate in the hoop house?
I was like no way. Lol... The force is strong with your throwing techniques.
Best greenhouse video so ever.
one of the best videos about building hoop houses
Yes, i agree!
That measurement trick to figure out a perfect rectangle is ingenious. Thank you!
Pythagoras had it right 2500 years ago!
What I like the most, this is for a single-person assemble instructions. That'd be me. I checked my farming area, no hoops or materials to build my own. I did see a pipe/pole bender; may go back and get it. I need a scaled down version too, for my residential backyard. My eyes are always bigger for what I want, then what I have room.
I love the trickery and humor with the (reverse) instruction process; pretty awesome dude! You Rock!
your squaring demo was spot on and easy to understand. nice work!
LOVED the video. I especially liked that your assistant was wearing the appropriate safety gear and hi-vis vest!!!
Like DGB said this is by far the best instructional video on how to build a hoop-house thank you so much, I am looking forward this spring to build mine LOL.Thanks so much!
Great videos. I watched yours yesterday and you inspired me to search for a used house. Found a 30x75 posted for $1000. Just checked it out and bought it today. Thanks for the information. You saved me a ton of $$$
Shoreboy That is awesome! 75x30 for $1000 is amazing. Where was it?
Vino Farm it’s in Laurel Delaware about a hour and a half from my house. We went down to look at it and the frame was in great shape. It came with a fan two vents side skirts a new roll of plastic and the even offered to take it down for me. I couldn’t pass it up.
Shoreboy Shoreboy That’s a great deal. I recommend you be there to help take it down. It will really help to know where everything goes when you’re putting it back together! Glad this video helped!
Thank you for taking the time and effort to make and post this video. Very nice discussion of how to square up the layout. Very nice editing, too; impressive reversal of the video in places. Good tip on checking craigslist. All nicely done.
The most detailed video I have ever seen about hoop house! Wow
Massachusetts people too!!! We're building a cattle panel greenhouse right now and just found your channel!!! LOVE it!!!
THANK YOU!! for teaching me the squaring of the house. I have wondered how to do that for years.
I actually learnt something today. I never understood what the hypotenuse was until now. Cheers for that. In the past if I wanted to mark out a rectangle. I would peg out the four corners, then measure diagonal
I never quite understood the fuss about math until I started laying out garden beds and hoophouses. The hypotenuse calculator is awesome!
Great, great video. Well done. This should have hundreds of thousands of views.
I agree! On point
The breakdown on the cardboard was going the extra mile great video
Glad you liked it! Easier than trying to explain that in the field.
What an excellent and informative video. Narration was sincere, honest, and clear. Thanks young man.
Glad it was helpful!
At 0:56, I see some drip tube too that came with the repurposed hoop house. What a deal!
Very good video -- just the right amount of talking and doing. Easy to absorb, with sufficient information. Thanks for posting!
Loved the drone shot when you were bringing in the ribs. Nice video.
Thanks. This one was fun to make.
Excellent work shown by you keep it up. Appreciated from Pakistan
Absolutely beautiful job! Editing and tutorial were excellent. 👏
Center purlin on every house I’ve built goes outside as you stated on each arch except for the end walls. It should go inside the hoop of the end wall so that the wire channel fits on most houses or plastic seals tight when stretched if using batten boards on others without a pressure point like that would make on the outside of the end arch. Other than that, this is one of the best examples for building houses on you tube! Well done my friend!
Chuck
This is a great tip! Next time I build a hoophouse, I will definitely put the ends of the center purlin on the inside. Thanks for watching.
My goodness, you made it look simple putting the top beam in. Well done, great vid!
Almost looked like it was played in reverse. As in him taking it down and paying backwards
Hi 👋 we have laid out plot for our house- I noticed the end hoop is a bit more reinforced looking… could you explain the materials please
You are a great teacher
I Have 8 32 foot long by 15 foot wide hoop houses made from free scrapyard found "Rhino" brand carport kits that someone threw the whole thing away because the first end frame became damaged from someone running into it with a car or snowplow etc. and i bought cheap 10 foot long 3/4 inch electrical conduit (steel) to add additional wind bracing and i bought bags of concrete to fill 5 gallon buckets to make anchors every 8 feet. Other than that i bought the greenhouse film and attachment parts and got a good start for under $250.
Thank you lovely that the younge person was able to pRticipTe best way of learning hands on experience at a early age 🙏😘excellent video .
Nice to see one proper built. Trouble with the plastic pipe hoop houses is if there's a heavy snow or a strong storm your $1000 and time could be wasted.
Very nice want more details about in costal sea aera in havy wind it will be protect howand whT is the temprater in Nd out side same modle can be use has a poly dryer can we construction by own
can you buy metal poles already bent as a hoop? whre would one find them, besides criages list? can you buy straight poles and bend them yourself without special tool?
You can buy a hoop bender online. Look up bootstrap farmer online. They are between $50 and $80 on Amazon.
Love how you can just hammer those into the ground. Where I live I'd get about 2 inches in before hitting football sized stones.
Ha! Watch the video closely. The posts didn't actually go in that easily the first time!
My house property was a pottery dump a long time ago (I live in Ohio) and the people that dumped the pottery decided it wasn’t enough and when I tried to dig to plant a tree I found a whole cinderblock
@@isabellamerrigan8074 relatable, i have found so many bricks and cinderblocks i could make a castle
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Thank you for this video. First time farmer here.
Wow are you teacher ? I hope so you are great!!!!! Thanks!! Great video!!!
It's amazing! You are so talented! Thank you!
Thank you for the video. I have been watched many Greenhouse videos. But I cannot use clear plastics due to many squirrels in my areas.
Good video. At 12:26, you can just use a self drilling screw and you will achieve the same result. No drilling through, or bolts, washers, and nuts.
I like how easy you got the first purlin on 😉.
The bolts give me peace of mind, but yes, self tappers might be sufficient. I have had my other hoop house lift right out of the ground posts before I learned to bolt them down. Wind is powerful.
I have an idea of a drip watering system in each greenhouse, and the main feed piped in from a building with water lines and before the line to the greenhouses a whole house filter or several and sprinkler timers.
This is a great video that will really help us when we install ours! Thank you!
Even though I know the Pythagorian theorem there is another way that is easy. I've been in home building construction 38+ years. One way we used was 3 + 4 = 5 or any combination of that works. What does that mean? Measure along one site from the corner and put a mark at 3 feet. Measure the other side from the same corner and put a mark at 4 feet. Then measure diagonally across to each points, it will be 5 feet if it is square. Likewise, you can do 6 + 8 = 10 or 9 + 12 = 15 etc.
Thanks for another informative and fun video!
Yes. It was very informative. I did not know that they need a special type of covering. And aside from using extra capacity measuring tape and Pythagoras, once again he made it look easy
To get a nice right angle you can use a 3 4 5 triangle (or multiple of). Measure 3ft one way and then 4ft another, between those two points should be 5ft, also works for metres.
Yes, that's the same thing as the hypotenuse calculator. It's difficult to keep things square with 3/4/5 on a 50 or 100 foot scale. You could do 6/8/10 or 12/16/20, but at that point, I prefer to just get a specific hypotenuse and be exact. Especially with google right in my pocket.
hello sir, what is the height of your hoop house, length and size of the of the pipe?
Thinking about to start planting chillies and looking for some greenhouse but this hoophouse idea is awesome, thank you man
someone buy this man a post driver! You my friend are a hard worker!
This how to video is 🔥 🤙 super clear and thorough! Love it!
yes it is very hard to put them up by yourself well done sir
Am looking into building a hoop house and your video came up. Think I will sub, bell and like. I think I will stick around and see what you have going on. Some will fork for me some may not, I am in Central Kentucky, Go Cats. But after watching your intro and you fixing the termite problem, you are a hard worker and I like that. See you around.
Vino, can you answer me if these galvanized tubes last long directly on earth? Thanks
I got these used 14 years ago and they are still fine. The previous owner had used them for over 10 years. They last.
@@vinofarm thanks for the answer
nice shot!
I don't get any snow where I live here in Texas, can I build this thing out of the much cheaper PVC?
Sure, but make sure you secure it well. Even this steel frame will lift right up off the ground in the wind if it's not bolted down.
Beautiful Good infarmation
A VERY GOOD JOB DONE
Very nice. I plan to use these instructions and build mine
I need a hoop house that 50ft wide and 70ft long
Massachusetts....you know.in the new England area.
you had me at pitagorean . i will be coming back for tips when i build my first one in the next year or so. #lifegoals
Do you hand a material list
Crazy how many hoop house vids are in Massachusetts. Like 5 in a row for me. I guess we need them here more than in the south, so it makes sense. 🤷♂️
How can I buy the frames and the frame supporting plastics
13:38 the hoops are shaking BEFORE you threw the perlin, thus obviously the film is being played backwards. How did you actually get the perlin on top/center? How many assistants did it take?
This video is a bit tongue-in-cheek. To put the purlins up, you do it one by one (They are in 10' sections.) You stand on a ladder and just bolt them on the hoops individually. It basically looks like the video at 14:00. (FYI, If you haven't figured it out, the entire video was edited in reverse.)
@@vinofarm Lol jokes on me! haha. There were a couple sections in Part 1 i thought MIGHT be in reverse, but only this one was clear. I watched Part 2 immediately afterwards and it was pretty obvious. Thanks for making me laugh, and the instructions, too :-)
chad eller I tried to make Part 2 more obvious as a reveal to what was happening. It was fun to shoot. There is a bit of trickery, but the info is legit! Thanks for watching.
You are really shifting gears sir!
It was excellent and very useful, thank you
You are welcome!
I just wanted to say thank you so much Vino Farm i have learned a lots just from watching your video. We are residing in Mesa and San Tan Valley in Arizona and been wanting to have my own garden and green house by watching you i am sure will build one when we more to Carthage or Pine hurt North Carolina. You have show me where to find the cheap material but, can you please tell me how you do it all by yourself getting the plastic over the Hoop house and that is pretty amazing and where do you get plastic and what type of Ply plastic ?
Thank you in advance
Phil
Google: "greenhouse plastic roll 4-year"
There are many places that sell it. We have a farm supply business near us and I can go pick it up. Most online places will ship it. Just make sure you're buying real greenhouse plastic with UV protection. The stuff you get at home depot will disintegrate in a year. The "4-year" plastic we put on your hoophouse in 2009 is in it's 12th year and still holding up fine after 11 New England winters.
Highly praised the way u explained, wounderful piece of information, u r really excellent.
Thank you for making such a great video for us. SO HELPFUL, brother!
Will a trampoline frame fit inside those ground posts? Those stove bolt screws stick out. Will they rip plastic? Did you use those same screws on the perlin?
The stove bolts face inwards. The tops are rounded. No problem on the plastic.
what is the size of the hoops? the length and diameter of the iron bar?
Great job man! Q. Q. please. I have a fish pond which is 6.5mX10m and would like to make a shade for it; to prevent algae from forming in it. Is this possible with pvc pipes? TIA
Very done and explained, where did you buy all the pipe from?
Hi, do you think a hoophouse without cement fundamentals, the same dimensions in video but in a quarter acre field could resist to strong winds?
There's no cement foundation here. The ground posts have good holding power on their own, but you need to secure the HOOPS to the GROUND POSTS properly. I have had my hoops LIFT out of the ground posts in heavy winds. THen I learned to do this: 12:11
@@vinofarm Thank you for quick response. Your videos helped me so much on starting my own hoophouse...I was actually concerning if the ground posts would lift out or not. (after seeing many hoop house constructions using foundations).The way you built the hoophouse,
at what speed can withstand the wind? Do you have a guess, or experience?
Cagri KORU I don’t have an exact answer. A lot of it would depend on your soil. I know the ground posts on my hoop houses never lifted from wind. Only the hoops IN the ground posts. If you are concerned, just use longer ground posts and bury them a little deeper.
Thank you, I will go with longer ground posts just in case..
How did you transport all the materials to your farm ?
0:55 - I rented a moving truck for a day.
Have you ever considered making an underground greenhouse? Having only the roof above ground, you're able to grow all year round as the temperatures inside don't change too much (so long as the roof is double or triple layered).
Yes, We've considered it. However, excavation is a huge job up here with our bouldery, rocky land. I actually have enough material to build over 300 feet of hoop house, so maybe we'll experiment someday.
It’s a beauty!
Thank you. Just what I needed to see.
I wish you Peace Always
Where can I buy this same type of hoop house at those prices, please?
ONE question: How many hours did it take to complete JUST the base & frame to the point it could be covered????
I can go from bare ground and parts to the frame assembled in about 2 days by myself. Way faster with a few people.
Can you built this in ethiopia how many usd need 500m2
Hi! Thx for the video. What about snow? Does it resist in enough?
I have another one like this with 4 foot spacing between hoops and it's 11 years old with no damage. The snow definitely sags the plastic down between the hoops, but no tearing problems in all that time. This one has the hoops only 3 feet apart to support the plastic a little more.
@@vinofarm Thanks for the answer. And how do you bend metal in an arc?
@@Pitomnik1Ru I did not bend the pipe. I bought them used from a farm. Watch the first 4 minutes of the video.
Any issues with winds or snow as far as just buring the posts 2ft? Wondering if I should just drive mine in or cement them, I'm in the Berkshires and we get decent wind.
We're up on a hill and get a lot of wind. There's never been any movement whatsoever with the ground posts moving, but the hoops definitely used to lift up out of the posts before I added the cross bolts. 12:10
As for snow, I space my hoops at 3' instead of the standard 4'. My first one was made with 4' spacing and there is definitely sagging of the plastic between the hoops when we get a lot of snow. The one in this video has 3' spacing and it's much sturdier. If you use proper galvanized pipe, you won't have any trouble. A PVC or thin walled metal pipe would certainly collapse under snow load.
Hi, how inch have the hole of the posts and the hoops?
An M67 immersion barrel heater in a tank of water makes a great greenhouse heater. Burns up waste oil or almost any flammable liquid. The can be a little scary to light though..
Love the work you put into your content sir. I really would love a hoop set up. In Oklahoma there is a grant with the agricultural dept that you can apply for to get a hoop house for free or at a substantial discount.
A GRANT? I may have to move to Oklahoma.
I want a grant for turning my field of weeds into a meadow of flowers for bees. Anyone know of such a grant?
DIYMarta There are agricultural grants all over the USA. I have a local friend who got a grant for a brand new hoop house last year in MA. He's a small farmer, though. There is a minimum you need to make selling products to be considered a farm. That probably varies by state.
an easier way to find the corner angle is the 3-4-5 method. where one of the right angles is 3 ft. another is 4 ft. and when the diagonal measures exactly 5 ft you have a perfect right angle. this can be in inches or ft we in the construction have been using this method for many years
Yes, 3-4-5 is great for checking if something is square. But try standing in the middle of a field and laying out a 17x50' rectangle. How are you going to do it with 3-4-5? Start in one corner, measure out a 90º angle. Great... How do you line up the other 90º corner 50' away? Even if you did manage to make 4 separate 90º corners line up with each other and form a 17x50 rectangle, how do you confirm they're actually square? You take a diagonal measurement.... that's the hypotenuse. It's all you needed in the first place. It takes one person about 2 minutes with two long tape measures.
What type of bolts you use to fix the perlins?
They are 5/16 stainless steel round top stove bolts with nuts and washers on the inside.
@@vinofarm thank you man god bless u
This is great and cheap! I will consider this in creating my farm! Thanks!
I love your hoop house and would like to build the same thing for my hydroponic system. Pls did you buy the pvc pipes bind or bind them yourself
Explained in the very first minute of the video.
Great video, thanks for posting. Do you leave the plastic on aĺl year, or just growing season..? Thanks
Going into it's 13th New England winter this year. It stays on year round. But you have to use the "4-Year Greenhouse plastic". Home Depot 6-mil plastic will not last a season.
Sounds fair. A worthwhile investment for sure. That is for the response & info. 🥃👍
Where did you purchase your greenhouse plastic covering material?
Local farm supplier in MA. Search for "4-year greenhouse plastic" Mine is guaranteed for 4-years, but it's in the middle of its 12th year. Don't cheap out and get a roll at Home Depot. It doesn't last one summer.
Was it difficult drilling through the purlins and the hoops?
Get a good metal drilling bit. Use some cutting oil and go slow. High speed drilling kills the bit. It takes time, but it’s not hard.
Excellent
Great job 👍 bro
Boy you took the long way.!!!!!!
well, I learned a lot just watching this video thanks !!!!
My two favorite subjects: maths and gardening. In one video!
Are those base boards over lapping?
Base boards butt up to each other and then a short piece crosses the joint and ties them together. It's called a scab joint or a sister joint.
Vino Farm thank you so much for the response!
Thanks Buddy, great video well done