November 11, 2004
Putting on the purlins
We put the top three purlins on the greenhouse today.
My office was closed today in observance of Veteran's Day, and Waverly was still scheduled for daycare, so Peter took the day off too so we could get done some of the greenhouse work that Waverly couldn't help with.
The purlins run the length of the greenhouse connecting the ribs.
You bolt them to the ribs.
Figuring out how to get up there to do the bolting took some creativity.
And there is a fair amount of play in the ribs, so it took some pushing and pulling to get the purlins on. But we got them all on.
are you sure your not building Vermont's version of the thunderdome?
Two farmers enter, one farmer leaves!
Posted by: mark at November 11, 2004 09:26 PMPeter and Maryellen,
The greenhouse looks great! We put up our 20'x 50' back in April for our early tomatoes. Its such a great asset to have. Ours has lettuce in it now for the winter. The mild, sunny winters in Raleigh make in so easy to "garden in the winter" here. I am wondering how big your greenhouse is, would be interesting to know.
Tom--Double T Farm
Hi Tom,
This house is 24 x 96, with 6ft sidewalls. Up here we need the gothic shaped frames to shed winter snow loads. We also have on order a 28 x 96 frame that will go in the ground next season. Both of these will have double layer plastic with oil heaters. We hope to convert to biodiesel sometime in the next decade or so. We already have two other hand-built wood framed hoophouses with no heat sources. They are 15 x 48 and 20 x 48. Lastly, we have our old seedling house which is a 20 x 20 wood frame with single layer plastic. If we get this new heated big house up this winter, we may use the old seedling house for some early carrots or something next year.
Posted by: peter at November 12, 2004 08:10 PM