High Tunnel Build (Part 1) | Off Grid Living

[Music] today we are getting started on building our hoop house yeah we're gonna be constructing this hoop house out of chain link fence top rail and the reason we're doing that is we are a lot of strength for our snow load and we're also looking to get a large hoop house for cheap on a previous place we had a 10 by 20 greenhouse that we built out of a carport so this is going to be a new experience for us so today we're going to try to get accomplished is bending all of our hoops we're going to try to get the post that we have to pound in the ground we have nine of those we need to cut them all in half and we also need to get some linseed oil put on the two by fours that are going to be in contact with the ground so here we go we've got our first hoop already bent this is the system we kind of came up with to bend him we took this old table that we had laying around and we got our bender that we got off Amazon bolt it down to it and then these are the guides we put on there to keep the rail up off of the table so we got a nice even Bend and I'm gonna stick a piece of top rail in there and show you how we Bend it these benders they come for different sizes our hoop house is gonna take two of these ten and a half foot pieces of top rail and this vendor is meant to bend these two into x bolt foot-wide hoop house so when you're buying one of these make sure you get the right size for the hoop house you're gonna build so the first thing we are gonna do is we're gonna mark at six inches [Music] and once we do that I'm gonna feed it through and what that mark is is that is where you're gonna place it right past the band and after that we're ready to make our first Bend and as you can see here put in these 1 by twos in here as kind of a level keeps it up so it's not going to give you a awkward bend in the pipe and then you just feed it through until the bench you just made is kind of [Music] and this bends pretty easy and you don't want to really muscle it too hard because you can kink this pipe and that's it it's pretty easy to do we have about 15 more to go so we are gonna get started on [Music] okay so this may look like we just took apart our old trampoline but this is gonna be the hoop house so this next piece of pipe is a little thicker diameter than this one these hoops are actually going to slide into here what we're gonna do is we want to raise the way this hoop house is right now it'd only be about six feet tall and we're aiming to get ours about eight foot tall so what we're going to do is we're going to cut these eight foot sections in half we're gonna pound two feet into the ground and then we're gonna leave two feet above the ground where these hoops are gonna slide into and hopefully that'll give us our eight foot hoop house so what we need to do we have nine of these I've got to get the angle grinder out with the cutoff wheel and we got to cut them all in half [Music] [Music] [Music] we finish up with our boughs and ground posts and I was going to get started on treating these with linseed oil linseed oil is something we recently found out about and wanted to venture into using that to treat and protect wood naturally and we're using boiled linseed which dries quite a bit faster we're also making sure we do this early in the day and our gonna have plenty of Sun all day and have Sun for the next few days we're ready now to put the linseed oil on I'm gonna use a cloth there's probably a better way to do it but I didn't feel like buying the brush to put it on and I'm just gonna rub it in with the cloth and so from what I read about this is it is I want to say its water resistant or it protects the wood from water over time and I believe it also protects it from sun damage and it's really cool what it actually does is it absorbs into the wood over time the longer it sits there so I was doing some reading up on linseed oil and it is derived from flaxseed which is really cool and that is why it is a safe alternative to use if you don't want to use pressure-treated wood and your garden or your greenhouse that's all we're gonna do today for the greenhouse since we still need to wait for the snow to melt before we can level off the ground where it's going to go I wanted to give a special thanks to Michelle who is a subscriber who turned us onto the linseed oil and we also saw Ron on living off-grid mcgarvey style use this not quite this way he has a better approach to treat fence posts and I would check it out if you're looking to treat fence posts but you can't afford fresher treated or you just want to try something a better alternative or a safer alternative a really cool method so for whatever I think that this is going to be a good start it's probably not ideal to have it directly on the soil and I know it will break down over time but it was either that or not treated at all and the linseed was very affordable and a little bit goes a long way and we have a whole big huge container to do more projects with now ok so today we're actually gonna start on the construction of the hoop house we are going to kind of get this land leveled off a little bit get something nice clear out of the way and then we're gonna start pounding some of these posts in the ground we're gonna do 36 feet long we're gonna put a post in every four feet so we'll see how far we get today [Music] so I just wanted to show you guys this we started working on our greenhouse last night and we had to kind of pause because we did have an error in some of our math we had just kind of done it in her head and didn't really actually draw it out which we probably should have done but I thought this was a real real treat just after the chicken coop built we planned for nine posts for each side of the greenhouse or the hoop house but when we did our math we didn't include the last post or the first post hard to think of it so last night when we were counting we realized we were one short and then realized why we were one short so needless to say we made a trip to Lowe's last night so we could spent all day today working on the greenhouse and I am pretty confident that this will go up in two days and then we can start working on other things okay so we're unload the trailer and setting up the pipe banger again cuz we got one more hoop we got a band and then we're gonna get to work so we tried putting like a 2x4 on top of this and pounding it that way but they're super hard to pound in and it was just breaking the two by fours we were using so we're just hitting this metal and it's mushroom it down so I'm gonna do so we get them all pounded in I'm just going to go across all of our level line and mark them with a sharpie and then cut them and then I'll probably just grind down the edges and wrap them in some tape so they're not sharp against the plastic but this side almost done you just got to see if we can get those two end posts level pound it in and we'll make our marks cut them and then to get the other side we're going to get the diagonal measurement that we need and measure that side out and do the whole thing again over there [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so we gotta hold the post in the ground grind it down cut everything's looking good nice and level as you can see behind me I got one of the bows up we're gonna put all these in we're gonna fasten them with a bunch of self-tapping screws and then I think we're gonna start working on some wood framing for the bottom here we go [Music] okay we got the boughs up and we got all the screws in next thing we're gonna work on it's called the purlins and we're gonna use top rail for it and it's basically the piece of top rail that's gonna connect all these down the center all the way the other end and we are going to fasten it to those using stainless steel hose clamps so we'll see how it works we're going to get up there and see how strong it is see if we need to make any adjustments we are also going to put three support beams throughout to this hoop house and we are going to be adding a wind bracing which goes on the side and I think we're gonna be adding a hip board we're not quite sure traditionally that's where you would put wiggle wire if you had roll up sides we're not gonna do roll up sides it's just kind of being a little more low cost with not doing it that way so we're still debating about the hip board [Music] we opted to do hit boards we are not having roll-up sides we have done quite a bit of research and are trying to make this as wind and snow stable and durable because that is what it's appropriate for this climate so we're doing the hip boards and then we're gonna add some wind bracing and with the beams that are concreted in the middle along with the end walls I'm pretty sure we're gonna be more than safe for snow and wind [Music] [Applause] [Music] we are going to call it quits today I think it's probably late afternoon now we've got a lot done the wind bracing purlins put the bows in the ground post a hit board lots of stuff so tomorrow we'll be doing beams the baseboard and work it on n walls we're happy with what we got done today and we will see you guys tomorrow are you okay no stop it please stop it you had more paper than me like two sizes extra I'm hungry and working on [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Simple Living Alaska

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Id: mFpNQ18LM6E

Length: 17min 28sec (1048 seconds)

Published: Wed May 01 2019