How to Build a Raised Bed in 1 HOUR for UNDER $100

welcome back to the homestead here today I have a really cool video for you I'm gonna show you how to build a raised bed [Music] [Music] this is a 12 foot by 4 foot by two foot tall bed and many of you out there watching might be like well I see building such a tall bed we're gonna be using these beds for a gardening practice called Google culture if you don't know anything about Hugo culture go ahead and look at the description below I'll leave some links or you can research what it is the short version of what Google culture is is it's a gardening practice that came out of Germany basically what they discovered is that when you take a log sticks branches leaves grass any organic material that's not soil lay it on the ground and then bury it in soil it produces good a rich nutrient dense soil that retains moisture and releases heat we're doing we're gonna be doing that same method but just in a raised bed we originally found this from a guy that's on YouTube self-sufficient me and he does she go culture inside of his raised beds and we wanted a bed that was gonna last a good while that wasn't all built out of wood and that was cheap to build high most raised beds out there are actually built of all lumber and if you know anything about building materials lumber gets expensive really really fast so what we did was we did a little bit of research and we found people doing this method of raised bed by using corrugated steel so let me show you what we got going on behind me so this is the finished product I wanted to keep the entire building process really simple and easy and so I used two by fours for everything and the only thing that's not a 2x4 on here is the one by ones that you see right here on the ends I will leave a cut list of everything all the materials that I'm using in the description below I'll make this process easy for you so if you want to go out there and do it yourself you can so let's go ahead and get started with this build process all right so this is what you're gonna need you're gonna need 4 2 by 4 by 12 about 4 2 by 4 by 8 it's exactly 8 feet and you're gonna need one by one and you're also gonna need three sheets of 12 foot long corrugated steel and this is about two feet high so far as the tools you're gonna need I'm putting everything together with nails because it's cheaper because we're building like 20 of these beds so you're gonna need nail gun with nails some inch and a quarter screws a drill and then obviously a drill motor and then to cut the corrugated steel you're gonna need to use a grinder you can use anything you know that will cut through the corrugated seal I just found this is the easiest and quickest method also you're gonna need a saw and in this case I'm just using a miter saw so obviously do whatever works for you whatever tools are available for you but this is what I'm gonna be using so let's go ahead and get started so the first thing we're going to be cutting is our 4-foot sides and like I said you need a full eight foot board a lot of these studs that you can find at the hardware store are not sold in 96 inches I think it's like they're sold in like 92 and whatever but you need 96 inches for an exactly 4 foot bed and that's important and we'll get into that later so we'll cut our 8 foot boards right in half all right so we got our 4-foot sides so you need four four-foot sides now we're gonna go ahead and cut our leg supports which are the supports that are gonna go on each corner and then one in the middle so that's six leg support but for the leg supports they're gonna have an 18 inch board in the center so these are going to be leg supports from the outside are gonna be 25 and 5/8 and then the board on the inside is gonna be 18 and 5/8 so here's a middle leg support and like I said the outside is 25 and 5/8 and the inside is 18 and 5/8 and as you can see the two by four by 12s are sitting on that 18 inch board on the corner you still have your 25 and 5/8 and then you have your 18 and 5/8 and then this is where the 1 by comes in this is a 1 by 1 and it's 8 again 18 and 5/8 and that is strictly just to secure this corrugated steel to the front here because as you can see it needs something to screw into on the inside so let's go ahead and get these leg supports cut up and nail together so if you have a full 96 inch 2x4 it'll be able to cut into 1 to 325 and 5/8 links and then your last cut on the end will be 18 and 5/8 and I'll leave you with just a very minimal amount of weight so that's the amount of waste you have leftover so after you're finished with your 25 and 5/8 cuts you'll have 6 obviously and then you only have 2 of your 18 and 5/8 cuts they're gonna need to have another 2x4 to finish out your 18 inch cuts all right the last cut you're gonna make is on your one by one okay the last cut you're gonna make is on your one by one's and those again are gonna be 18 to 5/8 and you're gonna only need four of those because they're just going on the corners [Music] now that all of our cuts are made we're gonna take our twenty five and five eighths board and one of our 18 and five eighths board and all we do here is simplest way to do it is that half kind of a a jig board or a template obviously it's just a 2x4 and I lay it flush on the top of this tube I or on the top of this 25 and 5/8 board and once it's flush I'll just knock one in here turn it around make sure we're flush on this side which you're gonna be if you ever cut everything straight and then I just quit well that was too but usually I just put three nails in here and that's one of the center's so we'll do two centers and then I'll show you how to do the corners can't rub your rump on everything she's good big we're gonna be minor distractions from our pet pig if you haven't bet fern check her out on some of our other videos so for the corner all we're gonna do just take our one that we just made and we're just going to connect a 1 by right there on the edge and that's going to exist consists of our corner odds make it sure it's flush on the edge on the tops and then once it's good enough to go I'll send two nails through here and you don't want to put your nails too close to these edges because this is just some cheap pine and it'll break for sure so that's a corner piece just right there on the edge and so we're gonna make four of those and then we're gonna be done with our leg supports all right there we got all of our cuts made and all of our nails in our board we have two middle pieces and then our four corners and then our four foot cuts for the sides and then obviously our twelve footers we didn't we're not going to cut it all because they're just gonna go straight on no cuts there so next we'll move over to our corrugated metal and we will cut these accordingly so obviously two of these sheets you're not going to cut it at all because they're 12 foot in length so this first sheet we're gonna start with we're actually just going to cut off our side metal four and that side metal is going to be forty four inches so forty four inch cuts and we're gonna use our grinder I'll do four this is just make a mark for forty four inches on both sides and then I'll take it short piece of board now line up both edges no just mark it off like I said before if you don't have a grinder you can you can use a you can use some tin snips or something like that right they sell special tools to cut this metal with I just don't have it all right the last thing we're gonna do to our metal and you're gonna do this not only on the 44 inch cuts but also on the 12-foot sidewalls we're gonna go ahead and drill our holes it makes it way easier and you can't get one of these screws through this metal anyway so you need holes for it so I've just found a you know proper diameter for this inch and a quarter screw that I'm using you do the same and then we're gonna try to go pretty close to the edges here because on the vertical edges we don't have much space to work with so we want our holes to be decently close to that vertical edge so we're gonna do one in the corner in the middle and then on this edge we're gonna make sure we get close so in down here in the center he'll just do the same thing on the bottom for the holes on the that you're gonna drill on the 12-foot side metal you're gonna want one two three four five six seven on the top and then seven on the bottom and then you have one in the center down here on the edges same side same thing over here and that's where you gonna want your holes on the 12-foot side alright now that we get all of our cuts made all of it nailed together and then all of our holes drilled for the metal we're gonna go ahead and build this thing you don't need level surface again you're building the raised bed it's not framing it's not you know crucial construction it's just needs to be square that's it and so for that make sure you have a square like a speed square because you gonna square everything up as you're putting it together let's go ahead and I'll show you how to put this thing together I mean just get it kind of lay it out like this you want a corner in a corner and then all we do is take our 2 by 4 by 2 12 and lay it on and we will lose this end over like that one of the first things we'll do is we'll mark our Center on our 2 by 12 at 6 feet to make sure we got this important lined up in the center the next crucial thing you'll want to do is make sure you leave enough spacing on the edge here it's on the edge you're gonna want to offset the 2 by 12 to have room for the other 2 by 4 by 4 that you're laying on the in wall so you need to make sure that you have a width of a 2x4 you can just use this one by one as a template for where this needs to sit it's just going to end right there and you're gonna square this up and then knock this in with some nails so let's go ahead and do that then for the center support we'll make sure we're in the center with this support make sure we're square it up here all right so now once you have this part nailed in you'll take your other 2 by 12 laying on the top half get over here that's it now we got one side built so we'll go ahead and build the other side and then we will tie everything together on the in walls and get our metal on alright so once you got both of these walls built the next step is gonna be if you're one person doing this like me you're gonna take one of your 4-foot links put it on the bottom here line it up as best as possible as plumb and square as possible you're only gonna put one nail on it just like this that way now when I lift this whole structure up it's got something to sit on all right so once you have that attacked in you can stand that side up then you grab your nail gun and you tech this side in and like I said this doesn't have to be square and perfect because we're gonna adjust it as we go all we have is one nail on each side here and make sure everything's square now and then we'll nail it all together the next thing we want to do is take another four foot section and put it down on that end once you have a nail in each corner all you got to do is grab both edges and then just tilt them either this way or that to make it square square everything out this is if you're doing it by yourself and you don't have anybody to hold stuff for you you'll see they just set nicely right in there now that we have the frame built the next and last part is just to get the corrugated metal on here you saw me drill the holes pre-drilled OHS holes so we're gonna take those pieces of metal and we're gonna shove them on here and then we're just going to knock them in with those inch and a quarter screws but that's the simplicity of the frame construction I did this so they could be modular because we are building 20 of these beds and I didn't want to sit and have to think about each cut I want everything to be kind of like an assembly line and I could get five people over here and we could just do them all real quick all right this last part is super simple it's a little bit time-consuming because I put so many screws in the reason I put as many screws in as I do because I want to mount it flush up against the framing one thing I forgot to mention earlier is the reason for the 5/8 so 25 and 5/8 and 18 and 5/8 is because I want the framing to be just a little bit higher than the metal because when the kids are around these beds I don't want them touching the top part of the metal and slicing their fingers open because if you've ever sliced your finger on a piece of sheet metal it hurts and it goes deep go ahead and tack these in I got my holes drilled already so we will get this corrugated metal on [Music] all right got the corrugated metal on and that's that we're all done obviously you've seen it from what I was showing you over there but that's the one we just built so if you guys are exploring hookah culture and you want to get into it this is a perfect method to pursue this is the cheapest version we found and we are thinking we're gonna love it that's it guys if you like this video give it a thumbs up if you haven't already hit the subscribe button to stay updated with what we're doing around here on the homestead we have so many projects that we're working on and the future is bright around here at Goshen so thank you again for watching and we will see all in the next video

Channel: Goshen Farm and Gardens

Views: 484,260

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Keywords: homesteading, hügelkultur, hugelkultur, raised bed, raised beds, how to

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Length: 17min 5sec (1025 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 15 2020