Organizing the greenhouse

First thing Saturday morning, we went to look at a trailer.  It has come to our attention that we could really use a good trailer to haul all the supplies and random stuff that comes with our farm.  To that end, we scoured the newspaper and craigslist to find a good trailer that was in our price range.  After much searching, we found it.  It is a 16’ double axle trailer with somewhere around a 10,000 lb carrying capacity.  The only down side is that we have to re-wire it – one rear light doesn’t work and the electric brake power lines have been cut.  Hopefully that task will be completed this coming weekend and it will be ready to go!  We also replaced the 4 ply automobile tires that were on it with 10 ply trailer tires. 

New trailer!

 

After bringing the trailer home, we went to the farm and spent a few hours organizing the hoop house to make room for the RV to finally make its way in this week.  We began by building some improvised shelves out of some of our rough milled boards and some of our straw bales.  The result was an interesting combination of nooks and shelves.

strawbale shelves

 

It was very apparent that we would need more storage space than this to organize all of our tools and equipment, so we took our bonus scaffolding, added more rough sawn boards and viola – more shelves! 

scaffolding shelves

 

With all the storage space available, we started organizing all the buckets, bins and piles that had accumulated over the course of all of our building and work over the last 6 months.  I’m happy to report that everything found a home and we can probably even find it again!  We got rid of some interesting accumulated trash too.  That pile will have to get loaded up for the dump before the RV can be pulled in, but that’s the easy part!

While we were in an organizing mood, we re-stacked some of the milled lumber in order to make room for the boards Jeremy is bringing back from Colorado. We have another 12 foot pallet re-purposed from my brother’s remodel work that should keep the boards up off the ground. 

Newly (re)stacked lumber

For those keeping track, yes, Jeremy did go to Colorado this weekend.  He left on Sunday morning early and came back Tuesday evening.  As a teaser, the trip was full of surprises but I’ll write about that another day.