Sunday morning was wonderfully still. This is important since our goal was to put
the 4000 sq. ft. piece of plastic over the hoops. One must realize that a 4000 sq. ft. piece of
plastic functions much like a sail and in a strong wind can easily lift a
person several feet into the air.
We started by installing the channel on both end walls. This took about an hour and we had help
again. Doug came back (we were surprised
too) and my brother, Scott, came up.
Between the 4 of us, we got the channel on and the site ready in about
an hour.
Channel on the South wall
A friend from work, Brent Ragsdale, came to help put the
plastic on about the time that we were done with the channel. It was finally time to cover the hoops!
We spread out the plastic in the field next to the
greenhouse and managed to immediately poke a hole in it on one of the cedar
stumps in the field. Fortunately, Doug
had some amazing tape in his car that we used to patch over the hole. Then we were ready. We all fanned out on the edges of the plastic
and started pulling it over the hoops.
It took a lot of pulling, lifting, fanning and yelling from one side of
the greenhouse to the other, but we got it over the hoops.
Patching the hole
Laying out the plastic
Pulling it over the hoops
Once it was in place, we started locking it down into the
channeling. We did the east wall, then
the west wall, then the 2 ends. Locking
in the plastic took much longer than we expected – almost 2 hours – but was
mostly uneventful. All of our helpers
got to enjoy actual shade inside the building before leaving for the day.
We finished up at the farm around 1:15 and gratefully headed
for home. Lest you think that the
greenhouse is actually finished, we still have to build and install the doors
and paint the end walls before the structure will be legitimately weather tight
and finished. That will have to wait for
another day.
Covered!
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