Life goes on - Winter 2024

Ouch, I feel your pain. Ours went flat last winter.
I do see though that the arches didn’t go through the plastic so it could probably be salvaged.

I met this guy once upon a time buying our first meatchickens (Bresse) and he showed me around including his greenhouse and told me he had a youtube video on how they made it, perhaps it will help you or give you ideas.

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Bob is optimistic!
Bob B
:cowboy_hat_face:

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The tunnel in your video was excellent Johan. I thing I have watched that guy and his brother doing chainsaw video’s as well. The additional purlins were key in that tunnel IMO. Because we get so much snow here a lot of tunnels have a vertical post at the center of the hoops. One thing about adding purlins is they support the plastic better as well. I’m going to try and build at least one this spring but I will be using geodesic frames. None of the struts will be longer than 4.5 feet long and not that hard to assemble since all the triangles are the same dimension. I have some experience from long ago building geodesic domes. Incredibly strong. I’ll be using this guys plans. A brit. Very smart.

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A full years membership now in our local Grange.

So I am now operating the wood furnace that supplement heats the forced air electric furnace:





The space heated is an old 1920’s 30’s High School basketball gymnasium:


Furnace system works with time to heat.
Back-asswards set-up with the forced heated air coming out at the high ceiling. Cool air returning under the old wooden bleachers benches.
Saving grace is a big, deep firebox.
Steve Unruh

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You guys night find this interesting. Basically the headline says it all which means all the climate models are essentially wrong. I didn’t know what that means for timeline to doom, but it definitely extends them.

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Great! That means that the more land we cultivate and grow trees on, the more the global warming people have it wrong. I don’t know about y’all, but we have planted 7000 trees since we moved here in 1978.

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I don’t know if just more tree’s does it. It definitely doesn’t hurt, but grasses tend to grow faster with more biomass per acre. Tree’s are determinate on spacing which is one huge issue we have in the US/Canada where the spacing was originally for pulp trees on a 30 year rotation, and because they are so close, they don’t get the girth they need for lumber. They need to be thinned.

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That’s right Pete. Global warming people are morons being goaded on by vested interests looking for more control and revenue from carbon taxes. I’d ship them all to the Sahara. Perfect for their massive PV arrays, No nasty carbon infested trees and no cows polluting the atmosphere with their farts.

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We also have some snow here, the weather is cold and a little windy, the temperature is below freezing all day, in the morning about -10°C. My workshop is not heated, so you have to work quickly to warm up, well, this little excavator is ready for work again, the clearance of the moving parts is within normal limits, the hammer has been restored. I tested it in the afternoon, it’s a little toy, but it broke up quite a few rocks, so Fergie got some work too.



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I feel for you. It is -10C here at 5pm. It is supposed to warm up to a balmy -5C tomorrow. looks for speedo

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Nobody looks good in a speedo Sean. Actually at these temps a band aid should be enough to hide Mr Floppy. Remember. I swam in Lake Superior so I know what I’m talking about.

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Yes, thanks to Seinfeld, we all know about “shrinkage “.

GC

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I dont mind cold but cold water is where l draw the line. Something l need to work on. Its apparently werry beneficial. Its just that l preffer scratching these particular organs while they are out of the body. Not drawn in to like the the neck area :smile:

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Tom, you got a way with words that puts pictures in my mind. :grin:

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A speedo is great to get space on a crowded public beach especially if you ask people if they can put lotion on you. As far as swimming, I have been in Lake Superior a few times, and a few times way up in canada in late may/early june, a bandaid would suffice basically that time of year, you are just protecting your bits from black flies. We didn’t have a shower on our fishing trip in canada so day 2-3, you got rank smelling, and it was either swim or smell. Them were the good ole days when you could camp for like 5 bucks a night in canada for lot rent… They changed it to like 10 bucks a person, so a motel was actually cheaper.

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I went out to my chainsaws shed the other day, -15°c, sure i felt for the little saws :grin:

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Laughing out loud Goran. My wife wanted to know what was so funny. She didn’t get it. I guess I’ve always tried to shield her from the vicissitudes of maleness. I feel that there are enough blows to my ego with out her knowing about “shrinkage”

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Me too, I wish I could give that post more than just one like. Best laugh I’ve had in a while.

GC

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Thats a good one :smile: l got a question about the manufacturer and origin of this blade thugh but l will rather keep it to my self. Dont want to look racist :smile:

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Is that one of those new extend-o-matic bars designed for plunge cuts or is It is this the older version that requires lube and a little blue pill?

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