Wow JO, you dont mess around! A sizable investment, hope they serve you for many years!
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I am looking for a good quality greenhouse plastic, anyone know of any that will last more than a few years?
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This is what works here regionally. Polycarbonate cells panels.
Ha! The new place we bought was owned by a long haul contract truck driver. Left behind is ~20,000 pounds of new store front plate glass panels. How, why, unknown. In now age weakened factory wooden shipping frames.
Yours for the hauling away. Too big. Too heavy. For old man me to risk handling.
A hazardous waste to me; some day I’ll have to pay to get out of the way.
Steve Unruh
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Thanks’ Steve, but I need it for hoop style greenhouse(20x40’)
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You should think about taking SteveU up on this Marcus, if you have anyway to store it. Will be worth the effort.
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If only I only had a place to store it, I’m in the midst of moving in with family at the moment and getting rid of anything I don’t need, minimizing and simplizing life. Bills to pay and want to be a landowner at some dang point so I can have places to put things like that
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Good for you Marcus. Right now is a good time to tighten the sending in any way possible. You did one of the big ones that most people can’t, transportation fuel cost. Savings in paying taxes on this too.
Any in home small business to make monies on the side. My CPA said do not start a write off company or small business until they tell you that you need to. Why? Well you need to be making a lot of profit for start up for it to work and not fail the business. The bee keeping I do is going to stay a hobby as long as I can before having to get a business license for Washington State.
Bob
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Marcus. No place they can be stored at your folks? Being nutz, I would dig a trench and set the glass panels in it upright and cover it with sheet metal. Secure and taking up almost no space. Anyone can no see the path we are going down and there are no solutions. In the coming year food will become a crisis and feeding a family will be a matter of life and death. If climate doesn’t take out food supplies then lack of fertilizers will make our normal methods of food production very difficult. Cost of fuel and parts to keep supply chains open will only add to the availability and cost of providing food. Controlled growing environments for individuals will be a major way to deal with some of these problems. Glass.
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If I had anyway to do it I would, been working on building outbuildings right now and next will be a greenhouse build that will fit on my car trailer. Have to keep everything mobile, never know when you will have to pickup and run with the way things are going and no home front of my own to defend from
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It is a shame that Washington State is going down the same path in our government system as in California. It makes Alabama look like a more practical place to live.
Bob
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I have been implementing this guy’s methods for years. If more would follow his que we would not been in this food mess we’re in. Joel Salatin - There's a Different Way to Farm - YouTube
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Al Frick,
Happy to hear you are a Joel Salatin fan, we have adapted several of his ideas for our little homestead. Rather than his style of chicken pens I make an 8 x 10 frame of treated 2x4 that sits directly on the ground, every 2’ drill a 3/4 hole in this frame and put 9-10’ piece of 1/2 PVC pipe to make a mini hoop house, cover the whole thing with chicken wire and put a tarp on half of the hoops. This is light enough that I can just drag it across the pasture this will be its 8th year other than a couple of new tarps from HF. each year we do 50 broilers in this pen and we have more than we can eat. We also made a tub plucker (whiz bang style) from the net, and cut the top off an old gas waterheater for a scalder, cheap and works great. If you are interested I can share our moveable pig pen construction that we move daily and let the hogs clear brush.
kent
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For me the most important thing is NOT using any poison/ pesticides. He discribes it in one of his books , cant remember wich one. The weed can go six feet tall, but I wont spray, no matter what. Next is the chickens, super meat and super easy. After my energy strugle that is next on my list. Very inspiring person.
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I would like to see a picture of the pig pen. Our ground is very steep, and uneven, so portability gets tricky. I like the small fenced areas for cattle, or hogs, moved according to grazing, or soil disruption, then in 3 days follow with chickens. This system eliminates the need for chemical wormers.
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Boring …, the whole day was spent wallpapering, 10 hours, and was not allowed to drive a meter with the wood car, boring …
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Ha! Ha! Me too 27 years ago. And a better English word would be “tedious”.
Hey man, you botch up fail; you then get kicked back outside to wood play.
Cost you some on-the couch sleeping time though.
Give her lots of flowers for her job well done. Beautiful, honey. Just as you saw it in your minds-eye. I sure wish I had your imagination.
S.U.
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Jan,
Well, it appears that you’re good at it, even if it is boring. I do like things to look nice, but I’d rather someone else do it. I am the same way about painting and finishing wood—boring.
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I just want to say for the record, I hate trying to burn wet wood. 
That is all carry on.
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I bought 3 hog panels (about 3’ high, 16’long) and cut one in half. on the ends I welded 4" pieces of scrap 3/4" pipe so that two corners can be joined like a hinge and the hinge pin is a 4’ or longer piece of 3/8 rebar. This way I can pound the rebar into the ground while it acts to hold the panels together. I also put a couple of pipe pieces in the middle of the 16 foot sides. I get an 8 x 16 foot pen that is good for 2 hogs. Each day I will pull the rebar out of the soil, but still holding the panels together and by pulling the corner 3-4’ at a time walk it across the ground. In brush I just take the chain saw an cut brush or small trees close to the ground and lift the panel a couple inches to clear the stumps. Once the hogs get around 300 pounds I have had them try to lift the panels to get out, but only a couple escapes in the last decade. I move them daily to a new 8 x16 place, and I string a tarp across one end for shade. I have cut an empty plastic drum in 2, so that I have a feeder and water wired to one side so that they cannot tip them over. I am not sure how to attach a photo.
kent
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Jan, she certainly picked one of the nicest/sunniest days this spring. What did you do to deserve this punishment?
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