High Tunnel Greenhouses Made with PVC Hoops and Homemade Sawmill Lumber
12 months in 28 minutes
Made out of PVC Pipes and they are tough.
DIY PVC Greenhouse step by step construction.
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I spent 1 year researching, planning, testing and pre-building, then I spend the next entire summer from late March through October building them.
Watch and you'll see us in coats at first with bare dirt in the garden, then frost cloth covering the plants in the planter boxes, then shorts, then coats again at the end...
The last scene is me sitting in one high tunnel installing the blower fan.
It's cold and raining outside and 85°F inside, and it's freezing at night but the plants are still thriving.
The garden went for 2 extra months in the new greenhouses before it got too cold for the plants at night.
Even in the winter when it's been 5-10°F outside during the day, it's still making it up to 80°F as soon as the light hits the tunnels.
Normally we would plant our garden about the first week in June, then it would be dead from the first frost before the 15th of September just 4 months later.
Now we might get 7 or maybe even 8 months of growing with these wonderful structures.
The cost was about $1,500 each but I also used a ton of scrap and junk stuff that I could find around the ranch.
In the year of planning, I knew I would need a LOT of heavy wood to build these and Covid and the mandates and shutdowns had already driven the cost of lumber off the chart.
So during the planning year, I designed and built a sawmill from scratch (see my building a sawmill video) and then while the price was still low, I got a load of logs trucked in so I could cut my own wood for all of my projects.
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Don't you wish the job itself was the 28 minutes of cut video?! Ladies and gentlemen...That was months of work Every day. Ranch life doesn't take vacation days! Good job Brotha!
You have the inside knowledge of how LONG and LONGER that project was. It just dragged on and on and on... As I say in the video and as you know sis... I NEVER GIVE UP...!
Awesome job Captain Wingnut 👏 they really look smart 👍👍👍
Thanks 👍
You and your mustache must be the 2 coolest people on You Tube!
You didn't start your video saying "Call sign Captain Wingnut" LOL!
Oops... It was soooo windy and I did that take about 14 times trying to find a break in the wind... guess I was in too big of a hurry!! Thanks for noticing. Thanks for watching... Wingnut Out!
Really nice. A lot of thought went into this.
Nice one. Thanks for having shared it :-).
My pleasure! Thanks for watching and a nice compliment.
👍👍👍👍👍 An awful lot of info here that can be used in so many ways. Thanks.
Thanks Sheila.
What an amazing video and work ethic. Nice work.
Amazing brother!!
Thanks for the visit
impressive! lots of detail & planning.
Top job sir 😀😀😀
Thank you! Cheers!
Big job well done.
Thanks a ton!
Awesome project, Garth! What an incredible amount of planning, but those should really last. I have a friend in Spanish Fork who makes and sells hoop house kits. They’re strong but I doubt they’re anything like your engineering!
Hey Steve. Yeah, we’ve only ever been able to plant after the first week of June and our first frost is the 2nd week of Sept so our growing season is short. These tunnels kept produce growing until mid Nov last year and our tunnels are already producing summer squash and the peppers and tomatoes and egg plant are already in blossom and our normal planting time is still a month away!!
Use the PVC electrical conduit for UV resistance.
There's also a tan color PVC pipe intended to be used above ground. It's called brown line...
Great talent, keep up the good work!! Increase your stats = P r o m o s m!!
Thank you so much!