Well we finally landed on a design to work with. It is a green house made using cattle pannels and man are they strong! I hung all my weight off my friends and it didn't budge an inch! It will be for firewood storage come winter and growing the rest of the year. It's gonna be sweet! If I build it 12ft by 7 ft how much wood you think I could get in there for the winter safely? I'm guessing 1.5 cord stacked right.
Heck, you could put one of those up around preexisting stacks really easy, and just run a long narrow tarp down the middle of the top, leaving the sides open. Nice idea.
Hmm there's a thought! Removable ends for the winter then I can simply move it down the line when it's time! Nice Brian.
Dangit that's sweet, love the simplicity. I think I may build a green house next year. I already have the cattle panels
Well 12 ft deep X 7 ft wide with an average of 5 ft is 420 cubic foot.. Or 3.28 cord. The 2 edge rows will be about 4 ft, the next center rows will be 7ft. So an average of 5 ft is veryconservative.
Looks like the wire mesh used in concrete slabs. I like that design......very simple, if you have a way to transport the wire. Nice find, Pete.
Cattle panels are thicker than mesh in concrete but that does look like what he is using as its quite flimsy. Cattle panels are not very cheap and are pretty heavy. Roughly 3/16" bar to make the grid. I haven't priced out recently but used to be $50-60 a panel 4ftx16 I think. Seems to me that you'd be able to build out of 2x4s for cheaper and stronger?
Thanks for the clarification nate. I have no experience with cattle panels, and only a little with the wire mesh.
Nop it's 20 Dallas a panel and I only need three. I priced everything using PVC vs 2*4 vs Mesh and mesh is defiantly cheaper. We finished up my buddies about a week ago and I can literally hang off it by grabbing the mesh and lifting my ft. I do agree though his panels look flimsy compared to what we used...
Gonna transport with my truck and a ratchet it works pretty good. Well unless it turns into a slingshot...
Transporting it is a real concern. If you can do that, you have a real option. I made a cloche using PVC. 4x12. Works good for plants. Would need to be taller to be an option for drying wood.
Well this board again! Seriously what's the deal?! I posted 2 more posts in here. One about the plastic and another on the mesh... Both are gone! Without wasting more time. Make sure plastic is UV rated, most clear plastic from hardware store isn't. Price on the cattle mesh might be "Alaska pricing"
They carry decent, 1 or 2 at a time anyways in a bed of a truck. Set it in all the way in, Reach up a few squares, pull up, set the bow, push in, and shut the tailgate. I've carried 2 at time this way, it wont go anywhere, but I always strap it in. Yea, cattle panels are $20 for 50" x 16'. I'm making Tomato Cages out them currently, and have done Cucumber arches in the past.
Wish I had seen that before I bought one for my wife at Tractor Supply. Although the one I got was on clearance for $80 and not a bad deal, we will see how long the plastic lasts, its that string reinforced poly. The poles are galvanized and seem pretty stout. I anchored it to some pallets instead of risking whether the stakes would hold in the fill dirt it is sitting on. Built some shelves out of spruce limbs and pallet slats.
