Greenhouse Homemade with Cattle Panels
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2011
- One thing I found handy with this Greenhouse is as the tomato plants grew taller and taller there was always a place to tie the plants up to. I finally switched all the buckets to a double bucket system, you can find more videos here that shows how to build them. I plan to tie all the buckets together with hydroponics hose to be able to have an automatic watering system next year. I was able to put the greenhouse up in a week, it now has chicken wire along the bottom with nylon screen on the inside with 1/4 inch square holes in it. The screen came from a roll that was left over from when I insulated my house with cellulose insulation I bought from Regal Industries. It was used to keep most of the moths out. I closed it in with plastic for the winter and the broccoli plants are still growing from last year and it is now 2-17-12.
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Thank you for this video, this is the largest diy cattle panel high tunnel I've seen on here. I'm sharing for people that want a larger longer cpht.
Today, they call this a 'High Tunnel', thanks for the design!
The wife and I are building one this spring to extend our growing season hee in NH. You gave us some great ideas thank you !
i love how you raised the whole thing 30" off the ground - 12 feet wide, good height. AMAZING! great job
This is wonderful! I already decided on a greenhouse using the catle panels, but I'm now going to add the bottom pieces to it too, so much more room that way. I love it!
Thank you SO much for posting this.
Great job!!! I never would have thought of this but this thing should be plenty strong. Thank you for sharing.
Great use of stuff that around. You have given me some ideas. Thanks id like to see some updates on your plants and green house.
I really like how you used the cattle wire for the roofing part of the greenhouse. Good Job!
Such a wonderful idea! Thank you for sharing.
This is a great idea. Very nice job. Love the cattle panels. Saves the trouble of the putting up hoops and seems to give the plastic good support. Thanks for sharing.
I like that greenhouse you did a great job.
Love your set-up.
awesome idea! thanks for the insight on construction ideas, looking forward to more vids XD
Best DIY greenhouse design I've ever seen!
Looks real good, far more room than some I have seen with only a cattle panel, only about 6ft tall. I sure will consider doing one. Thanks.
Cracking job mate, some great ideas in the construction. You could easily add cold frames to the outside if needed too. Brilliant :)
Great design and most of all, you are very good at explaining how you built it. Thanks a lot! Will build something like this next to replace the wobbly PVC hoop greenhouse.
imystery man thank you so much for your video. I'm also planning one sort of like this and I should be able to build it under $2,000 with a water catchment system, holding tanks and solar power. All the plans are in my head and will be "winging" it, hopefully it turns out like I want it. We needed something like this, because we needed head clearance for my husband who is 6'4". Your video is the only one that I have found that even comes close to the design in my head. Thank you again.
I like that you have a 4 ft wall before you start the roof slope. Nothing worse than not being able to stand up comfortably while working. It seems to me that the cattle panels provide more support than pvc pipes every 8 ft or so. Great video. Thanks for an affordable, common sense idea.
Seen the mule tape and said to myself, yep looks like a lineman built it. Great job by the way
Your close, I was a mechanic for a REA and worked on the line trucks for 25 years. Thanks for the comment and the smile.
Also wanted to say this gave me so many good ideas for my greenhouse i want oneday
Love the instructions! Thank you so very much!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I already own the old power poles. I got the poles before EPA made it illegal for the PUD to give them away or even sell them.
I'll be building one of these.
Greetings from Northwestern Washington state.
Very smart work. I saw a greenhouse design in Gulfport, Miss. Which had tall poles at either end connected lengthwise with cable where sun screen was hung do it could be deployed in summer and retracted in winter. Like curtains.
Very smart way of building a green house very strong it will last years and years I have to keep buying mine every year new plastic they deteriorate in the sun and weather
awesome set up!
Thanks. I’m looking to build one of these in the next month for this season, fingers crossed!
great idea
Very Nice!! Thanks for the Information This is very efficient and strong.
u are a genious. luv it and u are a great spokesperson
excellent, keep on a keepin on! GOD BLESS N PRAISE JESUS!
Great video..Thanks for sharing
Excelente idea, se puede hacer muy fácil y sirve de depósito, almacenamiento, garaje, taller.... he visto que le ponen encima del plástico Polisombra que lo hace mas fresco.
Great job looks like you have a handle on it Thanks for the info
LOVE it thank you for sharing !!!!
Very nice.
Good job!
Another option to consider is using is using two cattle panels wide and running 3/4" rebar hoops every two feet. Ideally run a length of rebar along the peak and maybe a couple along the sides parallel with the ground for strength. That will give you a greenhouse 20' wide and just over 16' high at the peak. You can finish off the ends with more rebar and cattle panels.
Those are called purlins. A purlin is a structural member which runs perpendicular to your rafter and (which in the case of hoop houses, the hoops themselves function as both stud and rafter.) parallel along the same axis as the ridge on a gable roof; or parallel to the eave on a hip roof or cupola.
The term used to be as common as 'stud', joists and rafter, but with the proliferation of plywood and OSB sheeting for residential construction (which offers superior sheer resistance), purlins are pretty much only used in metal building fabrication.
We used those rope to pull fiber cable. I used to be a cable puller.
Actually the shade helps out a bunch in the hot summer, you want the morning sun as much as you can get it. The shade also helps in the evening when I need to work out there after work.
I use card board. several layers of heavy card board like they us to ship the wall TV sets. Works really well as walk way and weed / grass control.
Very very nice.
It is called Mule tape.
Yes, it is used to pull wire through conduit.
Thanks for sharing the idea of using it to hold down the plastic on my greenhouse. Keeping the plastic tight always helps it last longer.
Nice job. I have not seen a green house like this before. I like the fact that the plastic does not go all the way to the ground. I think that it would also help it last longer.
Please share any other thought on what has worked or not worked on your project.
Thank you!
I think I would use heavy duty UV zip ties to hold them together 1/4" wide type and they
are cheap from homedepot.
Excellent!
I used 3/4 inch plastic conduit to rap the edge of the plastic around. The Pipe is tucked under the ropes and I have never had a problem with it blowing out. When I tied the ropes across the top one end was tied tight but the other end has a loop tied in the rope about 16 inches above the tie down. That way you can really cinch the rope down tight. The thing I like about the rope (Muletape) is it easy to untie, it doesn't rot, very strong. 3/8 muletape to hold the plastic on 1/2 for top ropes.
I hope you saw the part about the center supports for a wet heavy snow. The dry snow blows right off but a wet heavy snow will build up and bring it to the ground without supports. I just screwed some 4 ft 2x4 on top of the 2x4 post and used a couple of short scrap for it to set on. If you put 2 4x4 on the end for a door way you can screw some 2x4s to the poles and the 4x4s to close off the end. I hope this helps you out.
Have you considered using mulch like shredded leaves, the earth worms love them and the worm casings are probably the best fertilizer you can get.
I have been using the belts off old tread mills, if you can find some black walnut hulls or wood chips, that should do the job because black walnut produces a safe and natural herbicide.
The plastic was rapped around the pipe at the bottom. The ropes that go over the top it what holds the plastic in place. We had a 5 inch snow here, very wet and heavy and it piled up in the center and bent it down to the ground. I was able to straighten the cattle panels and put it back together and only had one small hole in the plastic. I now have temporary 2x4 post down the middle until the problem of snow is over. Today it is snowing heavy and I will soon find out if that will do the trick
Pretty smart idea.
beautiful
a cow shocker for squirels, lol fried squirers for breakfast!
Great job, warning if you live where it snows they do buckle. I know that from experience. If you had a heater inside to melt the snow as it falls it would probably make it.
Its called Mule tape. Its good to 3000 LBS
I was gonna suggest also you could rig a gutter line each side of the greenhouse at the bottom to catch the rain water so it would be a cheap way to water and theres nothing better than rain water :3 good luck!
I've been thinking about doing this, so when I searched and saw your greenhouse, it may be the best one on UA-cam so far. When you tied the plastic down, is there a way to tie the metal pole going the length of the house to hold the plastic tighter? Thanks for putting this up!
love it!
Good job ! Luv that squirrel deterrent !...... Lmao..... If you stick a grizzly bear in there it also will stop critters !
Nice!
pvc pipe with some holes to plant strawberries and hang them up right with a dripi of water down a cotton rope
No problem, I hope you read the part where I said i added temporary supports down the middle to handle a wet heavy snow. the dry snow hasn't been any problem it just blows off. The wet heavy snow that builds up and builds up will bring it to the ground without the supports. It happened once and I had to straighten out the cattle panels and was able to even reuse the plastic. It didn't cost anything but it was a lot of work. I just use 2x4 as post with a short 3 ft piece screwed to the top.
DUDE your good.!! Thanks!!!
How wide is this? Thanks for the video. I think that is a great idea!
great thanks!
I like it. How well did you make it through the winter?
This is a nice build, but much bigger than what I plan for my own. It does give me ideas to ponder, for sure.
The rope rigging is usually done in a Chenille system which is not quite the same as it lays diagonally across the hoops and offers support to the cover as well as strength to the individual hoops that each rope crosses. Usually someone attaches eye bolts and then strings the entire rope in a diagonal pattern across the top of the hoop house. The tension helps that system work well.
Did you ever enclose the ends of the hoop house? If so, how do you handle pollination then.
What grade of poly did you end up using? How long has it lasted before the hoop house frame having to be reskinned?
Did the gray pvc pipe end up degrading the plastic poly cover over time? Some folk claim it will destroy the plastic cover and had to be painted or covered with tape before using with the cover.
If you closed the ends up, do you have a video regarding that process?
The cattle panels are 16'X50" and I plan on using four of them on my own project. At least 4 for the roof and perhaps doing the ends with an extra one. My framework will be similar to your's, but of a wood fence-like structure. I am glad to see 12' was the final width on your's as I had planned only 8' foot as my width and 16.66' in length. I have not set my posts just yet, so I'll widen the holes out to make it 12' in width. That will give me more growing room for the raised beds I want to add in.
I notice that your build does not show the cover actually nailed or stapled down at the bottom of it. That is unusual, as most folk end up tacking it down and then adding a 1X2" board on top of it to hold the plastic cover in place. They do this on the ends, at the door and at any window. I like how you did your's at the sides of the hoop house.
I see on another video from overseas, that the folk there used barbed wire in stringing up tomato runners, as they claim the barbed wire run across the width of the roof in the hoop house holds the plant stringers better for gripping by the plant, but regular wire allows the plant's stingers to fall off easier when the bush gets heavy.
Thanks for posting the video.
Do you think using galvanized poultry fencing would work just as well provided I add a bit more structural support? I priced out cattle panel at my local TSC store here in Ontario and it's $75 for 26 feet. I'm hoping to build a greenhouse the same size as this so paying $75 each for a few panels could get costly. I think I could shore up poultry fencing by bending metal electrical conduit and placing every few feet or more.... because of snow loads
I viewed this fine example 6x..very workable. You don't mention how it is when it takes on a "SNOWLOAD"..Any new insights. This is my fav after looking a 20 of them on YT.Yours is high enuf, long enuf, for sure cheap enuf..but just lacking in a bit more info. U still look at this channel? Again, Well done!~mate.Respectfully, Margo
Nice work! What are the heavyest winds you have had?
nice
I need the squirrel zapper
How sturdy is the ceiling? Could you potentially hang pots from it?
Ok. I thought that was the idea. If you closed the walls in, the plastic could be rolled down for warmth or rolled up from the bottom for ventilation.
Another thought. I'm in TX and particularly in part of Tornado alley.. it's very windy here. I am a little worried about the panels poking through the plastic as it's constantly jostled by the wind. It wouldn't take much to weld the panels instead and then spray them with a plastic coating.
Although I could weld the cattle panels, the paracord or rope idea seems better in that I don't have to worry over slag pieces ripping my cover when done and no worries as to the welding fumes, either.
Did you ever end up having to add a ridge plate to this hoop house for extra strength?
I used t-post in the winter to add support for the wet snows. I had one wet heavy snow smash it to the ground, I was able to straighten everything back out and get it back up ok, but I did add t-post (a short piece of 2x4 screwed to the top of the 2x4 post) which can be removed when it warms up and the snow problem is gone.
I see you mentioned that you were moving it, but when/if you relocate it, if you were to add in some sheer bracing, you could probably get away with having only 1 or 2 columns. some cross bracing spanning from the base, to a few feet off the ridge line on the opposing side would help keep the top from moving under a load which would increase the efficiency of a column being able to transfer any load to the ground while using minimal floor space. You may not even need the columns if you do x-bracing, but that would hinder longitudinal pathing along the base walls.
When I get time I am going to make a video about the killer cucumber trellis I made using the cattle panels as well.
Nice green house. I am unclear on what the pipes are for - and what do you attach the plastic to?
Thanks!
Beautiful structure! Hey...isn't the point of a greenhouse to enclose it so the temperature increases to make you spring temperatures longer?
terry palmore I wondered why it's open, too!
Oh cool, I plant directly in the ground in my greenhouse and I constantly have to deweed and pull stupid grass out. Its a never ending battle.
I cant use the black walnuts because it would hurt or kill my other plants, but its good to know for the future :)
how tall are the sides that the panels set on. thank you
great job, how tall is the arch? I plan on using the same idea but will sit on pallet walls, thanks Dolores
how did your bucket potatoes turn out. I'm trying a barrel and screen method this year.
I think your rope is actually called mule tape. I really like your design
Yes I have heard it called Mule Tape, thanks.
$20 A PANEL???!?! It’s $90 a panel at our tractor supply here in Hawaii. Man we getting ripped off. I love your structure. If the panels wasn’t so expensive here I’d so take on that project.
I would not make it this long again because it is to hard to get rid of the heat, it would be better to make more smaller ones.
How wide & tall is the hoop house?
I did catch that the catlle panels are 30" of the ground, but missed the other dimensions.
Thnx.
The plastic is held in place by all the ropes that go over the top, the plastic is rapped around the pipe at the bottom.
I like your build. What does your weather temp get down to in the winter?
It is suppose to get down to -3degrees 1-30-19
With no end panels do you cover the plants in buckets when the temp drops?
You said the cattle panels are 20.00 dollars a piece. Where do you get those? From the farm supply store also? I would have to check where one is my area, since I live in a major city. Love the greenhouse idea though.
lol, yes I need the electric wire. See I make squirrel houses from car tires and sell them at my web site and I have over 60 of the squirrel houses hung in the trees around here and the squirrels are pretty thick if you know what I mean.
How long does the plastic sheeting last? Have you had to change it or is the original stuff still holding up?
I came to the conclusion that it took to much time to keep all the buckets watered. The buckets will work great if you use the double bucket system and tie all the buckets together with hydroponic tubing and connect them to a master bucket with a float valve which needs to be fed from a 55 gallon barrel. All the buckets would need to be set up level with the master bucket. This way to check to see if you need to water, All that would have to be done is make sure the barrel has plenty of water.
How did you stop the grass from growing inside the greenhouse?
You got the poles from work? could I get them around my area? I live in east Tennessee. Also do they only give them to employs? sorry for all the questions but im really wanting to do this. I need a fast solution for a temp barn my old one roof is falling in. thanks for posting this video.
Thanks imysteryman I cant wait to get started!
Awesome job! Huge! What I don't understand... Everyone is saying these cattle panels are 20 bucks! Where can I get them at that price? They are expensive here in NY.
Tractor Supply $19.99 good luck!
There 20 bucks in Va. also
quick ?...... what the highest point in the greenhouse , from floor to the top, in feet?
About 8 feet at the center
I liked the vid...but, just a little confused on the open ended greenhouse.
Kinda hard to keep the bugs out.
Tractor Supply has them.
is the shade from the trees a problem?
The reason I needed the electric fence to keep the squirrels out is because I built and hung close to 70 squirrel houses in the trees in in the woods around my house. I kinda over did the squirrel house thing, O well; live and learn. I was selling them at my web site but I haven't had the time lately to build them. They are made out of used car tires and the squirrels love them.
You have a video about the squirrel houses???
No I don't right now but I ought to make one.
imystery man please do that would be awesome to see!
Do you eat the squirrels?
Haven't eaten any yet, but I would if I got hungry enough.