[TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...

[Joshua McGregor]

Might be a good idea to go look at a few commercial greenhouses. Or if you have a county ag extension agent, or something of the like, go pick their brain. That's what they are there for.










Anyone even remotely interesting is mad
in some way or another. 


	-Anon




> From: rfertner at cox.net
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:27:21 -0500
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...
> 
> Don't take it as gospel, I'm pulling it from distant memory. Way back when I
> grew up in Michigan, this guy my dad knew was building a green house ( not
> as big as yours). He had put the long axis N-S so the plants got an even
> amount of sunlight. His house faced west so the greenhouse was in the
> backyard parallel to the house. I wish I could say this guy was sort of
> authority on greenhouses.
> 
> Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Vida
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 5:13 PM
> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/13/2012 10:11 PM, Bruce . wrote:
> > Actually, Andy should THANK those charitable folks who siphoned off 
> > the gas and thus saved his carburetor from getting plugged with 
> > shellac!  That bus sat out in the AZ sun for - what?  - a decade (?) 
> > before Andy drove it east.
> 
> No... about 3 years.  Plenty long enough.  The sun destroyed the heavy duty
> tarp which destroyed the solid maple jeweler's bench I built in college.  I
> still have the top but it is nuked.  I will build another. 
> I can get rock maple here, jointed and planed to dimension for $2.25 bd-ft.
> 
> Speaking of buildings... I have a question for the learned members of this
> forum.  I just came into a 20x50 greenhouse for next to nothing. 
> It is a defunct commercial building, heated, plumbed, has power and all
> that.  Is there any special orientation to which the building should be set
> when I put it up?  Should the long axie go N-S?  E-W?  I am going to pour a
> footing and a 4' apron all around, then 4 courses of block and the glass
> framing atop that.
> 
> Any information would be very much appreciated.  I am very much looking
> forward to putting this up.
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