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

[Andrew Vida]

Ah!  The ag extension.... yes, that is the answer.  I always forget 
about those folks.  Thanks for the reminder.

On 8/16/2012 11:07 PM, Joshua McGregor wrote:
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>> 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...
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>> 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.
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>> Rob
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>> -----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
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>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Any information would be very much appreciated.  I am very much looking
>> forward to putting this up.
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