Cattle Panel Question

[Ruralhideaway]

Depending on how much space you want under the arch you could have a nice little open air garden room under there. Or whatever, so much you could do.

 

[aart]

I'd stick with the wire instead of hog rings.....
....not sure the rings would go around the two 1/4" dia rods on the panels.
Wire will give you better tightening abilities and be easier to get back off if needed.
Biggest problem I had was getting the panel edges tight together before tying.
I used large and small vice-grips to clamp them together when doing my hoop coop before tying.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

I'd stick with the wire instead of hog rings.....
....not sure the rings would go around the two 1/4" dia rods on the panels.
Wire will give you better tightening abilities and be easier to get back off if needed.
Biggest problem I had was getting the panel edges tight together before tying.
I used large and small vice-grips to clamp them together when doing my hoop coop before tying.

Extra advantage, I already have the wire, tons of it.

I'd hoped to get there tomorrow but we have snow coning hard so likely not. I'm bummed, it's been dry and workable. Back to winter.

 

[aart]

Back to winter.

It'll be gone in a day, you need a rest anyway

 

[Ruralhideaway]

It'll be gone in a day, you need a rest anyway

Haha thanks maybe I do at that. I'll know better in the morning how sore that header made me. I have a feeling it would be unwise to try to get those panels up without fresh shoulders. I read through everyone's build articles and really wonder where the pain talk is. Either I'm old or... no yeah I'm old.

 

[paintedChix]

OMG, that made me laff . Hope you aren't in the part of NY that is being smacked hard by "Ol man Winter"... Wow, on both sides... 1 w/ heavy/deep snow & other with high winds & flooding rains/tides. Full moon, too.

After an early (usually not till April) tornado warning yesterday, to see on the news that both coasts are being evac'd, I made a lame joke with my family. Hmmm... kinda scary if u let yourself think bout it too much.

Not sure which way I'm going to do the panel. Thinking it's going to go over a walk way rather than on the house side of the walk way. Then walkway will be shaded, too. Not absolutely necessary, but might be fun?



The tree didn't actually "block" the window, but when the sun came to this side of the house, it sure did protect that end a lot from straight light and heat... (even the cold in the winter). Since removing it, our power bills have been almost double (well, we also removed carpet in 3 of the main rooms, tho the insulation under the floors is surprisingly good, so???). The greenery in front of the granddaughters & in front of the wild growing shrubs is part of the walkway. That walk way is going to slowly become made of either cement blocks or cut tree rounds w/ clover or some other SHORT ground cover (ideas). Tired of our dogs digging holes in the walkway, mostly right in front of the porch steps. Currently have 3 free range bantamXs out here (coming from the carport on other side of that tree) - but they haven't discovered the front area yet or the porch (when they do, they'll get caught at nite and put back into a coop/run behind the house- love having them out there, but don't want them on front porch when they have access to the back already). For now, I'm enjoying seeing the 3 outside...

I still haven't figured out the best time(s) to prune those shrubs. Every time I've been told is good, they are either budding or flowering, so I leave them alone, again! They are a lot wilder looking now than in 2016, LOL. REALLY need to prune them. Also, seriously thinking of putting something else in their place, but not sure what? Fruiting shrubs - honey berries, blue berries (not acid enough?), raspberries??? Any ideas would be welcome on that front.

Last but not least, yeah, we may be getting old (& feeling it occasionally) but we sure do learn to do things in other ways and get just as much and in my case, sometimes a lot more, done than I did when I was in my "gung-ho" 20s. Larry & I will be celebrating our 30th anniversary in June and our 3rd grandchild (a boy, this time to "break" the Hoffman girl record) is due in 7 days, so we are doing OK!!

 

[Ruralhideaway]

I think you could do really cool stuff with these panels. Take a look at this, I'm considering something similar http://cattlepanelcreations.blogspot.com/2014/06/3-cattle-panels-22.html?m=1

Trees and shrubs are the best for cooling no question.

That storm hit me. 20" plus of heavy wet snow. Crushed my temp run almost to the ground. It was only thrown together to last till spring, now I know how I need to build better. No power, broken trees everywhere, many problems today. More later!

 

[aart]

That storm hit me. 20" plus of heavy wet snow. Crushed my temp run almost to the ground. It was only thrown together to last till spring, now I know how I need to build better. No power, broken trees everywhere, many problems today. More later!

Aggghhhhh! Hang in there!

 

[NotAFarm]

I love cattle panels!!

I second attaching the panels one at a time to the base. If you are attaching to a building, start on the opposite end (the one with the door or solid wall). Put the door/wall in place on the first panel to "shape" it more easily and then add the remaining panels.

Here is how I used a single cattle panel for a trellis (rose and clematis).
Base is 8 ft apart, held in place by four 3 ft metal stakes pounded in 2 ft and the panel then zip-tied to them.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Aggghhhhh! Hang in there!

Could have been worse. There's lots of weight on everything right now, bit nerve wracking. Powers back on so that's nice. I propped the run back up, my pvc pipe over short Tpost just kind of folded up. The good news is nothing pulled apart so it'll still make spring! 2x4 wire really can collect snow!

I love cattle panels!!

I second attaching the panels one at a time to the base. If you are attaching to a building, start on the opposite end (the one with the door or solid wall). Put the door/wall in place on the first panel to "shape" it more easily and then add the remaining panels.
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Here is how I used a single cattle panel for a trellis (rose and clematis).
Base is 8 ft apart, held in place by four 3 ft metal stakes pounded in 2 ft and the panel then zip-tied to them.

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Your rose is beautiful! Great cattle panel usage.