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[Stumpfarmer]

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The plastic at HD isn't supposed to last very long. It's mostly made for temporary uses like painting or covering something for the winter. You pretty much need to plan on only getting a season out of it. If it's under your house it will most likely last forever. If you don't want to replace plastic every year on your greenhouse you need to buy the 'greenhouse' plastic sold at horticultural supply houses and catalogs. Johnnys seeds carries some sizes. I have 4 year plastic on my greenhouse in it's second year. Still going very strong. I previously had the 3 year on my greenhouse and actually squeezed out a 4th year. Costs more but so worth it.

It was very expensive and 6ml strong, not the cheap thin painting stuff.
I bought it years ago & had green & hoop houses of it in California, where it was 110 in MAY and lasted like that until October~
And the stuff lasted 2 years, same company.
It says UV protected & all!
They just do not make it like they used to!

It actually is just crumbling in tiny pieces!
Well, at least I do not have to water IN the green house any longer.

Most rolled goods are no longer UV stable. I got a package of black zipties which had UV damage, and have kept deteriorating. I do not get what's happening at all, and I can't figure out how we're supposed to know ahead of time.

 

[Chickielady]

Yeah....and it is not like there has been a great deal of sun here this year!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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??? the fanny in cold water? tell me more

I've given in and given eggs every time!

This is one way to break broodies, sometimes it works, sometimes it does not:

A big pail of water, take the broody & dip in the water (cold water!)
A few dunks usually brings her out of her stupor.
Also works:
Put the broody in a small cage (transport type) and suspend from a tree limb or clothesline...and let the cage swing, swing it yourself if there is little wind.
The rocking motion will 'wake ' her up.
Hope this helps.
Say, where has RW been lately?

I talked briefly to T this afternoon, she texted she has been busy & "it has been stressful & crazy"
So I imagine that she has 'fought' for her job back & is working...hope so!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yeah- I'm done with HD for roll goods. This is the 100ft by 6 ft wide greenhouse tarp, UV resistant vinyl over polyester mesh stuff which I've got spooled on a pipe on my front porch- ordered from a wholesale greenhouse supply place. I've been inadvertantly testing its qualities this summer, including such usually disasterous exposures as "wadded up and stuck in a roll of rusty yard fencing so it will stop blowing around" and it hasn't lost flexibility nor shown a proclivity to getting holes punched through, which is good, I think?

I liked the look of that stuff, I told ya I admired it....where'd you get it?

Tarpaflex, on this page; the roll goods are at the very bottom, and it's six feet by 150 feet in the way that it's actually two meters by fifty meters, or more like 78 inches wide by 162 feet, although I suppose if you're making it into six by six or six by twelve foot finished tarps that would be the hemmed footage. Anyway, it's a deal, even with shipping- I think I paid about $145 for all of it.

I can't find... oh, heck, it was in my old wallet, that's no help: the place that sells the duo wall corrugated greenhouse cover ALSO sells it as rolled goods as well as 32" panels, but I can't remember the NW distributor's company name. That comes in 25 meter by two meter rolls, and it's not cheap, but they will ship on orders over $500- or would, I haven't checked on them lately because I've never had the budget.

 

[Chickielady]

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I liked the look of that stuff, I told ya I admired it....where'd you get it?

Tarpaflex, on this page; the roll goods are at the very bottom, and it's six feet by 150 feet in the way that it's actually two meters by fifty meters, or more like 78 inches wide by 162 feet, although I suppose if you're making it into six by six or six by twelve foot finished tarps that would be the hemmed footage. Anyway, it's a deal, even with shipping- I think I paid about $145 for all of it.

I can't find... oh, heck, it was in my old wallet, that's no help: the place that sells the duo wall corrugated greenhouse cover ALSO sells it as rolled goods as well as 32" panels, but I can't remember the NW distributor's company name. That comes in 25 meter by two meter rolls, and it's not cheap, but they will ship on orders over $500- or would, I haven't checked on them lately because I've never had the budget.

Oh Thanks Julia!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yup, and you've never lived until you've had a livestock panel ( a full one, 16 feet by 52 inches of 6X6 welded hot dip zero gague steel wire) held up by zipties come down in the middle of the night outside your bedroom window. Slowly but surely the panels are being tied up by soft steel wire.

 

[chickens4gramma]

Anyone have experience with a cat that has seizures? Geez, first my daughter, now my cat! Poor old yellow cat has had three "episodes" in the last two days. Eyes dilate, can't walk or move, back end stiff and kinda curls up. Then when she comes out of it, she walks funny and is off balance. Seems fine in between. Drinks a lot of water.
We have spent in the thousands for this cat, who was a skin-and-bones stray we found in 2004, and we just can't do more. Spent $140 a couple weeks ago to find out she does not have diabetes. Probably has kidney disease, but it would have been another $160 for the blood workup. We love her, but if it is her time.... We just don't want her to suffer.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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The plastic at HD isn't supposed to last very long. It's mostly made for temporary uses like painting or covering something for the winter. You pretty much need to plan on only getting a season out of it. If it's under your house it will most likely last forever. If you don't want to replace plastic every year on your greenhouse you need to buy the 'greenhouse' plastic sold at horticultural supply houses and catalogs. Johnnys seeds carries some sizes. I have 4 year plastic on my greenhouse in it's second year. Still going very strong. I previously had the 3 year on my greenhouse and actually squeezed out a 4th year. Costs more but so worth it.

It was very expensive and 6ml strong, not the cheap thin painting stuff.
I bought it years ago & had green & hoop houses of it in California, where it was 110 in MAY and lasted like that until October~
And the stuff lasted 2 years, same company.
It says UV protected & all!
They just do not make it like they used to!

It actually is just crumbling in tiny pieces!
Well, at least I do not have to water IN the green house any longer.

I have bought the 6 ml too for a few years now for other purposes and it is just as bad as the painting stuff, Not good for greenhouses anymore. Glad to see you have given up on it as greenhouse material!

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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??? the fanny in cold water? tell me more

I've given in and given eggs every time!

This is one way to break broodies, sometimes it works, sometimes it does not:

A big pail of water, take the broody & dip in the water (cold water!)
A few dunks usually brings her out of her stupor.
Also works:
Put the broody in a small cage (transport type) and suspend from a tree limb or clothesline...and let the cage swing, swing it yourself if there is little wind.
The rocking motion will 'wake ' her up.
Hope this helps.
Say, where has RW been lately?

I talked briefly to T this afternoon, she texted she has been busy & "it has been stressful & crazy"
So I imagine that she has 'fought' for her job back & is working...hope so!

I just throw them into another pen where they don't want to be. They pace the fence for a week or so then give up on being broody. Don't mess with the water, ice etc stuff. Just put them where they are not comfortable.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Hey Rustler, Was just sitting on my tack room porch looking at and listening to your bell. Thinking about no matter what I sell and what I leave I will always keep your bell!