kyrsyan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I'm not even sure where to start on this. I want to do a fall winter garden. One of the problems with doing one here is the need for some protection. Not much but at least some.
I don't want to do glass or greenhouse plastic for several reasons. But before I even get to that point... I need a frame.
Now I've been looking at pvc and carbon fiber poles. Carbon fiber wouldn't hold up to our winter winds. Heck, even emc has problems with the wind occasionally.
I have a stash of pvc and I'm going to use that. But that likely will only cover two of the garden beds. I mean, two of them if I do poles every two feet on hopes of them having more strength. Maybe every 18 inches.
I have piles of old one inch tent poles. And access to used 1" emc. What I don't have is any experience whatsoever in bending poles without accidentally creasing them.
Family says get a pole bender. And that they are self explanatory. I'm not really feeling that.
Videos say build a jig. But how do I determine what the arc of the jog needs to be? And still, how do I do it and not crease the pole?
And after I work through allow those poles... I have a pile of poles from trampoline frames. Harbor Freight has a hydraulic bender that can bed those. But maybe overkill? And how do I do it to get a consistent even bend, not just a bend in one spot? Especially with poles that already have a bend to them.
So help, please. Eventually I want them all to be metal poles. Because I don't want to have to keep replacing poles.
I don't want to do glass or greenhouse plastic for several reasons. But before I even get to that point... I need a frame.
Now I've been looking at pvc and carbon fiber poles. Carbon fiber wouldn't hold up to our winter winds. Heck, even emc has problems with the wind occasionally.
I have a stash of pvc and I'm going to use that. But that likely will only cover two of the garden beds. I mean, two of them if I do poles every two feet on hopes of them having more strength. Maybe every 18 inches.
I have piles of old one inch tent poles. And access to used 1" emc. What I don't have is any experience whatsoever in bending poles without accidentally creasing them.
Family says get a pole bender. And that they are self explanatory. I'm not really feeling that.
Videos say build a jig. But how do I determine what the arc of the jog needs to be? And still, how do I do it and not crease the pole?
And after I work through allow those poles... I have a pile of poles from trampoline frames. Harbor Freight has a hydraulic bender that can bed those. But maybe overkill? And how do I do it to get a consistent even bend, not just a bend in one spot? Especially with poles that already have a bend to them.
So help, please. Eventually I want them all to be metal poles. Because I don't want to have to keep replacing poles.
