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Marshall', I've been curious how folks "get away" with putting plastic over wire. I think they may use cattle panels because the heavy wire quonset hut type tunnels I've seen in pictures look like that. I would think that concrete reinforcement wire would begin to rust in minutes with all the moisture, trapped by plastic film. But, ripping and punctures have to be so much of an issue anytime metal and plastic film get together . . .
The "relationship" between covering and structure is dynamic. (I really want to put about every 3rd word into quotation marks this morning
.) Anyway, a 30mph wind inside a film covered tunnel is -- chaotic!!
I can see how the soft nature of chicken wire would add some cushioning to the film. Any loose wire ends will come right thru it, tho'. I think it could (might) work fine. I'm kind of pvc pipe committed. A friend has a tunnel using abs black plastic. I gotta admit - I advised her against it (but her boyfriend was determined). It worked out fine!! What I was worried about was if the black plastic, in combination with sunlight, would somehow damage the film. Happily, it didn't.
Purlins had to go under those abs plastic pipes. They had galvanized metal pipe and that might have been avoided with something like 1 1/2" pvc, I think - even tho' the structure is about 16' wide.
Shoot! Here I am talking about what fits in budgets instead of imaginations! I blame Thistle'! Ha! I'm just a horribly practical person -- even if my imagination runs away from me sometimes
. If nothing else, the weather prompts this kind of silliness. THERE'S SEVERAL INCHES OF NEW SNOW OUTSIDE MY HOUSE!!!
Deep Breath . . . Ooooooommmmm
Okay, rather than go back and remake the rather spastic images above -- HERE (click) are lots of still pictures of this "sliding house" in Surrey, UK.
Steve
The "relationship" between covering and structure is dynamic. (I really want to put about every 3rd word into quotation marks this morning
.) Anyway, a 30mph wind inside a film covered tunnel is -- chaotic!!I can see how the soft nature of chicken wire would add some cushioning to the film. Any loose wire ends will come right thru it, tho'. I think it could (might) work fine. I'm kind of pvc pipe committed. A friend has a tunnel using abs black plastic. I gotta admit - I advised her against it (but her boyfriend was determined). It worked out fine!! What I was worried about was if the black plastic, in combination with sunlight, would somehow damage the film. Happily, it didn't.
Purlins had to go under those abs plastic pipes. They had galvanized metal pipe and that might have been avoided with something like 1 1/2" pvc, I think - even tho' the structure is about 16' wide.
Shoot! Here I am talking about what fits in budgets instead of imaginations! I blame Thistle'! Ha! I'm just a horribly practical person -- even if my imagination runs away from me sometimes
. If nothing else, the weather prompts this kind of silliness. THERE'S SEVERAL INCHES OF NEW SNOW OUTSIDE MY HOUSE!!!Deep Breath . . . Ooooooommmmm
Okay, rather than go back and remake the rather spastic images above -- HERE (click) are lots of still pictures of this "sliding house" in Surrey, UK
. Steve
