Hello, we are Tony Ray & Patty Jones welcome to “Our Backwoods Homestead” in rural North Nashville on 4 acres. We are new to Homesteading and looking forward to raising egg laying chickens to start and a large garden. We plan to add other animals as we grow!
Right now, we have been clearing the back area of the property for our chicken shed/coop and run. We have been interested in Homesteading for 3 years and reaching out to other Homesteaders to learn and expand our knowledge and this lifestyle.
We have always lived a simple life from the day we got married in 2005, we purchased the small house on 4 acres and have remodeled the entire house to fit our needs. We are working our way to a more self-sufficient and sustainable lifestyle especially in the times we are living in.
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Yes still holding up no problems at all. I will do a follow up video soon just been too busy with my business right now. Still the same plastic as well.
@@OurBackwoodsHomestead Thanks so much for the replay. I just put up a similar 10x28 greenhouse with the same style plastic and poles. I was really worried I was wasting my time beefing this thing up. Thanks for putting my mind at ease. Have a great week.
Hi, great video, I seen someone else who instead of tying outside straps diagonal, they placed the straps going straight up and over in the middle of each window/section, saved him tying up any window as the strap held it.👍👊
Hello I used these in the link real easy and neat to hold down the hardware cloth. www.lowes.com/pd/Teks-8-x-3-4-in-Phillips-Drive-Sheet-Metal-Screws-200-Count/3316518
Hello! Its still holding up great! I plan on doing a follow up video after this weather gets a little cooler. No damage at all its been through many storms we are amazed at how well its held up! Thank you!
A good place to find old cast iron is at your local scrap yard. I found a 10" chicken fryer and 2 10" skillets and a 10" lodge lid and I only paid 6.00 dollars for all of it. .30 cents a pound Good luck
Yeah sure is I find them all over people send them to me as well I restore cast iron. That's a good pan those Chicken Fryers I have 3 of them. Thanks for your comment! I have a page on FB called Backwoods Cast Iron Pickin check it out. facebook.com/castironpickin
This is what I have :We already had some wood for bracing, screws, rebar and weed-block. We had to buy the 4 1x6x10s for the base framing. You can watch the videos and get all the other info for bracing and how we did it. Good luck with your greenhouse let us know how it turned out.
@@OurBackwoodsHomestead Thank you very much!! I did watch all the videos, We are in Zone 2 so we will put it up next year but will definitely collect all the materials and build the based.
If you mean my Chicken coop? its 10x10 my chicken run area is 12 x 24 ft long & 8 ft high. That gives them plenty of room to run around and get sun during the daylight hours.
The tarp is just to keep the rain out of the run when the chickens are outside. It's a plastic tarp, they will stay up under it when the weather is bad, but most of the time they go into the coop.
You mean the coop door for the chickens to enter & go out? If so about 12" wide and 18" to 24 inches tall. Also you can look at chicken automatic doors they have certain measurements.
@OurBackwoodsHomestead I had too I live in Oklahoma and we get 80 mile an hour straight line winds that come with no warning my greenhouse has survived a few of them already its only because of the J hooks
Is it still holding up? I'm thinking of building a greenhouse out of cattle panels. It would be cheaper to buy one of these but I have a bad feeling about them being a waste of money!
Ours just went through a bad storm here in Nashville and its still standing no damage at all. We will at sometime do a follow up videos on the Greenhouse. Its been through many storms since we put it up and has helded up due to the reinforcing we did in the video. Thanks for your comment!
