You did a nice job building your trellis. If you don't mind me stating some things I learned from experience. Your horizonal arms will be considerably stronger if you had put them on the outside and will be less likely to warp. Contrary to popular belief wire stretches an enormous amount, especially under load. Invest in some turnbuckles and/or eye bolts that can be tightened. If you already know that you will need a third post then set it now instead of fighting wires, canes, taking canes off wires, trying to line up post with plants in the way, and possibly stepping on plants.
Michael Hartman - I agree that he has does an excellent job here! I also want to thank you for your comments, they all seem very reasonable and useful to my mind. Putting the 'arms' on the outside I assume means the tension of the wire pulls the arms into, rather than away from, the posts. Hence adding strength? That just seems like good practice in any such undertaking. The point of adding in the extra post now seems on the mark - time and cost allowing, I think I would rather not fight pre-grown prickly canes. As to putting in tensioners to allow making the wire tauter in the future, I agree. Wires can lose an awful lot of tension over time, and doing so means you have the option of re-purposing the frame to heavier crops/plants (such as grapes?)...Thank you the poster and yourself, and greetings from Yorkshire, England!
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Beautiful! On a farm that would be overkill but for a residential garden it does the job and is very aesthetically pleasing for visitors to enjoy. I was looking at metal T-posts and wire or fence for my try at raspberries and blackberries (in addition to my regular tomatoes & peppers) but I may copy your design. In the past I constructed a pergola over part of my deck which has become one of the backyard's main highlights with an evening light string, wind chimes, hanging basket planters, etc. Your design would complement that. Great job!
looks great! save on hardware cost by drilling a hole through the end post arms and wrapping wire on back side or running a continuous wire woven through all arms. add a simple strut in the middle with a couple of pieces of wood with notches on opposite sides to support middle of run or move closer to one plant or another when needed. store inside during winter. if you have kids, watch them climb the crosses too! LOL! thank you for sharing!
3:35 just a side note for if you ever do that kind of cut again, its much easier to just do 3 cuts straight down each line and 2 on a 45 degree angle from the middle to the outside lines so you end up with a point in the middle and you should just be able to break the remaining 2 pieces off by pushing them with your hand or tapping them lightly with a hammer, then just clean it up with a chisel.
Thanks for the video! Just finished mine using your design. Mine is on a slope, so it's not level. I also only notched into the arms and left the posts whole.
In the main compilation video I go into how this is handled. Just prune the floricanes to be closer to the front, and if necessary zip-tie them to the front trellis wire so they stay up there. For primocane fruiters, they are usually pretty tall and they generally grow towards the sun, so this wall faces south so not much issue there either. But you know, ideally it's better to have the plants be accessible on both sides if possible. That's not possible for me, so just working with what I got. Also, primocane fruiters generally produce fruit near the top of the cane, so accessing fruit isn't as challenging as one might think.
I have a 12 foot long by 2 foot wide raseberry bed with 8 plants. I was just going to use 6 T-Bars (4 at the ends and 2 in the middle) and run some wires through them. Does anyone think this will work?
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Let me do the math here. A 8 foot pole placed in the earth 48 inches leaves me with a 4 foot tall trellis. Why do yours look taller than 4 feet. Hmmmm.
*Thanks for the well-presented and researched video. Much appreciated. Here's one for you ( **deam.design/ve9j** ): All other things being equal, should a lean-to shed across the back of a bungalow be considered an out-building, or an extension? It also seems that if I build a small wooden shed and bolt it to the house wall that planning may be required i.e. it becomes an extension made of combustible material! Thoughts?*
Pierre Gosselin there are ways of curing that. Maybe run the wire through the cross completely and attach it to the bottom of the center post. Then the force is pulling down rather than inward.
