Holy smokes! Just came upon your amazing channel and am in the middle of doing something very similar, and im seriously gonna use a lot of your wonderful design. Thank you for sharing, and as always, keep building 👍
@ToddLarsen. Thank you for your comment and welcome to the channel. We are so ready to get this greenhouse functional. We have lots of snow here in SW Montana so hoping for an early spring...which means May in my neck of the woods. Cheers J&K
@ToddLarsen. Just joined your channel. We will be counter sharing our knowledge. We believe that decentralized farming is the answer to healthy living, conservation and food shortage.
@fireprobie591 Thank you for your comment. There are a number of suppliers out there but availability is the issue. Many of our kits were purchased before the supply shortages today. However, we did run into some issues with supply and canceled shipments for kits ordered in 2021, so we purchased from various suppliers. If you are in the US, there is more availability from Earth-Wall Products out of Smyrna, Georgia. This supplier provides twisted wire gabion baskets which I believe offer more flexibility with support over the tap wire welded cage kits we ordered. (Wish we had gone with twisted wire to save on all the additional tap welding we did ourselves to achieve more structural support). Another benefit to Earth-Wall Products is that they have a structural engineer on staff that can provide guidance for your design. Another tip for resources in your area and one specifically applicable to you since you are doing landscaping, is to talk to large landscapers or fencers. Gabion baskets are traditionally used in landscaping and fencing. These businesses should be able to give you some leads. If you buy from big box stores or big internet suppliers (ie. Amazon, Wayfair) , just make sure you are getting rust resistant, galvanized metal that is at least 9 or 11 gauge wire. If you wire cage is made of twisted wire, instead of tap welded, you will pay more. Cheers, J&K
Thank you for your comment. The cages have a rust resistance coating. The gauge is 9. "Gabions are designed to be used in permanent structures but their longevity is directly related to the environment they are installed in. This means life expectancy of gabion walls can be anywhere from 10 to 75 years depending on the install environment." If the cages start to rust, we will spray with a PVC coating. As we don't have a roof on the structure yet, some of these cages have been exposed to environment of snow, rain and ice and no rusting yet.
