hey everyone my name is Sam and I'm Angela and we're Green Acre homestead
welcome back to the beginning of a new project so what is our new big project
our new big project is one that we've been talking about ever since well
before we moved here but it seems like every year that we do gardening out here
on our homestead we've talked about boy wouldn't it be nice to do this and we
just never got around to it well finally on I think you're number five we are
finally getting around to it and that is a greenhouse a greenhouse so why are we
finally getting around to doing a greenhouse it's a really good question
it's probably something maybe some of you were also wondering especially in
light of one of our latest videos where I was in my office kind of the raw vlog
talking to the camera thing and I said that I didn't want to spend our money on
the deck well this project spend the money for this project is something that
will pay us back year after year and hopefully we will be able to do
gardening food production year-round so in that sense it's justifiable so we did
look at some of the prefab options that you can buy online stuff from Harbor
Freight some of the ones that you can get off Amazon or from Lowe's Home Depot
yep hoop houses to caterpillar tunnels I think we've researched for a good what
week solid at least interesting looked in the past as well interesting to the
max that's how you do research so after doing that we come to the conclusion
that we didn't think that the Harbor Freight ones would be sturdy enough for
what we need and upon our heal where it does get high winds and it's in the Sun
all day from start to finish yeah and so we didn't think it would hold up and
anything that wasn't Harbor Freight was like really expensive and when we know
we can build it ourselves we didn't want to have to put out the money for it
right the things that were more in our budget or to small commercially
available ones that were in our budget were way too small we are going to build
one that is 12 feet wide 16 feet long eight-foot sidewalls and about a 12-foot
peak wow we're going big because we're home go big or go home where you're
already home it's my little baby so as far as the style I really like well he
does too but you know it's what I really want
yeah Biltmore Estate if you guys have seen the Biltmore Estate that's what she
wants that's what she really well Victorian I like it too is a wooden
frame and a gable style you know at the peak peak roof yep and that is not
usually what he builds he likes the shed roof which is just the one slant yes and
I like that because it's easy to build there's cheap raw materials and it's
just easier to do but in this instance we'll go with something prettier because
it's not gonna be that much more expensive of materials
so if you watched our garden videos from last year this is pretty much the
entrance to the garden we did take down the fence on the outside and we've
already taken out two of the beds because this is actually where the
greenhouse is going so the reason we chose this area is it gets the most Sun
we were going to do it on the outside of our garden so we didn't have to remove
anything except for the strawberry beds but there are some trees right here that
shade it too much during the day so half of the greenhouse would be in the shade
which kind of defeats the purpose so we decided to move it this way a little bit
and it has no trees all the way around it
enough that it's going to get full sign all day which is what it needs
the first step in this project is digging and setting posts in the ground
but for that we're going to use our new tool what we have here is an earthquake
named brand one person gas-powered auger
right out of the box this looks like it should be very easy to assemble because
you only have three parts you've got the engine auger head
assembly you've got the auger bit and then you've got this I think it's a hole
starter forget what they call it maybe fishtail but this goes on the end of the
auger so kudos to earthquake for making this easy to install and assemble it's
also pretty lightweight I mean this might be maybe 35 pounds it's not as
heavy as Isaac so you know you relate it to how heavy your kids are I guess all
right I'm gonna set this over here on the seat I want the bust up the plastic
with the four-wheeler rack
stay stay so we've got a single bolt here with a lock nut okay so I want to
be a good example before I start let me actually look at the instruction manual
and make sure that there's no weird steps that I don't realize so this thing
has one page of instructions six steps total that's my kind of assembly
basically you put this together on the engine put the bolt through and then you
attach the fishtail assembly on the bottom of the augur well then double
check all of these factory fasteners to make sure they're good here's the
fishtail it just threads right into the bottom of the auger that's nice
that way you don't lose your gas cap as far as two cycle engines go this looks
like it has a huge gas tank which is awesome you don't want to run out of gas
while you're just digging up the world this is a 43 cc engine so there you go
smaller than a liquor cycle I guess or scooter alright it is filled up with
fuel now I'm going to press the primer bulb here about five or six times until
it fills up I'm kind of getting close
all right there we go I did it ten times however long it takes to turn the switch
here on the side to on then move the lever down to choke all the way down and
pull it until it turns over
and let it warm up for a minute
I'm gonna let it run for a little while since is the first time it's been
started that way the oil and gas mixture can kind of get through the system it
kind of gets warmed up a little bit and to make the Pistons to the cylinders
type thing so see you guys a little bit first thing to do is to lay out our
lines with string and wooden stakes to mark the perimeter and get a square
foundation for our greenhouse what I'm doing first is the easiest one which is
this long run that's going to parallel the existing garden bed over here to the
left it's going to be exactly three feet off from that I've already driven a
stake down there with the string attached to it at 3 feet I'm coming down
here beyond where the greenhouse is going to be and I'm going to do the
exact same thing wrap a stringer on this stake and have Angela measure off that
corner of the bed there to where it's 3 feet and then I'll drive it in the
ground we have our long string done next thing we're going to do is this little
run here we're going to space the greenhouse two feet off from this garden
bed to give us enough of a walkway but not waste space up here in the garden so
I'm going to measure from this planter bed over 2 feet and put a mark on the
string with this marker now I'm going to take the string wrap it around the stake
put it about here and run it out that way
all right what I've done here has made a little H brace this is going to allow us
to move this string as we need to to give us a 90-degree corner down there at
the end that's the hardest part it is I've always struggled with string
layouts and foundation markings and I hate it I don't know if there's an
easier way to do it with just a couple of people but it took both of us
measuring with a three four five method to get the line square and Alijah moving
it so I don't know maybe there's an easier way if there is I didn't come up
with it with tools and stuff we had on hand so with all of the projects that
we've built this has been the easiest to in there measuring you don't ever say
that we've only started that's it we're Jing now with the measure we are totally
jinxed our method for squaring up the corners was what's called a three four
five method it's where you measure on one string three feet put a mark measure
out the other string four feet put a mark and then you measure those two
marks and it should be five feet that's how you get them square the perimeter
string is done now we need to go through and measure and Mark for each of our
post holes location two then drill them out with the augur
I am so glad we have this auger because I would hate to have to dig as many
holes as we're about to drill by hand we've done it in the past we've we've
done a lot of postal yeah so you know we're not total wimps we're just gonna
do the better match this time yep yep and for those ok so here's another just
here's the disclaimer for those wondering why we bought an auger for a
green house when we previously said we weren't going to spend a lot of money we
actually had this for a while we were got this in preparation to do in the
deck since the deck is not going to happen right now and we already had it
we figured why not use it here well yeah yeah well yeah can't let it
rust away in the box that's right I'll put the rest in the box
well yeah but alright let's go ahead and put marks on our strings for I think 20
posts I think is what I got in the head every 4 foot spacing so we'll go to
market and get digging alright muscle has arrived in the form
of Angela's brother and we've got all of our marks on our lines there's a total
of 18 posts corn in the ground which sounds ludicrous but I build ludicrously
it'll make sense beefing beef and Angela says from way
back there alright let's go ahead and fire up the auger and put some holes in
the earth
that took under three minutes that makes quick work it's not super
easy at Han - it does use some muscle but a lot easier than digging in my hand
for sure fo sho
this is nice well worth the money investment and this
really wasn't in that cheat or that expensive truly wasn't in that cheap
this really wasn't that expensive and well worth it probably not if you're
only doing one project like this but knowing that we're gonna do this plus
we've got some retainer walls a deck someday well worth it
we are done and that is largely and thanks to you
yes Thank You Austin definitely I told him earlier that if it was just me and
Angela 1 we would have been fighting a lot sooner probably yes we do argue we
just use it open on camera and 2 we probably got half way and I would say
that's it I'm done I don't care just corrupt the concrete the goal was to get
all that's done today because it's gonna be raining tomorrow so yeah again why
here well how did you like the auger the
auger was great that was probably the most fun of this whole project doing the
name - yeah doing the lines wasn't fun doing the concrete was not fun at all
but the auger was a lot of fun what do you think
I can't wait to rent her a black a pecker over here uh he says more tool
more power tools well we appreciate you guys watching for part one of the green
house build stick around this will be a multi-part series but we hope to get
this built in let's say the next week and a half two weeks max awesome so yes
two weeks you should be done alright we'll see you guys next time
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