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Rural Gardening: Homestead High Tunnel, 1 by Jayryunen

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Jayryunen wrote:
I'm feeling pretty gloomy today; it's windy, gusts over 40 mph, and I'm wondering what form of insanity befell me that I thought I could get a high tunnel up in the spring here. =0( We've got a week of high winds predicted, and then I'm going away for a week.

Here's the next step, which we did last week before the snow. There are four braces, one on each corner. A couple of clamps were slipped onto each of the end rafters before raising them and now one end of a brace is bolted onto each one of those, thus attaching it to the rafter. The rafter needs to be squared with the baseboard before the brace is bolted to the baseboard...