Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar1d ago

Next job: Removing the concrete pylons that formed a foundation for a greenhouse that must've collapsed some time ago.

We want our kitchen garden in that area (the soil is great), but a bit further from the big spruce as its roots compete with anything we tried to grow there last year.

The huge concrete beam is a little on the heavy side for my machines. You can see the excavator at tipping point there, but just about lifting it and I did wheelies on the tractor but managed to drag it out the back gate with some tricks.

One more to go.

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Show threadskua

@yngmar

That frame that you dismantled.
Would it have worked for running on top of two parallel concrete beams and flattening off the soil between between them?

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Show threadY⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar1d ago

@skua Hah, you're far more clever than the previous owners for sure 😆

But no, it wasn't that wide. Plus there was a greenhouse on top of these beams until a few years ago, we have the scrap metal frame and a huge wooden chest in the barn full of most of its glass panels, which they saved and packed in there nicely.

Perhaps one day we will turn it into a greenhouse again. But a sunken one and not in this location. And definitely not this summer :)

Show threadskua1d ago
@yngmar
A sunken greenhouse - oooo - that's an interesting idea.
Show threadY⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar1d ago

@skua They're perfect for this climate. For a month now we had sun and warmth daytime but still frost at night. Using soil to store the heat would extend our growing season a month on either side.

And since we have the digger...

Show threadskua1d ago
@yngmar
Being pessimistic at times I'm going to ask, " How high does the water-table get?"
Show threadmcSlibinas1d ago
@skua @yngmar from 1 meter deep till 24 meters. My grandpa's house has 22 meter deep well, under my yard water table is 1-2 meter deep.
Show threadY⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar1d ago

@skua About 5-8m at the top of the hill. This is an important factor when property searching.

But I'm eyeballing the hillside for it, which will enable an easy gravity drain for any flooding during rain/melt, as the downside of underground greenhouses is they're a hole in the ground that could fill with water. Drain pipe down the side of the hill solves that.

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