I'm trying find cattle panel to make a small hoop house and I can't get Frontier Supply to pick up the phone.

Does anyone know of ~nearby farm supply stores that have cattle panel?

Thank you,

Dan

Dan

What I didn't know then and I know now - how stable the things are - for 1 x 16 ft. length, if you pound in 2 t-posts evenly spaced, it won't move - wobble a bit, sure, but even if the thing it totally covered in tomato vine and in 50 mph wind gusts from a thunderstorm, it won't blow over and won't hurt the plants. I put two together length-wise, so 32 feet, and wire them together and use 4 posts for the whole run.

As well as making arches, green houses, grape trellises, etc.

Assume you know that bolt cutters are the way to go, if you need to whack one in half.

The current plan is: I'm going to make a 6' x 3.5' x 24" high little hoop house made of two layers of greenhouse film (dead air space for insulation) and make a base on hinges (for access). That will be for cabbage and whatever else for season extension, and take the extra and hang some off the trellises, and weave around the garden for peas and beans, and a couple smaller painted pieces for the perennials that flop. So I'm glad I'm on the right track.

:o)

Dan

We've had three full ones up on the back porch, resting on vegas, that has had a huge Concord Grape vine all over them. This past summer, the vine seemingly died, so I cut out all the dead stuff up on the trellises, and put down a shade cloth, and tied the shade cloth onto the panels.

The first wind that came up, the shade cloth acted like a sail, and I had 3 cattle panels banging all around the roof.....

;o)

Dan

Oh and if you do go cattle panels, and cut them, make sure you cut off the extra tab too. My mother's dog ran into one and it looked like she had taken two bullets to the chest. She is fine now, but what a pain it was to keep her from tearing everything open while she was healing.

Billie