Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Yesterday, I opened up the high tunnel and saw that all the 2x4 rafter supports had fallen over, after the snow had slid off the roof, I needed to use additional 1 1/2" spacers on all of them to get them in place again.  It was interesting to learn that the snow had caused an inch and a half sag in the roof, that is quite a bit more than I was guessing.

The weather forecasters are calling for another storm to roll in later today, with more snow and wind.  I have the rafter bracing up and the doors tied down, so hopefully we won't have the same problems that we encountered earlier this year.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

We have had a little bit of snow over the last 24 hours, so I decided to install some mid span supports under the ridge purlin in the high tunnel.  The first picture is without the 2x4 14' installed.



I didn't go up and measure, but it looked like the snow had drifted to about 18" deep up near the ridge.


This is what our winter test crops look like after a week of temperatures down in the negatives.

Most of the big drift has slid off the roof.