Friday 27th July 2012 Will the weather hold? Most importantly, we need wind speeds of zero mph |
There's a race on this morning. Just a couple of jobs to do in readiness for the cover going on, but experience tells me that those jobs could end up taking a lot longer than expected.
Irrigation fitted. Timber base-rail almost completed. |
The last few jobs were completed at breakneck speed, but the wind was freshening and the sky was clouding over. We had been advised by a friend who works in a large commercial nursery that we would need a large team of helpers and many sets of step ladders to get the cover on. Even the manual, which made everything else sound impossibly easy, warned of opening up a giant sail!
We could end up doing some pretty spectacular kite-surfing!
We had a decision to make. Should we attempt to get the cover on today? We would need to get our team together.
Come early afternoon the sun shone, the wind dropped and our luck, already pushed to the limit, continued to hold. In fact, we could not have picked a better day for the job in hand.
Game on!
We assembled our team of helpers. That's me, Sue and Don!!! We're stubbornly independent, whatever the scale of the task in hand.
First job was to lay out the cover. This would tell us how difficult the job would be. If it blew everywhere, we would abandon the attempt.
Sue tries to protect the Jerusalem Artichokes, but they need a summer trim anyway to stop the stems being snapped in the wind. They need to make way for the cover to be spread out. They'll grow back. |
Warming up nicely in the sun. This will ensure it goes on nice and tight. |
With the base rail option, there is no trench. The bottom of the cover is pulled tight and trapped under battens of wood. The fellow with the braces is my wonderful neighbour, Don. |
As you can see, the cover went on in no time. Here I am just going round putting a few extra nails in. |
The last screw goes in. |
The inside. |
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