uneven ground for greenhouse?
honeybunny442
17 years ago
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Comments (5)Most of the talk is about the way the Z turns ride. most of the best selling models from, Dixie Chopper, Hustler, eXmark, John Deere, Husqvarna, Kubota etc etc have a solid frame design. Meaning that all four tires are mounted solid to the frame. Such designs can and will put a hurting on your back.. People who over paid for the Z turn they have will swear it is the best riding machine in the world. But not good for uneven ground. They wont tell you why.. Well the truth is the thing will beat you to death when you try to operate it at a speed that it is designed to be operated at. Gravely has a Z260 line of mowers that have a floating front axle that pivots. They do not ride as rough as a solid frame mower. Ferris Z-turns have 4 wheel independent suspension and are the smoothest riding mowers I have been on....See MoreLawn issues (tree roots drying out lawn, uneven ground, grading e
Comments (1)Can you post a couple pictures? The best time to photograph a lawn is when a cloud goes overhead. It would be good to see from far enough away to see the trees and then a close up of the dry spot in the middle. Did you have Marathon in Calabasas before? If not where? And what was your watering regimen (how often and for how long)? Can we assume you are watering this lawn the same way? When were the last two times you fertilized, or have you fertilized yet? Hopefully your close up picture will help someone here to identify your current grass type. Different grasses can be eradicated by different means. Sometimes it's as simple as stopping watering. I'm not sure you will ever be able to apply enough water for those trees. That is a lot of timber to keep moist. The tool which professional landscapers use to prep a garden is a box blade pulled behind a tractor. This is what it looks like in action. The ripper bars you see on the box blade (like a rake sitting above the soil in the blade) can be used to remove most small roots, but there is a limit. When you get ready to get rid of the trees, you might want to consider major stump removal, not grinding, and root removal throughout the rest of the yard. For those two jobs they might bring in a small bulldozer or other heavy equipment....See Moremodifying existing deck rather than installing ground greenhouse?
Comments (1)some ideas come to mind -- 1) "storm screens" framed into existing openings, but made to easily pop out for summer. 2) Handmade poly "windows" -- we already have two that cover an area 2 ft tall by x 13 ft long in the west wall. We took 2x4's and wrapped them with poly so the wood is sandwiched inside. This makes a dead-air space. We folded the corners like gift-wrapping, so it's sealed, but could add stripping to make sure it stays down through winter. So far it's working great to keep the beating sun and high winds off the deck. The boxes are wedged tightly inside the 2x4 framing, and not fastened otherwise. We could caulk around each one to make it more airtight for winter. 3) find old give-away windows of various shapes and sizes and hobo them into place, making sure they are removable to conform to code, and making sure some of them open for air flow. 4) Take very long/wide sheets of thickest poly and fasten one on the outside of the deck frame, and one on the inside, creating a dead-air space between them. This might be our best bet since the entire deck has a small opening between the fiberglass and the top of the window frame area. Even if we put windows into all the openings, this narrow channel would let a lot of cold air in. When it's really sunny, that might not be a bad thing, but otherwise would ruin the plan. In summer this opening lets wind from the West flow across the top, drawing hot air out on the East side. We could use wavy board, fold the inside sheet of poly over it at the top, and fasten it up against the existing fiberglass wavyboard on the inside. All of these ideas would allow us to leave in place the existing fiberglass roofing. Later we could modify the roof if we found it necessary - putting plywood and insulation underneath the fiberglass roof in every other rectangular opening. any thoughts?...See MoreShed Ramp on uneven ground
Comments (5)You could determine the angle to make the ramp by the same principle. Assuming the bottom lip of your deck is flat, the lowest point on your mower is between the two wheels and the ramp will be longer than the wheelbase of your mower you can calculate the angle between the shed and the ramp that will cause the deck to strike. It will basically be an inverse tangent function (also called arctangent). Measure the distance between the two wheels, let's say it is 48". The point where the deck will come closest to the threshold should be at the midpoint between your wheels, 24", assuming the deck lip is the same height from the ground all the way around. Measure the height to your deck from this midpoint, let's say 4". Take the inverse tangent of this ratio, tan(-1)(4/24)=9.46 deg, where tan(-1) is arctangent. Now that tells you the relationship in angles between the two right triangles formed between the deck midpoint, the point on the floor at the midpoint and both wheels. The 9.46 is not your final angle but the angles in relation to the shed floor and ramp. To find the angle from the floor to the ramp you double the arctan angle and subtract from 180. 180-(2)(9.46)= ~161 deg. That would be the angle between the shed floor and ramp. So your formula would be something like 180 - (2)(arctan(y/x)), where y is the height to the lip of the deck at the midpoint and x is half the distance between the front and rear wheel....See Moreagardenstateof_mind
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