How to Build A Hoop House - Part 1

[@shuibahmed2182]

Best greenhouse video so ever.

[@MickGrewcock]

For heaven's sake Jim. Until 15 minutes and 47 seconds ago I didn't know what a hoop house was. Now I want one. First bees, now a hoop house. I need a small farm. Great video!

[@vinofarm]

It's an unheated greenhouse! You might call them high tunnels over there. If I put a heat source in here, I could call it a "greenhouse" but since it's only solar powered, it's a "hoophouse." They're definitely nice to have around!

[@MickGrewcock]

We call similar structures polytunnels here, though they are often temporary, moveable structures rather than the semi-permanent appearance of yours. They are frequently used for forcing early tomatoes etc. There are acres and acres of them in southern Spain from which comes the UK's early spring salad veg. Looking forward to seeing the produce from your hoop house. Best to all for the spring.

[@BrenHaas]

Me too!!!🎉

[@dgb5820]

You have made one of the best instructional videos I have ever seen, your tips and refined attention to detail is absolutely amazing

[@dr.suzettelyn6839]

one of the best videos about building hoop houses

[@raincoast9010]

Yes, i agree!

[@douxancolie]

What I like the most, this is for a single-person assemble instructions. That'd be me. I checked my farming area, no hoops or materials to build my own. I did see a pipe/pole bender; may go back and get it. I need a scaled down version too, for my residential backyard. My eyes are always bigger for what I want, then what I have room. I love the trickery and humor with the (reverse) instruction process; pretty awesome dude! You Rock!

[@soopaman9271]

your squaring demo was spot on and easy to understand. nice work!

[@crazy808ish]

That measurement trick to figure out a perfect rectangle is ingenious. Thank you!

[@vinofarm]

Pythagoras had it right 2500 years ago!

[@Shane-ol1jo]

The most detailed video I have ever seen about hoop house! Wow

[@brianwhitley1053]

LOVED the video. I especially liked that your assistant was wearing the appropriate safety gear and hi-vis vest!!!

[@RayBecker]

Great, great video. Well done. This should have hundreds of thousands of views.

[@courtneyrae221]

I agree! On point

[@alexnau86]

Great videos. I watched yours yesterday and you inspired me to search for a used house. Found a 30x75 posted for $1000. Just checked it out and bought it today. Thanks for the information. You saved me a ton of $$$

[@vinofarm]

Shoreboy That is awesome! 75x30 for $1000 is amazing. Where was it?

[@alexnau86]

Vino Farm it’s in Laurel Delaware about a hour and a half from my house. We went down to look at it and the frame was in great shape. It came with a fan two vents side skirts a new roll of plastic and the even offered to take it down for me. I couldn’t pass it up.

[@vinofarm]

Shoreboy Shoreboy That’s a great deal. I recommend you be there to help take it down. It will really help to know where everything goes when you’re putting it back together! Glad this video helped!

[@videocompilationvarieties739]

Like DGB said this is by far the best instructional video on how to build a hoop-house thank you so much, I am looking forward this spring to build mine LOL.Thanks so much!

[@taffythegreat1986]

I actually learnt something today. I never understood what the hypotenuse was until now. Cheers for that. In the past if I wanted to mark out a rectangle. I would peg out the four corners, then measure diagonal

[@vinofarm]

I never quite understood the fuss about math until I started laying out garden beds and hoophouses. The hypotenuse calculator is awesome!

[@FensterfarmGreenhouse]

Center purlin on every house I’ve built goes outside as you stated on each arch except for the end walls. It should go inside the hoop of the end wall so that the wire channel fits on most houses or plastic seals tight when stretched if using batten boards on others without a pressure point like that would make on the outside of the end arch. Other than that, this is one of the best examples for building houses on you tube! Well done my friend! Chuck

[@vinofarm]

This is a great tip! Next time I build a hoophouse, I will definitely put the ends of the center purlin on the inside. Thanks for watching.

[@user-pt1kj5uw3b]

The breakdown on the cardboard was going the extra mile great video

[@vinofarm]

Glad you liked it! Easier than trying to explain that in the field.

[@hartfordboothe7466]

Thank you for taking the time and effort to make and post this video. Very nice discussion of how to square up the layout. Very nice editing, too; impressive reversal of the video in places. Good tip on checking craigslist. All nicely done.

[@darrellblair5818]

What an excellent and informative video. Narration was sincere, honest, and clear. Thanks young man.

[@vinofarm]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LazarickHomestead]

Massachusetts people too!!! We're building a cattle panel greenhouse right now and just found your channel!!! LOVE it!!!

[@SuperLetout]

You are a great teacher

[@Johnny_Benson]

THANK YOU!! for teaching me the squaring of the house. I have wondered how to do that for years.

[@vinofarm]

If you notice anything tricky about this video, give it a thumbs up. This was harder than it looks. 👍

[@markoverman9628]

I had to rewind three times to see it! Very good! I won't give it away!!

[@Magnetul]

Are you talking about how it looks like that you're constantly using "The Force" to put this togeather?

[@douglasfuentes2737]

It was fifty feet long, but how wide?

[@MrBobberino01]

How do you use your bees to pollinate in the hoop house?

[@marshallbaires]

I was like no way. Lol... The force is strong with your throwing techniques.

[@zaheermahmood8380]

Excellent work shown by you keep it up. Appreciated from Pakistan

[@GetMeThere1]

Very good video -- just the right amount of talking and doing. Easy to absorb, with sufficient information. Thanks for posting!

[@zelalemeshetu325]

It's amazing! You are so talented! Thank you!

[@jschmied73]

Love how you can just hammer those into the ground. Where I live I'd get about 2 inches in before hitting football sized stones.

[@vinofarm]

Ha! Watch the video closely. The posts didn't actually go in that easily the first time!

[@isabellamerrigan8074]

My house property was a pottery dump a long time ago (I live in Ohio) and the people that dumped the pottery decided it wasn’t enough and when I tried to dig to plant a tree I found a whole cinderblock

[@stoneblobfish]

@@isabellamerrigan8074 relatable, i have found so many bricks and cinderblocks i could make a castle

[@RetreatfarmFarmvilleVirginia]

I Have 8 32 foot long by 15 foot wide hoop houses made from free scrapyard found "Rhino" brand carport kits that someone threw the whole thing away because the first end frame became damaged from someone running into it with a car or snowplow etc. and i bought cheap 10 foot long 3/4 inch electrical conduit (steel) to add additional wind bracing and i bought bags of concrete to fill 5 gallon buckets to make anchors every 8 feet. Other than that i bought the greenhouse film and attachment parts and got a good start for under $250.

[@chantalgardner3157]

Absolutely beautiful job! Editing and tutorial were excellent. 👏

[@uncodedlife]

My goodness, you made it look simple putting the top beam in. Well done, great vid!

[@john4x532]

Almost looked like it was played in reverse. As in him taking it down and paying backwards

[@mesleyraves9983]

Thank you for this video. First time farmer here.

[@ShantiTrish]

Thank you lovely that the younge person was able to pRticipTe best way of learning hands on experience at a early age 🙏😘excellent video .

[@vickyaher2914]

A VERY GOOD JOB DONE

[@kickpublishing]

Nice to see one proper built. Trouble with the plastic pipe hoop houses is if there's a heavy snow or a strong storm your $1000 and time could be wasted.

[@badWithComputer]

To get a nice right angle you can use a 3 4 5 triangle (or multiple of). Measure 3ft one way and then 4ft another, between those two points should be 5ft, also works for metres.

[@vinofarm]

Yes, that's the same thing as the hypotenuse calculator. It's difficult to keep things square with 3/4/5 on a 50 or 100 foot scale. You could do 6/8/10 or 12/16/20, but at that point, I prefer to just get a specific hypotenuse and be exact. Especially with google right in my pocket.

[@stevecaswell]

Even though I know the Pythagorian theorem there is another way that is easy. I've been in home building construction 38+ years. One way we used was 3 + 4 = 5 or any combination of that works. What does that mean? Measure along one site from the corner and put a mark at 3 feet. Measure the other side from the same corner and put a mark at 4 feet. Then measure diagonally across to each points, it will be 5 feet if it is square. Likewise, you can do 6 + 8 = 10 or 9 + 12 = 15 etc.

[@Maximusrex4575]

Thanks for another informative and fun video!

[@stevehappe8583]

Yes. It was very informative. I did not know that they need a special type of covering. And aside from using extra capacity measuring tape and Pythagoras, once again he made it look easy

[@enriquegonzalez7058]

Wow are you teacher ? I hope so you are great!!!!! Thanks!! Great video!!!

[@cbriangilbert1978]

someone buy this man a post driver! You my friend are a hard worker!

[@oby-1607]

Loved the drone shot when you were bringing in the ribs. Nice video.

[@vinofarm]

Thanks. This one was fun to make.

[@jboy4023]

It’s a beauty!

[@arfaabbas]

Beautiful Good infarmation

[@courtneyrae221]

This how to video is 🔥 🤙 super clear and thorough! Love it!

[@BlackJesus8463]

nice shot!

[@plant-basedcallerys998]

This is a great video that will really help us when we install ours! Thank you!

[@ben-fe3zy]

My two favorite subjects: maths and gardening. In one video!

[@Rosefreitas26]

Amazing 👏👏👏👏

[@jerryolivermason6760]

Thank you for making such a great video for us. SO HELPFUL, brother!

[@oldporkchops]

At 0:56, I see some drip tube too that came with the repurposed hoop house. What a deal!

[@Quickunforgivable]

Thinking about to start planting chillies and looking for some greenhouse but this hoophouse idea is awesome, thank you man

[@akamjo1]

It was excellent and very useful, thank you

[@vinofarm]

You are welcome!

[@turgsh01]

Have you ever considered making an underground greenhouse? Having only the roof above ground, you're able to grow all year round as the temperatures inside don't change too much (so long as the roof is double or triple layered).

[@vinofarm]

Yes, We've considered it. However, excavation is a huge job up here with our bouldery, rocky land. I actually have enough material to build over 300 feet of hoop house, so maybe we'll experiment someday.

[@rodellgordon7235]

Thank you. Just what I needed to see. I wish you Peace Always

[@BrianStocking]

Good video. At 12:26, you can just use a self drilling screw and you will achieve the same result. No drilling through, or bolts, washers, and nuts. I like how easy you got the first purlin on 😉.

[@vinofarm]

The bolts give me peace of mind, but yes, self tappers might be sufficient. I have had my other hoop house lift right out of the ground posts before I learned to bolt them down. Wind is powerful.

[@sesa005]

Very nice want more details about in costal sea aera in havy wind it will be protect howand whT is the temprater in Nd out side same modle can be use has a poly dryer can we construction by own

[@fotonmom]

Hi 👋 we have laid out plot for our house- I noticed the end hoop is a bit more reinforced looking… could you explain the materials please

[@munirmir4168]

Highly praised the way u explained, wounderful piece of information, u r really excellent.

[@Pinguim35]

Vino, can you answer me if these galvanized tubes last long directly on earth? Thanks

[@vinofarm]

I got these used 14 years ago and they are still fine. The previous owner had used them for over 10 years. They last.

[@Pinguim35]

@@vinofarm thanks for the answer

[@lesliee5938]

Love it. ❤️

[@MrTchougo]

Very nice. I plan to use these instructions and build mine

[@HsingSun]

Thank you for the video. I have been watched many Greenhouse videos. But I cannot use clear plastics due to many squirrels in my areas.

[@crazyrees23]

Will a trampoline frame fit inside those ground posts? Those stove bolt screws stick out. Will they rip plastic? Did you use those same screws on the perlin?

[@vinofarm]

The stove bolts face inwards. The tops are rounded. No problem on the plastic.

[@DimazPR]

you had me at pitagorean . i will be coming back for tips when i build my first one in the next year or so. #lifegoals

[@bustersmith5569]

Boy you took the long way.!!!!!!

[@rosesmith6208]

can you buy metal poles already bent as a hoop? whre would one find them, besides criages list? can you buy straight poles and bend them yourself without special tool?

[@schydrogardner4815]

You can buy a hoop bender online. Look up bootstrap farmer online. They are between $50 and $80 on Amazon.

[@simopr09]

You are really shifting gears sir!

[@therevelation19]

The older i get, the more I love Pythagoras.

[@michaelkuhn3488]

an easier way to find the corner angle is the 3-4-5 method. where one of the right angles is 3 ft. another is 4 ft. and when the diagonal measures exactly 5 ft you have a perfect right angle. this can be in inches or ft we in the construction have been using this method for many years

[@vinofarm]

Yes, 3-4-5 is great for checking if something is square. But try standing in the middle of a field and laying out a 17x50' rectangle. How are you going to do it with 3-4-5? Start in one corner, measure out a 90º angle. Great... How do you line up the other 90º corner 50' away? Even if you did manage to make 4 separate 90º corners line up with each other and form a 17x50 rectangle, how do you confirm they're actually square? You take a diagonal measurement.... that's the hypotenuse. It's all you needed in the first place. It takes one person about 2 minutes with two long tape measures.

[@joshuamoore24_7]

I have an idea of a drip watering system in each greenhouse, and the main feed piped in from a building with water lines and before the line to the greenhouses a whole house filter or several and sprinkler timers.

[@blackrocks8413]

All of your vids have aged pretty well. Not all on YT do.

[@capitaldd3693]

Great video, thanks for posting. Do you leave the plastic on aĺl year, or just growing season..? Thanks

[@vinofarm]

Going into it's 13th New England winter this year. It stays on year round. But you have to use the "4-Year Greenhouse plastic". Home Depot 6-mil plastic will not last a season.

[@capitaldd3693]

Sounds fair. A worthwhile investment for sure. That is for the response & info. 🥃👍

[@chandikacnet]

Great job 👍 bro

[@oldtimeengineer26]

yes it is very hard to put them up by yourself well done sir

[@joeyhardin1288]

Am looking into building a hoop house and your video came up. Think I will sub, bell and like. I think I will stick around and see what you have going on. Some will fork for me some may not, I am in Central Kentucky, Go Cats. But after watching your intro and you fixing the termite problem, you are a hard worker and I like that. See you around.

[@PinoyFarmBoy]

This is great and cheap! I will consider this in creating my farm! Thanks!

[@MrTeenwolf82]

I just wanted to say thank you so much Vino Farm i have learned a lots just from watching your video. We are residing in Mesa and San Tan Valley in Arizona and been wanting to have my own garden and green house by watching you i am sure will build one when we more to Carthage or Pine hurt North Carolina. You have show me where to find the cheap material but, can you please tell me how you do it all by yourself getting the plastic over the Hoop house and that is pretty amazing and where do you get plastic and what type of Ply plastic ? Thank you in advance Phil

[@vinofarm]

Google: "greenhouse plastic roll 4-year" There are many places that sell it. We have a farm supply business near us and I can go pick it up. Most online places will ship it. Just make sure you're buying real greenhouse plastic with UV protection. The stuff you get at home depot will disintegrate in a year. The "4-year" plastic we put on your hoophouse in 2009 is in it's 12th year and still holding up fine after 11 New England winters.

[@TheOleHermit]

"Just have to toss it up there." Rewind & slo-mo playback. LMAO!

[@akselschmidt501]

I came here just looking for this comment lol

[@tacticalant3841]

The Hermit - it took me a minute, i knew something was fishy, well done!

[@hmongadventures8106]

Very done and explained, where did you buy all the pipe from?

[@GeorgeVeld]

3:4:5 or 6:8:10 Or 12:16:20 works best for Squaring up buildings. and it works in inches feet centimetre meter mile km etc

[@vinofarm]

Yes, but it doesn't work for a blank field. You can make a square corner, but then you need to make three more relative to the first. There's nothing quicker than two tape measures and a hypotenuse!

[@GeorgeVeld]

@@vinofarm Sure it dose when I build greenhouses pole barns foundations we always start with a blank Field. Start with 1 where you want the building to start 2 parallel to existing buildings or drives/ roads 3rd Square off of that for your third point. Now you are in the exact location, parallel to everything else and your new building is square. the next 2 walls can be drawn parallel off the first 2 square walls I have been doing it like this for over 40 years and it is by far the fastest most precise way to Square up a building the 4 5 6 or 40 50 60 or 80 100 120 rule is the best way and you only need 1 guy to do it

[@vinofarm]

@@GeorgeVeld I don’t want to get into an argument, but how many measurements do you make when laying out the 3/4/5 method? Like, how many times do you pull the tape out? Seems like several measurements per corner and then a lot of measurements to make things parallel. And that’s not taking into account extra measurements if the hoophouse is 17x48 like mine. (Not an even 3/4/5). After typing the equation into Google and getting the hypotenuse, I need to make three measurements to create a perfect rectangle of ANY dimension. It requires walking the width twice and the length once. For a 17x48 footprint, it takes about 3 minutes. I’d be happy to have a race anytime!

[@GeorgeVeld]

@@vinofarm I have layed out the foundation for 100 by 400' barns in less than 30 min using the 3 4 5 method You claim to multiple measurements and the squaring up several times is absurd. 2 corners for the 345 method 2 measurements for parallel and I can lay out that foundation with in 1/4" and 1/4" over 400' is well within tolerance for a triple deck chicken barn with plywood top floors where if you are not spot on the shit job of cutting 2500 sheets of plywood is in your not so distant future

[@georgegoertzen4723]

You can also just use the '3, 4 and 5' rule. Locate where you want one corner to be and put a peg in. Then you can use a piece of lumber or a string tied on it to measure 4 feet from that corner down the length of the greenhouse.. Measure 3 feet along the width of the greenhouse and put a peg in to mark it but this one will need lumber or string to measure 5 feet - use this to locate exactly where the 4 foot mark along the length should be. You will get perfect right angles every time and the distances are not so difficult to work with, nor do you need to do complicated mathematical calculations on the job.

[@vinofarm]

The 3,4,5 rule is super impractical standing in a dirt field laying out a 50 or 100 foot rectangle. Typing your length and width into the google calculator will spit out the EXACT diagonal measurement instantly. No complicated math or fussing with lumber, etc. Just two tape measures and you could even ask Siri.

[@juliananava5784]

keep up the good content!

[@scompon2642]

well, I learned a lot just watching this video thanks !!!!

[@kennabrongersma6016]

Amazing!!!!

[@clintonwhite9816]

I LOVED IT

[@jcbbe]

Thanks Buddy, great video well done

[@zulfawdiamond5409]

I love your hoop house and would like to build the same thing for my hydroponic system. Pls did you buy the pvc pipes bind or bind them yourself

[@vinofarm]

Explained in the very first minute of the video.

[@AIM54A]

An M67 immersion barrel heater in a tank of water makes a great greenhouse heater. Burns up waste oil or almost any flammable liquid. The can be a little scary to light though..

[@Gideon_Judges6]

Crazy how many hoop house vids are in Massachusetts. Like 5 in a row for me. I guess we need them here more than in the south, so it makes sense. 🤷‍♂️

[@GardensforLife]

Great video! Thanks for making it!

[@Pitomnik1Ru]

Hi! Thx for the video. What about snow? Does it resist in enough?

[@vinofarm]

I have another one like this with 4 foot spacing between hoops and it's 11 years old with no damage. The snow definitely sags the plastic down between the hoops, but no tearing problems in all that time. This one has the hoops only 3 feet apart to support the plastic a little more.

[@Pitomnik1Ru]

@@vinofarm Thanks for the answer. And how do you bend metal in an arc?

[@vinofarm]

@@Pitomnik1Ru I did not bend the pipe. I bought them used from a farm. Watch the first 4 minutes of the video.

[@BLHomestead]

Love the work you put into your content sir. I really would love a hoop set up. In Oklahoma there is a grant with the agricultural dept that you can apply for to get a hoop house for free or at a substantial discount.

[@Diymarta]

A GRANT? I may have to move to Oklahoma. I want a grant for turning my field of weeds into a meadow of flowers for bees. Anyone know of such a grant?

[@vinofarm]

DIYMarta There are agricultural grants all over the USA. I have a local friend who got a grant for a brand new hoop house last year in MA. He's a small farmer, though. There is a minimum you need to make selling products to be considered a farm. That probably varies by state.

[@justusthreeroses]

Massachusetts....you know.in the new England area.

[@응답하라-b9k]

비닐하우스를 지으려고 합니다 Pvc 파이프로도 만들수 있을까요 한국에는 보통 쇠파이프로 하우스를 만듭니다. 넓이를 6m로 하고 높이는 3m로 하고 싶은데 파이프 길이는 어느 정도면 가능합니까? 답변 부탁드립니다 🙏 하나님의 은혜가 🙏 축복합니다

[@Oh6Torch]

Damn. I just noticed that this was 5 years ago. Everything is expensive now. Galvanized pipe is costly, even on CL. Nice video regardless

[@AlfonsGunawan]

awesome green house!

[@agribuzzph]

hello sir, what is the height of your hoop house, length and size of the of the pipe?

[@aconsideration]

Nice. thank you for posting

[@REVNUMANEWBERN]

ONE question: How many hours did it take to complete JUST the base & frame to the point it could be covered????

[@vinofarm]

I can go from bare ground and parts to the frame assembled in about 2 days by myself. Way faster with a few people.

[@cagrikoru2287]

Hi, do you think a hoophouse without cement fundamentals, the same dimensions in video but in a quarter acre field could resist to strong winds?

[@vinofarm]

There's no cement foundation here. The ground posts have good holding power on their own, but you need to secure the HOOPS to the GROUND POSTS properly. I have had my hoops LIFT out of the ground posts in heavy winds. THen I learned to do this: 12:11

[@cagrikoru2287]

@@vinofarm Thank you for quick response. Your videos helped me so much on starting my own hoophouse...I was actually concerning if the ground posts would lift out or not. (after seeing many hoop house constructions using foundations).The way you built the hoophouse, at what speed can withstand the wind? Do you have a guess, or experience?

[@vinofarm]

Cagri KORU I don’t have an exact answer. A lot of it would depend on your soil. I know the ground posts on my hoop houses never lifted from wind. Only the hoops IN the ground posts. If you are concerned, just use longer ground posts and bury them a little deeper.

[@cagrikoru2287]

Thank you, I will go with longer ground posts just in case..

[@KA-cc9yw]

How did you transport all the materials to your farm ?

[@vinofarm]

0:55 - I rented a moving truck for a day.

[@frankgonzalez6336]

Do you hand a material list

[@thomsonkev]

Any issues with winds or snow as far as just buring the posts 2ft? Wondering if I should just drive mine in or cement them, I'm in the Berkshires and we get decent wind.

[@vinofarm]

We're up on a hill and get a lot of wind. There's never been any movement whatsoever with the ground posts moving, but the hoops definitely used to lift up out of the posts before I added the cross bolts. 12:10 As for snow, I space my hoops at 3' instead of the standard 4'. My first one was made with 4' spacing and there is definitely sagging of the plastic between the hoops when we get a lot of snow. The one in this video has 3' spacing and it's much sturdier. If you use proper galvanized pipe, you won't have any trouble. A PVC or thin walled metal pipe would certainly collapse under snow load.