You are kickin’ it into High Gear these days! :)
Diana your bug bouquets are blooming, I have 8 of them along the front of the veggie garden. Is the borage the big leaf stuff? I went easy on it. Hubby asked this morning if it is edible.
Ahh but now money is the hold up. They want $250 per day to rent the smallest walk behind trencher. Going to rig something up for the little tractor. The soil out at that area is rock free so I know the tractor will dig a 4 inch wide by 12 inch deep trench. I can take a single bottom plow which are typically 12 inches wide and cut it down to 4 inches. They’re on craigslist all the time for under $100 and I get to keep it and use it for planting trenches.
My automotive epoxy primer went bad sitting out in the shop - heat/cold. I still have activator but they want $187 for a gallon of that primer now. I could swap to a cheaper brand but then I’d also have to buy activator for it. Would save $30 but I’d be throwing out this $150 worth of activator.
So I guess I’m ordering a $187 gallon of primer today. I’ve got two old trucks here that need body work so I know I’ll use it all. I’ll end up needing more activator at some point. I have two qts and it’s a 1:1 mixing ratio with the primer and get this;
They only sell the primer in gallons and only sell the activator in pints now. That’s 8 pint cans for 1 gallon of primer. How goofy is that? That and the pints of activator are $34 so that’s $272 to activate the $187 gallon of primer. $459
Since I have two qts of activator, I’ll need $136 of activator down the road for a total of $323 or $165/gal mixed and ready to spray. Good stuff though. It’s not Rustoleum or DupliColor.
And I’ll still need white paint for the high tunnel frames. $2-300 for that. That’ll be the next paycheck. I’ll still end up way under the $4-5k for a new tunnel though. I’ll probably have a complete tunnel for about what they get for just the frame. My truss frames will be fully welded as opposed to a bolt together kit. My metal is thicker too since this pipe used to be a huge hay storage tunnel.
and with that, it’s time to get out there and work on this stuff. I’m late getting started as it is. High 40s this morning.