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Egad, where has February gone? I’ve been so busy I hardly know which end is up.

As usual, the rain reaches you first, so, I have TWO days to complete various outdoor projects, maybe grill something outdoors if we can get calm conditions one evening...

But, we do need the rain badly. The burn bans we have are in place for good reason. :-(

I should have burned this afternoon but I was unloading compost and untangling some high tech foil shipping wrap that a $500k machine came in. It was all balled up on top of an almost full dumpster at work. Gonna use it between the rafters and purlins on the tunnel shed to prevent that head heat you get under a low tin roof.

My ongoing conundrum. Roll up sides. I hate em. They seem like something someone came up with as a temporary thing and everyone adapted it as a permanent solution. Revised design. Anti billow rope. It was a fix. It got windy one day for someone, their sides blew outward and flopped around, maybe ripped, so they came up with the rope thing.

Roll up sides would take 4 ½ minutes aka 270 seconds to go from fully open to fully closed. That's just how slow they are, cheap ones or high dollar. Linear actuators would take 24 seconds. If I'm out there and it gets crazy windy so I hit the close button, it would be an excruciating 4 ½ minutes.

Late last night, I went down to the shed and grabbed the one linear actuator I have. Found a deal on ebay. Couldn't remember how long it is. It's 100 mm (3.94"). That's ⅓ of the 300mm (11.81") I was planning on using for my bifold design. Bought a few sticks of EMT conduit today and will make a ⅓ scale prototype so I can work out the pivot points and frame attachment of them.