Thursday, February 19, 2015

Some further ideas for the quonsets

Brainstorming some ideas for "da Ranch".  One possibility is to rename the Ranch.  I don't know about "da Ranch", it doesn't evoke anything.  Or not enough.  Perhaps I could call it the Big Rock Candy Mountain Ranch.  It is a joke.  The Big Rock Candy Mountain is a song about hobos.  Hobos don't work.  At "da Ranch", working your ass off is required.  The place is anything but a "rock candy mountain", but rather a heaping mountain of work that a hobo won't find hospitable at all.  The song is full of crap, so is everybody, so the song could apply to the name.  However, I may not be able to steal the song's name without inviting trouble.

There's that hill you pass on the way in here.  I can call it the Big Rock Candy Mountain as a joke.

Now that's settled...

What about the quonsets?  I need to plan out the thing further.  Keep that train moving right along.

I may use the honeycomb as a walkway.  Fill it up with dirt from under the grow box that will rise above it.  But not all the way up.  I will put something over the dirt to keep it from contaminating everything else in the quonset.  One downside is that the honeycomb stuff is expensive.  Twenty squares would be nearly $300.

One side of the grow box would be gravel or perlite, the other would be this honeycombed fill with dirt, gravel, or perlite.  The reason is that one side will be more shaded than the other.  I won't be planting grass, or growing much grass in there.  It might be worth it to try it, but I'm not expecting much.

Update:

There may be another way to do this:  Use a four x ten grow box instead of a 1.5 foot one.  Put the same amount of growing materials and so forth and use a smaller space.  Two of these inside of a 20 foot quonset will get you to two out of the three grow boxes needed.  A smaller quonset will yield the third grow box.  Let's say 12 footer for that one.  To get the space at the ends, just open the door.


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