Backyard Aquaponics
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Hi Hoopman, welcome to the forum, I like the kit frames as well - price is good on those too

See you are getting in a free plug - unfortunately the freight would be a killer for me

Hi.. I just believe in being honest that is why I made no real effort to hide my ID.. the photo I posted last nite clearly show this.

US Mail is about $60.00 on shipping which places the total cost just slightly over what others are selling without shipping, still not bad.. We are looking for a distributor in your country because we can ship larger numbers at a time and get shipping down to around $15.00 a unit or less. The normal retail price is $89.00 however we lowered our price to the current level as a promotion and it may stay at that price from now on. By the way keep an eye on our site we will be offering some extra discounts for international customers as a promotion in near future.

By the way we also are moving towards Aquaponics here but much to learn and this forum does provide a lot of info into this.

Thanks.

If you can offer that discount to members here and arrange shipment at a fair price...... (maybe those interested could do a combined order)...
I'm sure there'd be interest here....keep us posted Hoopman

Will keep you posted, working on better shipping cost now. Have shipped several there last few months.

Hoopman

Hoopman,
I have nothing to gain off of the sale of the bending tool I mentioned. I am not involved in anyway with the sale or manufacture of them. I was only giving other folks a way to find a tool that might allow them to construct a greenhouse at a reasonable cost.
As to the matter of S&H, unless you are shipping via Priority Mail, there is no way your tool should cost $60.00, unless it weighs near the limit (78 pounds!) for domestic mail. As to overseas shipment your shipping price can still be cut down considerably by shipping using SAM mail rates. I know all of this first hand because I work for a contractor with the US Post Office.
Kevin

Kevin - I think the $60 was for shipping to Australia.

mokevinb:
You bring up a good point and I am working on reducing the shipping cost to your part of the world, the $60.00 quote I made is directly from USPS web site.

I certainly did not intend to infer that anyone was to gain and I am sorry if that is what you thought. In fact, your posting to homemadegreenhouses web site will help others, even though that business is using our copyrighted photos and text material unlawfully without our permission has ignore our request to cease using them and is not an authorized reseller of our bending tools. More people need to know that there is an alternative to traditional greenhouse construction and it really does not matter what site they learn this from.

We are working with USPS and other carriers to achive much lower shipping cost.

Thank you for your input
hoopman

Hoopman - I sent you a private message a couple of days ago. It is still sitting in my outbox - which means you have not read it. To check your mailbox - blow the main menu bar at the topof the page, there is text which either says you have no messages or you have # messages. Click on this text to get into your mailbox.

Thanks.

I`m all for alternative greenhouse construction methods.
Bending a 20ft+ length of steel tube perfectly round sounds quite difficult, you wouldn`t want to make a mistake at the 17ft mark

Personally, i prefer timber construction, it`s natural, locally sourced and renewable.
Wooden "hoops" are quite easy to make using straight lengths of timber and could be used as a cheap alternative to steel where termites aren`t a problem.
When it begins to rot away it`s time to build another.. only larger

Nah - I love a good gal tube hoop house (but then in Austalia there are bloody termites everywhere).

There are no mistakes using these benders, unless the bend is started or stoped in the wrong place. Watch a 35 second video clip of the DY-10 bender beding 1/2 of a 10 ft hoop, at www.lostcreek.net .... with over 6,000 of these benders out there no one has reported any mistakes. The benders are fixed radius, failure can only occur if tubing is defective which so for has been only 1 in several thousand tubes. Over 700 have been sold on Ebay alone and the buyers who purchased them posted feed back about the benders which is open to reveiw by anyone, the Ebay sellers ID is "tippergoat" go to Ebay and read what the users themselfs say about the benders.

I'm new here can some one point me in the direction of detailed info on building your own fish tank and pond bio filters? We are in the early stages of planning a small trial setup with a 20 x48 hoop house elevated to 13 feet high with 4 foot side walls to be used as a free platform for several local schools to use as part of their ag program's

hoopman

Hoopman, on the "hoopbenders" site there's a photo of a 12'x36' Tomato hothouse....

Am I correct in assuming each arch was formed by bending two 10' 6" lengths and joining them along the top of the arch???

Hard to see from the photo, but would seem obvious you'd need some lateral support.

Any idea how the igloo is held down? Is the weight enough alone to hold it in position when the wing gets underneath it?

Hoopman - most of us use the grow-beds as the bio-filter (the medium in the gorw-bed, most often gravel, houses the bacteria that converts the wastes, acts as a solids filter and houses the plants).

A lot of people have purchased pre-made containers to use as tanks and grow-beds. These are made out of such things as polyethelene or lined currugated iron. A lot of people in the US have been using rubbermaid products (troughs and stuff).

If you were wanting to build it all from scratch you may choose to dig a hole (or build an above ground structure) and line with a food grade liner for the tank and build an above ground structure to line as the grow-beds.

If you want to see an example of a system that has been operating for ages and is a reasonable size (though not as big as what you are suggesting) have a look at the boss' website (Earthbound - Joel). The site is www.backyardaquaponics.com. Another good place to see some examples of systems are the following 3 threads:

http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum ... php?t=1618
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum ... php?t=1617
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum ... php?t=1619

RupertofOZ:

The Poly blocks the veiw of complete frame work. Look 3 more photos to the right at this pic "Inside veiw of a 12' wide greenhouse" There you can see the perlin running length wise down the center at top each hoop is attached to this perlin also visable are the two corner angle braces installed at that end of g/h. Not visable however the hoops slide into larger tubing stakes which were driven into the ground and bolted to them.