On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:31:49 -0400, WCD
wrote:


I'm thinking of putting up a hoophouse at my place in western Maine.
Looking at the literature, it looks like they all need to be heated in
order not to collapse under snow loads.

Are there any hoophouses able to take snow loads without needing heat?


I know people who actually LIVE in a hoophouse in upstate
New York. They've lived in it for 3 or 4 years. (They
don't plan on living in it forever.) It's heated of course,
they're living in it.

Upstate New York will not have your amount of snow, but the
snow there is certainly not trivial.

The one they have is he

http://www.hoophouse.com

I don't know which model they have. Maybe they've
reinforced it, I don't know that either.

We're planning on building one, and reinforcing it, and
hoping it stands up under the snow load we have here in
northern Pennsylvania.

Pat
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