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Comment by Kevin Gorham on September 21, 2012 at 11:41am

You said you use three passes with a drill to drill your holes? Mind if I ask how you did it/what bits you used? In the past I've seen it done with a 2" hole saw, but the holes don't look quite as clean as what I see in your photographs.

Comment by Brad on September 21, 2012 at 8:18am

More impressed.

I am in Oman and I have worked many oversea assignments. If I ever get a contract in your neighborhood expect me to drop by.

You continously impress me with drive and willingness to help out us FNG's

Comment by Vlad Jovanovic on September 21, 2012 at 4:44am

Hi Brad...I have no employees, it's been just me and the missus building this system...literally by ourselves. A friend from Wwoof (non-smoker ) came by to help around the farm for a few weeks while I was building the troughs and a neighbor came by for about an hour and a half while we lined them...and that's been about it really. Thanks for the warning though, foam catching fire sure would be bad.

Comment by Vlad Jovanovic on September 21, 2012 at 4:36am

Yeah it was a blast Chris. In the past I've used the cut-outs for clones (cut in half to make a one inch tall cut-out). But I've no idea what I'll do with this many of them. Our local elementary school only has a couple dozen students total, but I guess I can ask around some. I used two saw-horses with a leftover bottom of an IBC between them, so their was almost no clean-up involved. I've been loathe to take them to the dump so the whole shebang is just sitting there still...

Comment by Brad on September 21, 2012 at 4:17am

Looks great.

Firefighter in me so "don't put all your eggs in on basket." Or firefighter lingo don't stack 5700 motions all in one spot. Would make a mighty big fire and the damage to a greenhouse would be unwanted......... Ignition source from pictures would be difficult, the firefighter in me "sees" a lazy employee dropping a cigaratte down a hole and thermodynamics taking it from there. Nice work on all the picture of what I seen so far.

Comment by Vlad Jovanovic on September 21, 2012 at 12:41am

Thanks Bob, it wasn't particularly hard or anything...just real damn tedious. Using a template, each hole takes 3 drill operations...so like 5,700 of the same motion...over and over again...it only took a day and a half though. Work I don't mind, waiting on materials is what kills me.

Comment by Chris Smith on September 21, 2012 at 12:18am

Lots of fun drilling holes!!. You can consider yourself pro at the 2000 mark. I donated most of the cutouts from my foam to local schools for craft projects instead of land-filling them. My daughters preschool has done some great things with them. What are you going to grow??

Comment by Bob Campbell on September 20, 2012 at 6:34pm

Nice!    What a lot of work that must have been.  Good luck with your first crop.

Comment by Vlad Jovanovic on September 20, 2012 at 5:45pm

They are from local company here who are licensed to produce for Austro-Therm. I could have gotten the DOW BlueCore from DOW in Greece, but this was better for me for a number of reasons. No HFC's used in the manufacturing process, no HBCD added. The density is still 30kg/m2.

If you can find a local company who is willing to work with you, and explain what you are using them for...they might be inclined to forgo the brominated flame retardants that otherwise get put into a lot of these types of products in the US. 

Comment by Kevin Gorham on September 20, 2012 at 4:39pm

Looks good vlad! What kind of foam boards are you using? They are not the traditional DOW Blue I'm familiar with.

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