Marjorie Vogel wrote:What a timely post! I had an idea the other day and have yet to experiment with it.
I've been picking up the sections of an old concrete silo from the farm my husband works at. I would put five in the back of our SUV when I dropped him off each morning and now have a nice stack that I knew would someday be useful. Each piece is 2' wide and 3 1/2' long. They are corrugated, formed concrete with tongue and groove channels on all sides. They are meant to interlock in a circle, and then be stacked. The silo itself has metal bands every four courses to hold it together. Of course a silo holds all the weight inside. I know I can make round raised garden beds from one course. I'm wondering if I could make this kind of wall for a bed and just secure it by partially burying it?
craig howard wrote:I'm not sure those curvy brick walls could handle dirt piled up behind them.
Seems like it could cause them to expand and crack.
Jenn Lumpkin wrote:Seems like things are getting really weird ... to me.
Reading this, I just would like somebody who understands these things to forewarn me ... I guess this IS the forewarning.
If I could figure out what to do, I'd do it, but ... holy mackerel. What's going to happen? (btw, this link takes you to the "comments" at the bottom but Just go on up to read from the top.). If you read it ... which I hope somebody will and then ... what to do, whut to do? Like "trust He will provide for us," well that's a fine policy ... might just have to rely on that. He's done it so far.
K Eilander wrote:
As far as backups go, I'm using SyncTrayzor, which is the windows ui version of Syncthing though there are mac, linux, and android versions as well (all opensource) The important thing is the tool backs up data between my own computers. All it does is watch for files that change and then copies them back and forth when it detects the other computer/device is online. Set and forget. Works great.