E-Z Bean Tepee on the cheap.

[MrSalvage]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Here it is the collapsible octopus octagon bean/cucumber tepee.

I got tied up with two different women at two stores today.
One was at the spice section I was helping her buy spices to make spaghetti sauce.
The other was at the seed rack at Home Depot about gardening we must have yapped for an hour she talks as much as I do.
Well here it is the boards I am using are in the treated weather stripping wood or something. the other none treated stuff I dont know about.
This is a snap to set up and put away.
Worth
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This is really really nice Worth! You got me thinking about next years crop.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by MrSalvage

This is really really nice Worth! You got me thinking about next years crop.

The one with the hinges and eight legs.
Make sure you read all of the information.
One way it is easy to put up the other way it is easy to take down by yourself.
Also about the soft metal the hinges are made from and how easy it is to mess them up.

Worth

[tarpalsfan]

I guess I have read this thread at least four times. I think it would be awesome to make a teepee for my runner beans and morning glories, small gourds, cucumbers, ect.
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Thank you for sharing your wonderful, garden inventions !

WOW! Put a skin on it and rent it out!

[Worth1]

[QUOTE=Starlight;536273]

Originally Posted by whistech

That's what I was thinking too. Assemble upside down. When I read about hanging in the air , I thought , oh heck, me on a milks crate, in the air with a drill. That would be the making of a disaster for sure.



Now that is what I call a tepee! If I send you a SASE would you send it to me?

I like it. Looks like you have maybe two pieces of wood at the top ? How did you hoof them together?

It's really nice! Good job!

I was thinking about sending you one if I was rich I would send everybody one that wanted one.

As for the top piece it is two 2X4's I cut a clean edged on with the table saw and glued together with what they call Titebond II weather proof glue.
I buy it by the gallon and use it on everything.
The wood will rot before this stuff will and is food safe fro cutting boards and so on.

Originally Posted by JoParrott

WOW! Put a skin on it and rent it out!

I was thinking off that.

Something like this would be the cats meow for camping.

Now that I think about it there is another way to put the hinges on but it might be weaker.
That would be to put the hinges on the bottom of the top board and let the top of the poles rest on the edge of the top center piece acting as a limit stop.
That way you wouldn't have to flip it upside down to unfold it.
It is easy to get up by yourself but almost impossible to get back down without more than one person or you will bend the hinges as I did yesterday.

Once I get it back down again I am going to change it to the second method.

Be back soon with that one.

Worth

Worth, what are you doing in your spare time?

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by JoParrott

Worth, what are you doing in your spare time?

I dont have spare time I bounce from one thing to the next sometimes I take time out to eat and then go to bed and read.
My place is loaded with contraptions I have made throughout the years.
What I do that other people call work is what I call play.
The lady at Home Depot I talked forever to is the same way unfortunately she is married.
If and when I do find another mate they will have to show the same enthusiasm as me about the same things or it wont be a match.

Worth

[Worth1]

Okay Octopus Octagon bean tepee plan B.
Will post pictures and come back with comments.
Okay I'm Back
Worth

The first pictuer is of a small center drill an almost absolute must as far as I am concerned.
It will make a hole without walking.


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Next I tried the upside down lay down flop around method and it sucks you would never get it done so I put a cup hook in the thing and hung it iat about the height it would need to be.
Simple.

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Do all four sides and you can now remove the thing from the tree hanger.
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The next two pictures are my third hand I use them all of the time.
You cant have enough.
I like the one with the little thumb knob.

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enext three are self explanatory.


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Now what I have done is make it easy to take down but now a pain in the butt to put up.
Eight legs mean 8 arms.

I managed to do it with my feet two arms and my shoulders from inside the thing.
Four legs would be easier by far.

But I am working on an idea to solve this but the whole reason for the thread was to be easy.
Sometimes the more complicated you make things the more complicated it gets to make it right.
This is a fine example.
What I had in mind would mean 16 more hinges another octagon and eight more little legs things and make it work like an umbrella.
$%&^ that.
Also the hinges are cheap and bend too easy.

Not a marketable product,----yet.

Worth

[Hellmanns]

Looks good, Worth!

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Hellmanns

Looks good, Worth!

Thanks if they just made a good tempered hinge it would be fine.
I bet the steel is so cheap in these hinges I couldn't temper them if I tried.
These things are so soft a toothless hound dog could eat them.

Worth

[Hellmanns]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Thanks if they just made a good tempered hinge it would be fine.
I bet the steel is so cheap in these hinges I couldn't temper them if I tried.
These things are so soft a toothless hound dog could eat them.

Worth

Yes, true, and more than likely..

[Starlight]

I love the look of the 8 legged one, but I think it's going to be 4 legs for me. 4 legs is a good size for a beginner. You put a cover over that and you'll have every kid for miles around want to come sit in it. All you need now is a small fire pit and some wood stump pieces to sit on. : )

You'll probably be the envy of every gardener around for sure.

Thanks for posting the pic of the top and how you put a hook in. Are those straight cuts down on the 8 legged one? Just curious.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Starlight

I love the look of the 8 legged one, but I think it's going to be 4 legs for me. 4 legs is a good size for a beginner. You put a cover over that and you'll have every kid for miles around want to come sit in it. All you need now is a small fire pit and some wood stump pieces to sit on. : )

You'll probably be the envy of every gardener around for sure.

Thanks for posting the pic of the top and how you put a hook in. Are those straight cuts down on the 8 legged one? Just curious.

No they are 30 degrees also.

Worth

[Tormato]

Wish I could see your pics, Worth. Holes? Hinges?

My teepees on the cheap are me walking a few hundred yards to a friends 60+ acres of wooded land. He lets me cut all of the maple saplings I want. In return, I clean up the cans and bottles from the occasional weekend parties held by high schoolers.

100+ bean poles = $0.00
recycled rope from balled and burlapped trees = $0.00
duct tape = ~$5.00

That's my 25+ teepees on the cheap.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Tormato

Wish I could see your pics, Worth. Holes? Hinges?

My teepees on the cheap are me walking a few hundred yards to a friends 60+ acres of wooded land. He lets me cut all of the maple saplings I want. In return, I clean up the cans and bottles from the occasional weekend parties held by high schoolers.

100+ bean poles = $0.00
recycled rope from balled and burlapped trees = $0.00
duct tape = ~$5.00

That's my 25+ teepees on the cheap.

I wish you could see pictures too.
If I lived where I used to live I would use post oak saplings and bailing twine.

This one is for urban folks that dont have access to the woods.

Worth