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Glenn Nelson's avatar

As always, the concept of a moveable tunnel is wonderful, the reality seems to be another story. Whew! It's like so many tasks these days: the 4-minute YouTube video only shows step #12 - the actual moving - and glosses over steps #1-11 and #13. Life is seldom that simple, as we've all learned. Thanks, Rob, for continuing to let us know what hard work you do to make good food. Now, if more of us could extrapolate and realize that this is probably true for everyone who performs well any worthwhile task.

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Glenn Nelson's avatar

Oh, almost forgot: Do you move each tunnel once a year? In the spring?

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Rob Faux's avatar

The goal in the past has been to move each building once per year. One in Spring and one in Fall. Since 2020, it has been less frequent for various reasons.

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MaryJo Rathe's avatar

Very interesting and more involved than I had imagined.

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Paul A. Brewer's avatar

They are noisy and smelly, but Mantis tillers can be set up to do edging, and also with the wire brush attachment on one side, also crack (or maybe track!) cleaning. If there is a battery-electric version of the Mantis out there - that might be a lot nicer.

This might seem wasteful, but for jobs requiring a number of certain and specific tools, I often invested in a set of them just for the task at hand and put them either in their own cloth tool bag, or their own tool box. "Tunnel Tools for Moving" or something like that. Often saves a lot of steps, time, and maybe even a little frustration. You just have to resist the temptation of borrowing tools out of THAT set and not returning them! (??)

Thanks for sharing this Rob! It had just enough "railroading" in it to really hold my interest!! 😉

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