On Sunday April 15, 2012 Loius Thiery and I travelled to the Hudson Valley to observe Benjamin Shute build a Fido for a greenhouse on his farm, Hearty Roots. Our end goal is to create a device design and documentation accessible enough for farmers to build Fido themselves. We all knew beforehand that we had not reached our goal yet but we saw value in a trial run to see what we might learn to help direct our design and documentation efforts. During the build we took feedback and photographed Ben's progress.

Just throwing this in here for some context on this tool.

The original discussion -> http://farmhack.org/forums/tool-wiki-template

Thanks for pushing this forward Dorn!

Construction

This will just be a basic outline for now

• Step 1. Bend Tubing
• Step 2. Assemble Bows
• Step 3. Drill and Assemble Rails
• Step 4. Layout
• Step 5. Erect Frame
• Step 6. Attach Hipboards and Endwalls
• Step 7. Skin it.
• Step 8. Roll it.

This "tool" is in the concept phase so these are just some tentative guidelines. If you think they're restrictive or don't fit your need, feel free to contradict or innovate!

Threads in this forum should be one of two things: a developer looking for resources or resources looking for a developer.

Developer Looking for Resources (D4R) You've got a project that needs funding? What's the best way to persuade people to fork over their greenbacks?

The following list can now be added to and edited here

larger farm type items, hydraulics, transmissions, wheels,bearings www.surpluscenter.com www.northerntool.com applied industrial