Candy and I were out shopping looking at plants and other things. She saw some Jasmine and mentioned she wanted to grow some Star Jasmine on a trellis. The Wilco Farm Store had six foot trellises for $25. I told her an eight foot trellis could likely be built for less. They didn’t have any Star Jasmine, lucky me.
So we were out and about in Portland and happened to stop by the Portland Nursery. Right inside the gate was a nice Star Jasmine. Candy told me to get a cart.
The trellis needed five 1”X2”X8’ pieces to build. Took me longer to pick out a bundle and pay for it than it did to put it together. 4d nails were used with a piece of scrap under the places where the nails were being knocked home. About a half hour of sawing and nailing. The nails were a hair longer than the thickness of two pieces if the wood. This is where a little piece of rail road track comes in handy. My short piece of track was set on a piece of scrap on the bench and the points on the nails were quickly flattened.
The hard part was making the supports. Some scrap 2X2 was found. Fortunately on a rust hunt a year or two ago a long 9/16” auger bit was found. That is just the right size for some scrap rebar that was just waiting to be used.
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With the bit freshly sharpened it took to the wood in such an aggressive manner it needed a 10” brace to keep it spinning. It went through the wood pretty fast. To help keep the bit straight piece of scrap were clamped to the work for guides. There was some blue tape on the bit to mark the depth of boring.
A 6” brace was used for driving the screws to attach the supports.
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Six brass #12 - 2” long wood screws were dug out of my screw stash. The shank holes and pilot holes were drilled in the bottom of the trellis, three for each side. The screws were given a liberal coating of candle was before installation.
The trellis was installed fairly easily with only a few taps from a mallet.
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Candy is happy with it and that is what counts.
Tomorrow the Star Jasmine will be planted.
jtk
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