hey everybody welcome back to another nature's always right episode today we're going to be talking about how to build a washing table just like this and this is one that actually collects water so underneath I have some pond liner that rushes all the water down into a sump tank and then that's pumped out to all my shrubs and trees I'll be showing you how to build that in a separate video today is all about the root washing table so this is how I wash all of my radishes carrots beets kale chard anything that's on a baby salad green is washed here and I'm able to collect all that water and then this is where I would wash my baby mixes so I've got a video on each one of these pieces in the post-harvest system so I'll put links to all that in the video description or search my playlist the post-harvest station now I'm moving on to my wash table and this one's gonna be a little bit simpler to build it's only gonna be two feet wide by 91 oh it's just too wide back there to use the whole thing so I'm gonna cut it off at here I'm using these two long 2x4 just the main supports I'll be ripping off these I'm gonna be cutting here and the boards on here I'm gonna have to put in a couple more boards just to give it more support for the toes when the tips are in there so I picked to use this top side here I had to pick one of the halves and this these halves have the nicest part top halves because I won't be steel mesh to kind of lie flat on top of there so that's why I picked that one so I'm gonna need some more lateral support pieces I works out perfect because this piece right here is exactly 24 inches on both sides and then this is like an 8 foot 2x4 I can cut these up for my drawing table all right so this is all firewood but I was able to salvage for two foot two by fours and an 8 foot 2x4 so I'll be able to cut these up and make my support pieces so I need to add a piece in the middle of here and here so that when I put up the hardware cloth that has plenty of support so I'm just gonna take my two foot pieces I pulled off so it worked out pretty nicely a couple of the ones on other boards were 30 inches so that worked out perfect so here's to 30 inches and I'm gonna make two more 30 inch legs and this other 2x4 I had left over from another project that makes I'll be putting in legs and I'm gonna be putting them underneath the main edge that's really easy because I can push it against this board and up against this board and since these are at a 90 degree angle my leg ends up at a 90 degree angle everybody back in my garage today it's really hot outside the shade I'm going to be having in one more piece of wood right here I'm just a little bit worried that over time hardware cloth will sag because of weight on top of this so I've just got a 2 by 3 right here and I'm just gonna cut these till thing put them on and then the next step will be to put on my quarter inch hardware cloth for this I just need some wire snips 20 bucks and some gloves definitely so I don't cut myself this is 3 foot wide by 25 foot long at 1/4 inch mesh and this will wash table design this is based off of Curtis stones design and I'm just building it with the random wood that I have so it's not exactly to his specification it's the same exact design and you can get his book and it tells you exactly the dimensions and I build it we can go look watch on the tweet YouTube videos they're really awesome I'm going to use staples to hold it in place at first and then I'm gonna come back with some 100 quarter inch screws with some washers that's gonna sink the hardware cloth into the wood and really hold it tight and get it close for now somebody's old and take a gun and just lock it up first thing I get my link because this thing it's just too much to deal with so I want to get my little bit first so I'm just making sure I can fold this under it's a little bit long that's okay just in case doesn't even stay fix them the gloves are crucial here otherwise I'd be ripping my hands apart now we got a nice straight cut it's pretty easy just to fall on the line alright so the next thing I need to do is make this thing easier to attach so look if I pull if I try to pin this down this side comes up I try to bend this down I can't pin this I have to cut it in a certain way to relieve the pressure so that now I can fold it down so I'm gonna cut it here and then flush with this 2x4 right here and then I'll cut it down and around and because of the way I cut the legs the legs on the inside so I'm gonna have to cut my hardware cloth and my tarp to make it fit in there but I can still do it so now on this side I can fold this down and then on this side I can fold this down so I'm gonna do the same thing on each corner and then I'm gonna fold it over try to get it tight and then throw a few staples in but what's really gonna get it tight is when I a little bunch of bricks down on top of this to really stretch it out and get it flat and then when I put my tarp under I'm gonna seal it in with washers and screws I want to make sure not to move this this is right in the pattern where I want it so that's absolutely gonna make it work and make it easy so I'm just gonna try to get this as tight as I can this this mesh really matters is on the top the sides as long as they're not poking poking me they're gonna be fine they're not going to be in the way of anything so they keep it tight up there and rolling out extra and including staple on the top of it then I kind of go down it together switching from side to side so I can keep this really tight I'll wrap the pond liner up over the top and then that will make it tight went through and mock this up a couple times just to make sure I had the length and it was gonna fit correctly and so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna be attaching this pond liner that's what I'm using this is some leftover pond liner that I used my large worm table over there so it's left over from that and I have some old leftover screws and I'll be driving those through these washers to help pin the pond liner into the steel mesh hardware cloth so I just laid out the pond liner I'm dragging it through the middle of my legs and it's very even and then I'm just gonna fold the edge over about two inches over the top and then I'm going to drive my screws I just want to give a little tip for drilling so this is a multi-function drill it has screw mode it's just drill mode for drilling holes or pilot holes or using a hole saw this is the hammer drill this is for masonry okay so I'm screwing in some screws and then those numbers on the top here are for torque if I put too much torque it's gonna really twist and bind up that pond liner so I turned down the torque a little bit down to 13 and that seems to be pretty good I can't even turn down maybe to 11 and I get a little bit less twist when you're driving the screw at the very end it's gonna either put 16 or it can put 11 or 13 in at the end when you put it down at 11 I can't make it any tighter it doesn't have enough torque to drive this screw deeper into the wood so this is just a preventative measure and so that's one way you can kind of utilize the torque function to get a better screwing action while you're building things okay so I'm gonna mock this thing up and I'm just gonna get everything ready first so I'm gonna lay out all my washers and screws I'm gonna put one in every two by four and I want to find the link so that it just like a gradual slope towards this way and it'll just drain into a big tub so I just want to look at the angle here and try to get it nice that's pretty gradual but I kind of want to lift this end up a little bit higher someone's like here the Chuck the clutch kick in and click that means it's as tight as this thing can make it you know I like 13 it'll drive it a little bit deeper I'm just gonna finish off the last couple screws here and just I tell you this corner up and then I'm gonna leave this hanging like this I'm gonna have to cut it a little bit but I want to get my tote first my tub work and then figure out where it's gonna sit I don't know if I'm gonna go to skinny one it's gonna fit underneath or one that'll be right out in front probably right out in front so in that case I just want to wait so I can like cut it out correctly to fit in the tote that I choose and then I'm just gonna throw this in the final position behind the house and we'll be good to go here's the final product the only thing I paid for this stainless steel hardware cloth it's the only thing I paid for this and what I pay I paid 60 bucks for 25 feet of it and that's gonna build my wash table and my ride table all the wood was free the screws are free so I'll spend about like 40 to 50 bucks on a wash and dry table how I connected the pond liner to my little tote here just a basic 50 gallon tote so yeah it's just that HDPE or it's an LDPE tote those are the two best types of plastics and all I did was just cut a little hole in there got my tarp to fit through I pulled it through even cut the tarp a little and then I'm just using a couple clips to hold it in and the water strains right in no problem just a super simple solution and then here's the sump tank and my pump and that pumps the water out to those banana trees right there and then also all of these shrubs going down the whole back the property here my tutorial on how to set this up will be in my greens bubbler video so stay tuned for that one right guys I hope that video was really helpful for you and showed you a real simple way to build one of these tables you know you can really build it to any size or specification that will fit your needs hope it really helps you speed up your process for washing and allows you to save some of that water so you can reuse it if you're in an area that doesn't put a lot of rainfall alright guys happy gardening and happy farming and I'll see you guys in the next episode