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To make sure that the holes will line up easily just stack two plates, one on top of the other, and drill two holes at once. I also used my oxy torch to blow some bold holes in to the steel, but you could drill these holes by hand too. I made a total of 6 half-moons to sandwich over the posts and the cross pieces. I used a metal drum as a template to draw a half-moon on the steel then used my oxy torch to cut them out. I had some 1/8" steel plate lying around, but you could use any old sheet metal or angle iron. I went with 3 sacks per hole because again vines can get heavy. Check and recheck because you won't get get any mulligans after this point. Tack your scrap 2"x4"s on to the posts and level your posts. Since I was using 6"x8"s I faced them so that the 8" face face was in, so when capped them with a 6"圆" they would form a 'T' with the arms outstretched. Once you dump the gravel in you drop your 6"x8"x12' posts down the holes and use the posts as a large tamping rod to pack the gravel down. I like to put 6''-8'' of gravel down my holes. This helps to prevent your posts from rotting out. I wanted to have enough leverage in the ground to prevent sagging. The reason for this is that any woody vine, as it grows, can put a lot of weight on a trellis.

This will make leveling your posts up much easier. Make sure when you're doing this you make sure that the holes you dig are nicely centered on the points you marked out and that you dig down as straight as possible. So I dug down with my post hole diggers to about 48' in depth.

Materials: 3 - 6"x8"x12' posts 3 - 6"圆"x8' posts (for crosses) Scrap sheet metal 1/2" Drill bit (for drilling holes for bolts and guide holes for training wire) 1/2'' All-thread or bolts +fistful of nuts, lock washers and flat washers 1/2"x10" Eye-bolts (for wire tensioners) Concrete Scrap pipe Scrap angle iron Oxy-Torch/Plasma Cutter/Angle Grinder for cutting steel plate and all thread Wheelbarrow Hoe Drill Post hole diggers Shovel Welder Pruning shears Old t-shirt/rags Wooden stake Twine Level Gravel Scrap 2"x4"s Hammer Nails Pencil Saw Framing Square Clamps 150' Heavy Fencing Wire (I used 10 gauge steel wire)ĭig your holes. Over the years all the vines had to grow on was a handful of different posts haphazardly pounded in the Earth and some bits of wire.

Despite requiring birch wood to craft, the wood color of the trellis is that of maple wood since December 18, 2021.My Great-great-grandfather and Great-great-grandmother carried the seeds that eventually would grow in to these grape vines in their pockets from Germany, across the Atlantic Ocean, through Ellis Island and across half the nation before planting them in Missouri over 125 years ago.

Despite having farmland at the bottom of it, there are no grass blocks in the recipe.

The trellis is the first block that requires tall grass or birch wood to craft.Players can also stay still on a trellis by not pressing any movement keys.Ĭandy cane seeds can now be planted on trellises.ĭragon fruit seeds can now be planted on trellises.

Players are able to climb up trellises by walking up to it and moving forward to go up and backwards to go down. Grape seeds, candy cane seeds, and dragon fruit seeds can be planted at the bottom of trellises to be grown into grape, candy canes, and dragon fruit respectively.