That Dutch greenhouse builders are real adventurer , Leo Alleblas can confirm . He has been around in the sector and has travel a lot . " The current generation does not believe their ears when you tell the stories of the old days . Everything was done by hand . "
Leo was fourteen years old when he terminate school as a carpenter . " I could make 47 guilders per hebdomad . My father , who had a small glasshouse demolishing companionship , offered me double . " The seventies were expert years for nursery demolishers . Greenhouses developed very tight . Particularly vegetable cultivator in the Westland switched in high-pitched numbers to high-pitched greenhouse with wider windows . more light meant more kilogram after all . Their old adjustment and mend were in gamy demand in other parting of the country and even abroad .
Second hand greenhouses"One of our first projects was for Nouws , an alboriculturist in Zundert . We install a gracious greenhouse we had purchased to begin with from tomato grower Keijzer in Maasland . The brightness level was less authoritative to Nouws than to Keijzer . The alboriculturist , it was an idealistic greenhouse for a just cost . The greenhouse was 6,000 m2 , quite a size for those days . Although the alboriculturist did not like a shot need all that blank , he purchase the integral greenhouse . We pass every year to add 1,500 meter . "
His father ’s company grew steadily and started to furnish overseas eventually . " One of our first projects abroad was with flower agriculturalist Schweemers in Germany . Germany had hard-and-fast rules with regard to greenhouses and the glasshouse we supply , equipped with some raw trusses and some new legs , met those rule dead . "
build in IcelandWhen working for his farther , and in the come after years , when Leo pulverise and built greenhouses with his brother Aad under the name Alleblas en Zonen BV , he traveled afield a lot . One of the trips he remembers well is Iceland , end of the eighties . " We were building a greenhouse for the cultivation of rosiness in the middle of summer - at the prison term quite a profitable patronage for Icelanders . "
" It was a bizarre experience . While cultivate in shorts and T - shirt the one day , the wind turned east and next day could be fifteen point colder . A country of veridical extremes . " The glasshouse had to be prepared for uttermost weather conditions . " We had to narrow the glass to sixty centimetre . Otherwise , it would bend and break due to too much snowfall . "
Pouring concrete in SpainHow different are the conditions in Spain in a scorch summertime in the outset of the nineties . Close to the urban center of oranges Valencia , Leo and his co-worker make a greenhouse for a Dutch bonsai Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree grower . At night , they went into town , but during the sidereal day they had to work hard . " We build a shed with a concrete floor , which dried at 40 ⁰C faster than we could keep up with . We should have ask for a concrete retarder , but that was lost in version . We had to take away the top stratum and level the floor all over again . "
" We did get a line from it . When we were doing a projection in France , my brother , who spoke French well , order retarded concrete . " Well , we got it . The concrete pour on Friday , had not dried on Monday . "
Everything by handLeo says that a construction site looked very different in the early days . " construction greenhouses was a destiny of manual labor . You picked up the steel and carried it around all Clarence Day . Now , you have the Manitou and all kind of other machine , so barely any manual lifting is involve . This saves the current genesis a lot of back pain and other physical complaints we have to divvy up with . "
drawing card of building greenhousesAfter all variety of wanderings ( Zwirs Kassenbouw , Saarlucon , Hogervorst Tabben ) , Leo end up with Holland Tuinbouw Systemen ( HTS ) . " It is the risky venture that keeps draw me in . It is the attractive feature of glasshouse construction , you end up everywhere . Recently , I was in Austria driving through gorgeous vista . Very unlike than the Netherlands , where everything is as unruffled as a tile . It also remains a challenge to score undertaking over the competition . That , and the urge for dangerous undertaking is mystifying in the nature of the Dutch greenhouse builders . "
For more information : Leo AlleblasHolland Tuinbouw Systemen+31 ( 0 ) 6 30719413[email protected]www.hollandtuinbouwsystemen.nl
This is the sixth instalment in the serial ' Andere Tuinbouwtijden ' , in which various ' old chapeau of the concern ' look back at meter long gone . And in which we look at what their study has meant for the gardening sector of today .
Part 1 : Rob Grootscholten - 42 years of construction … Part 2 : Peter Stuyt - As Dutch American , I combine … Part 3 : Leo Alsemgeest - Bit by bit a step backPart 4 : Harry Dullemans - Never recount you are not there … Part 5 : Kees de Groot - We have to make something else then …
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