Building a foldable/dismountable garden cloche

Calahonda52

Apologies for not posting the attachment in the post, can't master it on the Mac.
Anyway I want to make a number of garden cloches, 4' square, with two gables and 6 joints as labelled A to F in the attachment.
Any thoughts on how to make it like lego, where it is easy to take apart for storage.
They will be covered in plastic during the season, will try have it reusable but not imperative.
I plan to use 2" by 2" PT timber which I can get in the local agri store.
I thought of maybe two ply pieces at the A,B,C joints, bolted through.
D,E,F is a bit of a puzzled, don't want just 150 mm screws into end grain.

Thanks as always
ps, just thinking, the 6" to 8" vertical sides could be from say 6mm ply

GinSoaked

What you have drawn used to be known as a Barn Cloche.

I used to have about 60 glass ones made up like this http://glangwili-farm.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-assemble-barn-cloche.html, I've seen nurseries with hundreds if not thousands of cloches made up like that.

But plastic is probably much less hassle. You could do something similar with sheets of polycarbonate. You used to be able to get plastic clips to make them up https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tenax-BARN-CLOCHE-CLIPS/dp/B0015RC4LA are similar to some I've used as are https://picclick.co.uk/Vintage-Box-of-Rumsey-Cloche-clips-for-123261108028.html.

Sorry if thats not what you were looking for

kadman

There you go,

dathi

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M6-Bronze-Furniture-Connector-Bolts-Cross-Dowel-Barrel-Nuts-Joint-Fixing-Bed-Cot/223026750152?hash=item33ed6e22c8:m:mP7iei80hh_tDgKyStOjHYQ

you could use something like these to bolt ends to sides