The aponix vertical barrel equipment is very different than the usual tower solutions! They have been designed to be very robust and actually usable in the day-to-day processes and operations of a professional urban micro farm. Users clean growing equipment after every grow cycle. There are certain processes that are repeated over and over again up to 12 or even 20 times a year after harvesting from your growing equipment. With the aponix vertical barrel you harvest, unstack ring segments, power-wash, re-stack and replant, no small parts/screws, dead corners, screws or anything like that. You do not even disassemble the single parts – you clean stacks of ring segments all at once. It is engineered to withstand at least 5 years of year round production and rough handling. Aponix has put a serious amount of effort into its design regarding many different dimensions of the product to make it as simple and robust as possible.