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[CapricornFarm]

Latestarter's goat feeder reminded me of the hay feeder I want to make for my horses. It's a bit bigger than his...
I want to make an entire wall out of 2inch square hay bag netting, then put sheets of plywood behind it, about 6 inches back with hinges at the bottoms, so you can lower the plywood, throw the hay on it, and then pull a rope on a pulley with counter weights to stand it all back up. So, then you will have hay sandwiched between the hay net on the horse side, and the ply wood on the loading side and if you stuff it too full, you can adjust the counter weights so that they are keeping pressure on the ply wood to keep the hay pressed against the net where they can eat it. The smaller net holes will make them eat slower and waste less, while having an entire wall of hay will allow for several to eat at once and the ability to load it with enough hay to last for a few days at a time.

Then, all I will have to do to clean the run in is to clean up the small amount of hay on the ground, clean up the manure, and DONE other than lowering the wall and tossing a few more bales on the board every few days. I have 6 horses, so I will go through about 3 square bales a day, I would like it large enough to get a weeks worth on there at once and then just refill on the weekends.

You have 6 horses? That must be a big feed bill! I mean, they eat like horses, right?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Our kids don't break the hinges... they bend and break the drawer runners, and pop off the entire door and drawer panels.

and my doors! Cheepo doors with holed busted in them.... expensive doors with dents scratched into them...



5 boys

And IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT AL!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I have a headache today and i suspect that may be Al's fault too! If not, then hubby did it.

 

[chickadoodles]

Kids can be very rough on houses!

Marvin's called they found me a sink base and the other cabinet. They will bring them in the morning after he goes and picks them up from Demopolis. Thank goodness!
I told her to have him bring someone to help bring them in the house. That I can't lift them and my dh would be at work and I did not want them getting banged up again.
She said she would.

 

[microchick]

The couple we bought our farm from had an Amish cabinet building company. That man cut every corner he could and a few that he couldn't when it came to building the house but when it came to building cabinets, everything was top of the line and heavy duty from the wood to the hinges. I'm thinking over 30$ each on the hinges.

I mentioned to my husband that if he had made the house with the same quality materials....

and DH said, we wouldn't have been able to afford the house!

 

[Beer can]

They raised our snow forecast to 16"+ awesome. Schools are already closing and it's beautiful outside right now. Guess there is still people without electricity. Heard our Gov on radio say they should evacuate (huh?) and he said it's unacceptable, will be ordering a investigation (more taxpayer $$) and electric companies may be facing fines....
I think those suckers are working pretty hard night and day, other states electric outfits are here also. I think Cuomo should get out there and try unraveling lines from messes of fallen trees, restring them back up, see how fast he can get-r-done lol.

 

[Beer can]

On a better note

 

[pennyJo1960]

Why not? I had a JennAir glass top at my prior house, used the pressure cooker on it no problem.


Me too. Need some for where the south end of the drive meets the road, every time the town grades and adds stone to the road, it gets steeper coming down into the drive. I have to put the trash and recycle "barrels" in the road or they will fall over backwards. And I need to make the parking area bigger. Neither DD had a driver's license until 1.5 years ago. Now (at basically 23 & 25) they both have cars. Not a big deal in the winter but the power line goes right over the area and those spring/summer/fall birds like to sit on it and poop. I'm really not interested in having bird poop all over my car. I ASSUME the same is true of the girls.


How old are the birds? My EEs (I know, not Ameraucana!) start pretty small but work their way up. Cassie started on 10/4 at 42 g. Took 2 months to make it to the small end of Large (> 57g). Eos was similar starting in Nov 2015. Mostly she now lays XL and low end of Jumbo.


Looks like you are planning to share with us this time. Thank you for your generosity

Though we are presumably looking at only 8" Wed afternoon through Sat morning. We shall see, one never knows what will actually show up. Looks like Georgia and north Florida are getting some serious weather now.


Same in Vermont. Only sometimes it doesn't change the way we want it to.

these are true ameracauna I have a load of EE also with jumbo eggs they grew up the three are not changing at all

 

[ronott1]

Kids can be very rough on houses!

Marvin's called they found me a sink base and the other cabinet. They will bring them in the morning after he goes and picks them up from Demopolis. Thank goodness!
I told her to have him bring someone to help bring them in the house. That I can't lift them and my dh would be at work and I did not want them getting banged up again.
She said she would.

My Grand mother had a consignment shop when I was growing up. She taught us to be very careful moving furniture and things. There are two of us here that move things in the department I work in.

One of the Staff asked me specifically to move something for them because the other guy gouges the floor and bangs into walls...That would have made Grandma very angry!

 

[Latestarter]

Wow, sorry all you folks are having winter stuff. Yesterday was almost 80 and sunny (finally) and today the cold front has passed and the high was 65 (but pretty windy). They say 55 for a high tomorrow with night at 32 then climbing back up to mid 70s by the weekend. The nice thing is NO RAIN forecast till at least Saturday

Today I got back to fencing... still very wet and it really sucks post hole digging in wet iron ore clay. 3' holes and they had water filling the bottom. Dropped one post in and it splashed straight up and got me. Then dragged out the lawn tractor and mowed down the weeds that were growing rampant. Even after several decent days with sun and air movement, it was still a quagmire in places. I know I packed the mower deck with wet green mush.

Tomorrow it's back to fencing again.