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What, no bungie cords? My chicken tractor clear weather-proofing is mostly held on with bungie cords so I can change it with the wind. For the permanent run I'm going upscale with greenhouse-grade tarp material.
It's my patrimony: What was our milk barn, and now is dry storage and bottle-baby calf pen, was built about 44 years ago of used concrete forms held together with 40p spikes, the floor of raw-milled 6 X 10s framed on recycled telephone poles and the roof on unpeeled fir poles. It's still standing fine, even though a claustrophobic yearling bull once pushed his way out the corner and it had to be pulled back together with a comealong.
(See "Stumpfarmer")
hahah~~yes yes.. bungies--I DO have some of those too--
lol
See, the strength of your dry storage/bottle baby pen--it's a testimony to what we redneck farmers can pull together and make last!
yay us!
heehee! where are you getting the tarp stuff?? I had one of the costco tarp garages that I have since repurposed some of the walls into wind blocks on the cochin tractors.. It seems to work well. I also have a little thingey that I can put grommets in plastic.. I might actually put real grommets in that garage tarp.. it will last another hunnert years I think... Right now it's just stapled, but they come out. and I hate looking for staples in grass..
I went through everybody who came up when I googled "plastic greenhouse cover" and ended up buying from the first google result, a place in Florida but what can ya do? I'm getting a hundred feet of six foot wide roll goods for $40 less than made up tarps of the same goods, which would be about half again the shipping because of the weight of the gromets, reinforced corners, and rope edge, and maybe five running feet less actual coverage by six to eight inches lost along the sides.
Now if I could only find a good bundle of lathe somewhere. The good that living in the future has brought in terms of the internet, cell phones (oh, how my dad would have loved cell phones: he could mow hay and talk to people at the same time!) Gorilla Glue, really good rechargable batteries, and Thai food is somewhat counteracted by the lack of hundred count, six foot bundles of 1/2" by 1 1/2" lathe and
really good chicken wire.
Oh, wait, add to that "good things about living in the future" 1 1/2 inch waterproof drywall screws. I grew up on Yelm Prairie and drove way too many fence staples with rocks, to the lasting damage of my hands so anything to do with hammer and nails has been replaced with a square-battery Makita and drywall screws or, in case of heavy usage, deck screws (the teflon ones are jazzy).
My sister and I were the only children of one of those "Greatest Generation" guys who believed that one had children to get farmhands. I was the only first grade girl with her very own wrecking bar in Yelm in 1958.
