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bjjohns

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Made this in early 2015. It's a farm wagon with a floor made out of gravel screens (for poo drop-thru), hoops from gray plastic conduit (for sun resistance) and a recycled billboard tarp. We do rotational grazing, and didn't want permanent dead spots in each field.
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What a great concept! Looks awesome. Thanks for sharing.
 

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Does the gravel screen flooring bother them?
The screens are fairly closely woven. Turns out they wear fast, and gravel pits will sell them for scrap pricing.
They have sharp exposed edge wires. I covered those with pressure treated 2x4's. These boards are the ones going left to right in the picture below.
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I love this! But I'm so jealous of people who can keep these kinds of things on their property... I have had multiple hoop structures and mobile sheds get destroyed in our winds :(
 
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