Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[Baymule]

Have a good time at your sister’s for Christmas dinner. Hope you get modifications on the sheep and goat shelter done. Most of my ewes lamb outside. Some will go in the barn up in the tiny shelter that was my first effort. If I had your weather, I’d lock them up!

 

[misfitmorgan]

Have a good time at your sister’s for Christmas dinner. Hope you get modifications on the sheep and goat shelter done. Most of my ewes lamb outside. Some will go in the barn up in the tiny shelter that was my first effort. If I had your weather, I’d lock them up!

Thanks Bay.

I am very tempted to lock them up, problem there is if i lock them up they will be in the barn until at least march. That would be 16 ewes/does sharing a pretty small space and trying to lamb/kid for about 4 months which seems like a really bad idea.

I'm going to try to convince DH to let me set up lambing jugs in the bottom of the 2-story because he is going to want to use my pens for the pigs come about febuary and I won't have any place to put the sheep/goats. If he agrees to let me use the 2-story that would work out pretty great. I mean he already has piglets in my other pen that is suppose to be for kidding/lambing.

 

[Bruce]

If he can take over your lambing/kidding pens for his pigs, you can take over the lower part of the barn. Fair is fair.

 

[misfitmorgan]

If he can take over your lambing/kidding pens for his pigs, you can take over the lower part of the barn. Fair is fair.

That was my thought.....

 

[misfitmorgan]

Anyone know what company/brand @babsbag got her barn from? I'm looking into it as an option here for our sheep/goat barn and the first thing the sales guy tried to do was upsell me. He told me the one I was looking at didn't come with an offical snow load rating so he wouldnt recommend it for our area and I should go with a welded truss design(which is double the price).
I know Babs collapsed from snow so I'm just wondering what brand it was and what design, if anyone knows. I didnt see it in her journal but I didn't go back super far.

 

[babsbag]

Mine was a clearspan brand from Farmtec. We had 14" of heavy snow that night and I think that it would have been ok but it was built on a pony wall and one side wall was compromised already. The dirt on one side was fill and not compacted enough and it was already leaning. The snow put extra outward pressure on the wall and it went horizontal and then it was the "zipper affect" after that. I can't prove any of this of course but it is my gut feeling. We built another one but this time we put 1400 lb ecology blocks up against the posts of the pony wall so there is no leaning this time.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Mine was a clearspan brand from Farmtec. We had 14" of heavy snow that night and I think that it would have been ok but it was built on a pony wall and one side wall was compromised already. The dirt on one side was fill and not compacted enough and it was already leaning. The snow put extra outward pressure on the wall and it went horizontal and then it was the "zipper affect" after that. I can't prove any of this of course but it is my gut feeling. We built another one but this time we put 1400 lb ecology blocks up against the posts of the pony wall so there is no leaning this time.

Same company I was looking at. This was the one we were thinking of getting, yes on a ponywall as well.
https://www.farmtek.com/farm/suppli...t_ponywall_buildings;e176d41f_PB00800R4W.html
We were going to mount it on 8" round green treated timber posts that are 4ft in the ground....I don't think it will move. Debating on a slab floor or crushed limestone. Also would be doing the 3ft truss spacing.

 

[babsbag]

It is TALL. We had to rent a lift to do ours. That is similar to mine...same width but mine is only 48' long. Trusses are 4' OC.

 

[misfitmorgan]

It is TALL. We had to rent a lift to do ours. That is similar to mine...same width but mine is only 48' long. Trusses are 4' OC.

Yeah this one is 15ft including ponywalls, shortest one I could find. The similar upgrade with welded trusses would have been 21ft including ponywalls which I was not happy with.

 

[babsbag]

I bought one designed to sit on the ground and it was 15' so with the pony wall the back end is probably about 20' as my ground isn't level. My last one was 11' but this one is a little longer and therefore taller...no idea why.