GETTING READY FOR MORE CHANGES

We are getting ready for more changes, as we ordered two steel structures, one 12x20 car port, that will go down by the old calf shed. this will be the new barn for the Billy Goat and his weather friend (actually his first son born here).

 In this picture you are looking down from just below the gate to the pasture. The carport structure will run length wise to the red line in the photo. the other side will be along the front of the shed, although the roof of the car port will be straddling the front of the roof of the shed. The ends will be open when first installed, although we plan on adding 2x12x12' pressure treated boards to the closest end to make a short, three foot, retaining wall.

 this picture is pretty dark so you have to use your imagination as to the structure going across the front of the shed. It will run from about one foot to the left side of the shed in the picture over the front of the shed for twenty feet.

 Finally got to play with my transit I had purchased some years ago. Kind of a learning curve but not to terribly bad. Don't pay attention to the mangled gate up above, some oak trees fell on it a couple years ago, it is going to be replaced.

We have started putting down some deck blocks for the building frame to sit on, at this point we have four of the pier blocks set for the building to sit on, on this side.

 This is looking at the other side away from the shed, at this time we only have the two corners set on this side.

 This is just another view from lower in the pasture.

Janice is a great help and worked very hard on this project right alone with me, Maybe harder.

Well we finally have the basic structure installed that will be the living abode for the boy goats. we just added a simple carport over the front of what used to be the calf shed.

this is a view from what will the back of their barn. we are going to build a four foot retaining wall immediately at the rear of the structure and then add greenhouse plastic for this wall so they get good light and are protected from storms. to the right in the picture we plan on building a feeder into the wall of the carport with a roofed hay storage area immediately behind that. I was able to get the construction people to leave some extra metal they had which I will use to fill some areas such as the gable ends and the upper side above the calf shed.

The side that only has upper tan metal we are going to leave open as this is the side facing away from most storms. the end facing down hill will be left open so we can get in this the tractor to clean the area out.
this post is far from complete, but I am going to post now and make additions as we progress.

We are making progress, we have about half of this side done. to finish this side we need to finish installing the 2x12s along the bottom, and some metal and greenhouse plastic on the far two sections, between the uprights.

I have some retaining wall done on this end, now I need to fill the peak with sheet metal and install greenhouse plastic between the retaining wall and the sheet metal in the peak. in this picture you can also see the oak stump I have cut on in order to build a small hay storage and feeder along the side where the ladder is leaning now.

Here you can see the sheet metal I have installed above the old calf shed in order to incorporate it into the barn for the boys goats. Actually only one piece is installed as the second is currently only clamped into place.

 Well I made a little more progress. This end is almost complete, just need to finish the metal up in the peak. filling the little side piece was kind of a pain, but at least it is done.

in this picture you can see I have gotten metal up on the last four foot section on the left, along with some flake board inside to protect the   metal from the boy goats.

The open eight foot section is where we will build a feed shed and feeder.

I still need to bury this culvert and get the French drain installed at the end of the barn and feed shed.

 I really like this side of the barn now that the 2x12s, sheet metal and greenhouse plastic are up.

I started filling the back behind the barn, although I still need to install the French drain across this end in a gravel bed as I finish filling.