BARN! and NEW PORCH!

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This morning it was storming. Delighted with our barn we couldn't wait for daylight so we could look out to see our horses standing in their new barn. Daylight came......the horses were clustered under a clump of cedar trees! :barnieWhen the rain let up, I went outside and talked to them. They pricked their ears and listened......"why aren't you in the barn? We built this for you so you could have shelter from the rain. Silly horses, get in the barn!" And I went on with my one sided conversation while they were probably thinking Mommy has lost her mind. I walked our property and went back in the house. We looked out the window and the horses were in the barn. :lol:
 

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Didn't have anything to do with Bay tossing feed into the barn that the horses moved under man-made shelter did it?
No Red it didn't, I didn't feed them until later in the day. Then I did move their feed tubs into the barn and that messed them all up. They had to run through the barn, kicking and bucking, whirling around and making general idiots of themselves. I think they were having a "moving in" celebration. :gig
 

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Today we picked up some eve trim pieces and ordered 42 pieces of 10' tin. Then we toured Lowes and bought treated 2x6's for the bottom rail to screw the metal walls to. We are just going whole hog on this barn!
 

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Today we picked up some eve trim pieces and ordered 42 pieces of 10' tin. Then we toured Lowes and bought treated 2x6's for the bottom rail to screw the metal walls to. We are just going whole hog on this barn!
May I give you some preventative advise ? I would get 4 x 10 or better yet, larger and pressure treated timbers to set at the bottom of the tin as well as set the timbers below gound by a few inches. Reason being that horses have a bad habbit of laying down near the wall and sometimes they roll over and get their legs / hooves protruding under the wall. Tin then makes a NASTY CUT on the pastern, leg or corronet which then makes the Vet. a lot of money.
 

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I have thought about that @bobm but I was thinking about building a form and pouring concrete. I like your idea, it sounds far easier.
 

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