Excuse me, I'd just like to brag a tiny bit...

[majorcatfish]

Haha! Yes, half a bale shy of a ton!

you just figuring that one out..?


by the way very nice hay barn...

 

[thistlebloom]

I love the cattel panel arch. Glad that it exceeded your expectations in how much it can store.

Now I want a cattel panel but not for my hay but for somewhere in my garden. But alas, there is only so much I can put in this garden.

They don't take more than a smidge of room. It could arch over a walkway...
Mary

 

[Carol Dee]

Is Bay, thistle's new name?

Mary

Oops ! LOL (Not enough coffee this Morning) Plus it sounds a lot like what Bay would do!

 

[seedcorn]

Please, under paid? You have horses & all the do dads that go with horses, so not under paid. We in Ag thank you for your support by owning horses....expensive hay burners. Keep up the good work.

 

[Carol Dee]

Yes. I have a split personality.
One minute I'm a crazy Texan, and the next I'm a BAFG Idahoan!

Like I told Mary, Easy to confuse the two of you when you unload BIG hay wagons all alone!

 

[Carol Dee]

I am not blessed to have a barn so I have always had to tarp it. Double stacked pallets under and double tarped over. I seldom lose any from mold but crawling under a tarp in rain and snow and wind is a huge pain. And the moose are able to stick their heads under and eat the alfalfa.
This year though we had a bunch of cattle panels left over from re-configuring pens and downsizing, so dh and I came up with this--
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It's about 32' long. The cattle panels along the sides are horizontal, and the roof is the cattle panels arched up lengthwise and attached to the top quarter of the horizontal panels. It's about 10' or so at the peak. I will need to brace the roof with 2x4 props as I use the hay up because it won't hold a snow load. It will also have to have the snow raked off every snow event we get. But still a big improvement over a tarped stack.

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We stacked 5 wide for 4 rows up, then 3 on top. You can see there's plenty of air space above the bales.
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I was hoping to fit 5 tons in here for the winter, but it is actually holding 7 tons.
Real pleased with that.

Will that keep the MOOSE out?

 

[thistlebloom]

Please, under paid? You have horses & all the do dads that go with horses, so not under paid. We in Ag thank you for your support by owning horses....expensive hay burners. Keep up the good work.

Well I am underpaid you old curmudgeon brother! Nobody pays me to own horses, duh!

 

[thistlebloom]

Will that keep the MOOSE out?

I hope so. The ends are the weak links, but by moose season the hay on the ends should be back far enough to fit some fencing in front. They are really only interested in the alfalfa which is on the right side. The back side has my grass hay.

 

[seedcorn]

You are over paid if you can afford horses. See you are paid, just not in dollars. Kind of like Dad always said when you & lil brother whined about chores, you are paid when you wear his clothes, sleep under his roof and eat at his table.......

 

[thistlebloom]

You are over paid if you can afford horses. See you are paid, just not in dollars. Kind of like Dad always said when you & lil brother whined about chores, you are paid when you wear his clothes, sleep under his roof and eat at his table.......

Give me a minute...I'm thinking of a snappy comeback...