The Welder Welds Again!

When The Welder is not busy welding for other people, I can occasionally convince him to stop by here and knock something off of my list. [He still has time to work for other people, so if you have some welding, building or some such other thing that needs to be done, email him at BennettTheWelder@gmail.com. He's a very clever guy and does a really good job.]

A week or so ago, it was the Big Building Shuffle.  The Sheep Shed needed to be moved over into the pasture where the sheep live (duh!), and the Loafing Shed needed to be moved over to the pasture where the alpacas will live once this heat wave passes. 

The Sheep Shed was the easy part. It is long and slim on built on skids. The Welder made it specifically so that we could hook a chain up to it and drag it to wherever we wanted it.

But how do you get a 14 foot building through a not-quite-12-feet gate opening?  The word “sashay” comes to mind, and that’s pretty much how he did it!

Then there were two Hay Feeder projects.  the first one involved the newly-relocated loafing shed. If we decide to use the far east pasture as a separate pasture, we will be one hay feeder short. A modification to the loafing shed itself took care of that, and did not take up any precious floor space!

The second hay feeder project was over in the big pasture where we had a Billy Goat Gruff hay feeder made just for goats that was about 6 or 8 feet long. The problem with this arrangement was that the big goats were able to bully the little sheep away from the feeder.

The Welder solved this problem for us by turning the one long hay feeder into two smaller hay feeders that we put in two different places in the pasture.  The bully goats tend to stick together at one feeder, and the smaller animals now eat out of the other.

One half in the quonset hut...

The other half by the loafing shed!

Problem solved!