What I've been doing for the last three weeks

rrlund

Well-known Member
I finally got that old barn down and the lean to off the big barn and got something better put up.
The black and white steel on the back wall was the center wall in the old one,it's the back wall in the new one. I just lowered the header and sloped the roof the other way. I put steel on the outside so the wall is double thick now. It'll keep the cattle from tearing up the new wall anyway. What you can see up close in the second picture is a barn what I left standing. The new stuff started and went from there.
We've had a few good fires burning old lumber but I've got one heck of a bunch of old steel to clean up and haul to the crusher yet.
I have to pour some concrete yet where there wasn't any between the old barn and lean to and where there was a free stall alley needs to be raised up.
I reused the steel off the roof of the lean to on the back sidewalls.
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Nice job! I would of thought beef critters would go right thru those posts but I have to bow to experience. I've never raised the beasties!
 
The old saying goes, "It has to look worse befor it looks better" Nice progress, looks like some more work before you can pour crete though. HeHe
Loren.
 
Lookin good! Remember, save the nails that come out of the box backwards, for the other side! LOL Sorry, corny carpenter joke!
 
I wish the one that went in to a front tire on the FWA loader tractor had come out the other way.
 
If you do,go out and build it on clear ground. Don't build it where something else was. I didn't even move the cattle out of this one while I was tearing down and rebuilding. What a mess. Some day,somebody will wonder how all those crappy footprints got on every piece of lumber and steel in it. lol
 
I haven't got much done either as far as farm work. Hard to even keep up with the "have to do's" with this going on,but it has to be done before I can wean calves and pick corn.
 

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