Mobile loafing shed

[wroughtn_harv]

Nuttin' to it. Outside of some mud on the back overhang you'd never know it's went bottom's up.

This is what I'm doing for the corners.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

from the inside

 

[wroughtn_harv]

outside

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Here's the bottom. You can see how it's designed to be moved easily.

Again, this is without the trim and rake pieces which will make it look a lot better.

 

[F350Lawman]

Looks like a nice simple design, good work.

 

[bgott]

Does your wife know what you were out doing with her car? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Yup.

She didn't think it was a good idea.

But, just figure for a minute.

If I could talk a lady like that to marry me then playing with her car wasn't much of a challenge, right?

You ought to have heard her the time I pulled into a construction site right after a heavy couple days of rain. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Of course my two hours washing the blue thing wasn't near as funny. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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Thanks.

One of the things I like about it is if later bud wants to convert it over to a two stall barn it's easily adaptable.

What some folks don't realize is standard two inch by one inch by eighth inch channel you can find at your local steel supply is a perfect match for two by lumber.

Let's say bud wants a wood divider so the horses can't see each other and is resistant to their kicking. A piece of pipe cut in between the bottom skids. Then he takes a piece of channel and removes a section of side that allows his choice of two by to fit. Say he's using two by sixes. He cuts out a section of one leg of the channel six inches.

He welds the modified channel to one vertical and another piece of channel to the other vertical. He can then slide in two by sixes one at a time and slide them down, one on top of the other until he's got a wall.

The same thing can be done to the existing walls.

 

[cowboydoc]

I'm with you Lawman. It's not a very good idea at all to put horses in a metal barn, shed, or anything in their kicking range. I've heard this story too many times to count that it's just two or one no reason to put wood in. That tin will just about cut a leg off when they kick through it. Always, always put up solid wood where a horse can kick.

 

[gsganzer]

You gotta hate that. I had two loafing sheds on my property when I bought it. One of them blew over in a real fierce windstorm and rolled end over end through a barbed wire fence and ended up in my neighbors back yard. It went about 200 yds.

I plan to anchor the new one using "duckbill" anchors. I can attach the duckbill cable with a threaded eyebolt to the small corner gussets I put in each bottom corner. That way there's nothing for the horses to get caught on (all the hardware's concealed up under the corner gussets). My horses have a knack of getting into trouble. I spent the weekend digging up water pipe and repairing. The horses kicked over a freeze-proof hydrant and broke it off below grade. I repaired that and worked on welding up a stanchion to prevent a repeat.