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Pictures?finally making goat shelter. I put 3 pallets x 4 pallets, on one 4 pallets side I put 1 foot (cut) pallet piece to make sloped roof. I used metal rafters and put wooden boards on top to connect them and keep tin roof tight.
finally making goat shelter. I put 3 pallets x 4 pallets, on one 4 pallets side I put 1 foot (cut) pallet piece to make sloped roof. I used metal rafters and put wooden boards on top to connect them and keep tin roof tight.
Pictures?
I am not a technology person. I use laptop and have no pics here.
not my pic but this style, only closed with door.
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That is fine!I am not a technology person. I use laptop and have no pics here.
not my pic but this style, only closed with door.
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That would make a nice shelter for your goat(s). Looks not too hard to build. What are you going to use for the roofing?
I like your new leaf bin idea!More Storage Options for Winter Leaves
Turning the clock backwards, some of you may remember the conversation about making a pallet wood stackable tiers compost bin. They are very easy to take apart and move, as compared to say a full sized pallet wood compost bin screwed together. I liked the idea of the tiered system so much that I built my own stackable tiered compost bin even though I had no use for it at that time.
Mainly, it was a good exercise for me to learn how to build stackable tiers out of pallet wood that had different thicknesses, and would therefore throw off the measurements for the tiers to stack one into another.
Normally, we measure our stuff on the outside dimensions, because when we use standard wood, the wood is all the same thickness, and it will all be the same inside dimensions as well. However, when working with pallet wood planks, you might have boards anywhere from 3/8 an inch to 3/4 inch in width. When you only measure the outside dimensions, you will discover that the inside dimensions change depending on the boards you use. In other words, the tiers will not stack.
Anyways, I figured out how to measure the inside dimensions so all the tiers would fit one into another no matter what the thickness of the pallet wood planks I used was.
Here is a picture of my completed pallet wood stackable tiered compost bin sitting out back not being used for anything...
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Each one of those ~4-inch tiers can be lifted off and put aside. It is not one connected pallet 4 feet tall.
I thought to myself that bin system would be great to hold leaves for the winter right next to my chicken run. I could fill it up with leaves this fall. In the winter, I would take out leaves as needed to toss into the chicken run. I could easily remove one tier at a time as the level of leaves inside the bin goes down. That way, I won't have to go dumpster diving late in the winter or early spring when the leaves might be almost all used up.
This evening, I moved that stackable compost bin over to the chicken run fence...
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I will start filling that bin up this weekend. With my grass collection bins on my riding mowers, it won't take very long to fill it up. But I expect the stackable compost bin by itself will hold more than enough leaves for my winter use.
So, I think I found a good use for that stackable pallet wood compost bin. The best thing is that if I do not like it there for any reason, it will be easy to relocate somewhere else.
A few days ago, I mentioned that I was going to use my pallet wood chicken wire protective cages for my raised beds as leaf storage for the winter. I will still do that as well as I already filled one of them with leaves. But now I think those protective cages will be more or less considered my secondary storage option. I have lots of leaves, so I will be able to fill all of them up if I want...
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As a chicken owner and a gardener, I have learned that you can never have too many leaves for use for something, somewhere, at some time in the future. Nature's gift to me!