Man, I stacked a few as they would be when building and its just awesome to look at. Sure hate being laid up at this stage. Its sure going to put a crimp in things now.
I tried an experiment on some grayed lumber I had sitting around. One of the end of my cedar logs stayed uncovered and grayed up. I know there's a product that is suppose to remove the gray, but I'll have a whole bunch of these by the time I get to using them so I tried an experiment with some common household bleach. Presto! This is incredible!!!!
I just applied it straight out of the bottle, with a cheap paint brush and rubbed it in with the bristles for a few seconds. Next I tried it on some birch ends that were left uncovered. Oh..... these were milled in January of this year...... some 8 moths ago.
For the longest time I wished I could think of something to do with the tree tops, that were too small to be sawed up into wall logs, or boards and...... duh...... hit me like a brick. Just saw them into 4x4's, and cut them to length! The goats gets the bows. They love cedar!!
With winter coming, and the goats possible confined, I figured I'd give them a bit more room and add on the back. Geez.....I really didn't want to do all this before the house and shop were done, but gotta make the Mrs. happy ;-)
Plus, I found something to do with those cedar 4 x 4's I just milled. The add on is really no big deal, but added so much room. We had 1 stall for the large Goat (Sarah), and a "Kid" pen for the two little ones. The expansion was to Sarah's pen that can easily handle all 3, and allows me to section off during the winter so that some sections can dry out as they become confined due to the weather. They have so much room now, that playing is the top order of the day
My wife standing in the kid pen
Here's a shot looking out from the addition. The kid pen is on the right, and pasture door is on the left with an isle by the windows, that connects the chicken side, through a door. Its pretty neat having sawn all this wood right from the lot with the Logosol.
by separating the kids from the older goat, everyone is able to eat what they are suppose to, but not without Mamma supervising and giving everyone attention.
Speaking of the chickens....... meet Bandit and Elvis
Now the barn isn't anything to brag about like it was some elaborate work of art. Its just a shelter for some critters that serves the purpose and built totally from the lumber I harvested, and basic tools.
