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Baymule
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I thought about dragging them with the mule, but I’d like to lose about 5 pounds, was burning calories!!!
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canesisters
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Working with roughly 7000 meters of fiber each night, I do a lot of random knot tying. Of all the things I've had to teach my trainees, tying a knot is the one that continously eludes them. I think that it's the years & years of using haystrings for almost all repairs that got me those skills. 
Your shelter looks GREAT!!!! Somewhere I have a picture where I used feed bags to cover the wire door to my coop. It did indeed make a lovely, snug windbreak.
Yes, of course I remember your 'bit at a time' advice
. Good advice that's going to work well for us both 
Your shelter looks GREAT!!!! Somewhere I have a picture where I used feed bags to cover the wire door to my coop. It did indeed make a lovely, snug windbreak.
Yes, of course I remember your 'bit at a time' advice
. Good advice that's going to work well for us both 
Ridgetop
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I love hay strings. They come in all colors and southern California 4-H animal keeping areas are routinely held together and repaired with those colorful strings! LOL
We saved them for repairs and I brought a whole box of them with me to Texas since the rolled bales here don't have strings.
I have to spend actual money on zip ties!
We saved them for repairs and I brought a whole box of them with me to Texas since the rolled bales here don't have strings.
I have to spend actual money on zip ties!Mini Horses
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OMG.....life without hay string??? Well that repair material is a big part of hay value 
can't imagine the loss. I use it everywhere. We all do. I even have some long stuff that's used to tie the 21 bale bundles from a friend who buys trailer loads to sell. Mine is mostly blue or white.
can't imagine the loss. I use it everywhere. We all do. I even have some long stuff that's used to tie the 21 bale bundles from a friend who buys trailer loads to sell. Mine is mostly blue or white.
I have orange string that comes with my straw bales. I've been collecting it in a plastic grocery bag, hanging on a nail in the shed...OMG.....life without hay string??? Well that repair material is a big part of hay value
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Baymule
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Rain is supposed to start here around noon, all night and clear out tomorrow morning. High today is 40F and low tomorrow night is 34F. Tomorrow night around 8 or 9, I have to meet my DD and family at my sister’s house to get my granddaughters and their dogs. DD and husband are going to Spain and back on the 19th. We are going to swap vehicles, and I’ll come home with kids and dogs. At least the weather won’t be horrible, just cold. Saturday night it will drop back down to 28F and after that it will stay above freezing for the 10 day forecast.
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Baymule
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Peggy and Bennett gave me a partial roll of 4’ welded wire, so I used that this morning to cover the Red River panels as far as it went.
When I ran out of that, I used a 25’ roll of 2’ welded wire and that covered the rest up to the pallets.
That left the 2 panels on the other side of the gate. I had a scrap of sheep and goat wire, but it wasn’t long enough so I cut it lengthwise in half. It covered the two panels.
So now it is fenced from the hoop shelter to the side fence. It encloses the hoop shelter, the new Pallet Palace.
When I ran out of that, I used a 25’ roll of 2’ welded wire and that covered the rest up to the pallets.
That left the 2 panels on the other side of the gate. I had a scrap of sheep and goat wire, but it wasn’t long enough so I cut it lengthwise in half. It covered the two panels.
So now it is fenced from the hoop shelter to the side fence. It encloses the hoop shelter, the new Pallet Palace.
canesisters
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LOVE IT!!!!
You are so resourceful!
You are so resourceful!
