Inexpensive housing

Bruce

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Plus, you can move the hoop shelter OVER the round bale rather than trying to move 1,000 pounds of hay TO the shelter!

And yes, if too wide at the base in snow country, they may need a center support at each end with a ridge pole between them.
 

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I built a hoop coop, it was so easy! I love cow panels! Way to go @Ferguson K !! That makes a nice shelter for your animals!

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I love hoop style shelters! They're nice and inexpensive. It doesn't take much to throw them together and they're pretty easy to maintain and virtually undestructable. We've had trees fall on them and they pop right back up!!
 

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If your frugal(read as poor...like me...ok cheap like me :hide) We made a hoop barn on our last property but we wanted it tall enough for DH who is 6'4" and also to hold up to snow. So we drove T-posts into the ground and then slipped wooden pallet over the t-posts with the "decking" facing out, screwed those together and then ran one run of 1x4s around the inside top and bottom of the pallets. Then we took our cattle panels, put one end against the t-posts sticking up and bent the wire placing the other end on the opposite side with t-posts holding it in place, put on a few zip ties to hold the panels to the t-posts in a few spots. Then we took a roll over clothes line from the dollar store and made small loops over the lower wire of the panels and stapled the roop to the pallet decking...like rope hold downs. We covered the whole thing in a tarp. We ended up with a barn approx 7ft tall and something like 12 or 14ft wide. We didnt just slap the tarp on and use the grommets to hold it though...the wind would have shredded it. We wrapped the ends of the tarp around a board and then screwed that to the pallets so the tarp had even tension and the whole board held it on.

Something like this but with pallets and t-posts.
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While we are on the making things subject....anyone seen this yet?
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I've seen one similar, but it was just a three holder, I think. Looks like a good idea to me!
 

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I've seen one similar, but it was just a three holder, I think. Looks like a good idea to me!

i thought so too....that one feeds 8 you could make it double sided and feed 16 lol. So much easier then my method of trying to keep the ones not on the bottle off my head while i use both hands to feed two others lol.
 
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