Bruce
Herd Master
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.
			
			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.
 
					
				 
 
		 
 
		 
 
		 
 
		 
 
		 
 
		 ) 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.
) 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.
 
 
		 
 
		 
 
		

