NH Homesteader- turkeys!

[Latestarter]

YAY! Stock up!

 

[Green Acres Farm]

Woo-hoo! $3/bale in the field, baling next week.

No fair!!!!

 

[NH homesteader]

Haha! Well it's grass hay but it is good quality grass hay. And my husband is buddies with all the farmers it seems. All the "good old boy" types anyway

 

[NH homesteader]

Also we can get by with 200 bales, probably not fair either?

 

[Latestarter]

Computing space requirements... yup, need a bigger barn!

 

[NH homesteader]

I don't want to talk about storage. I don't have a barn

 

[Baymule]

Do you have a garage/carport? our car and truck sit outside because I have lumber stacked under the carport.....
That is a fantastic price for hay. In 2011, Texas had a drought and there was no hay to be had. It was hard to watch trees dying that were 50+ years old, it took so long to grow them and a season to kill them. We had 2 months of 100* heat. We were lucky to find round bales for only $80, most went for $120 and up.

 

[NH homesteader]

Well... Currently I am stacking hay in my husband's antique sawmill... Uh the one he really wants to get running but he can't because there are piles of hay on top of it...

I'm looking at shelter logic shelters but they're expensive and I don't know if they can truly take a NH winter.

 

[Baymule]

Well... Currently I am stacking hay in my husband's antique sawmill... Uh the one he really wants to get running but he can't because there are piles of hay on top of it...

I'm looking at shelter logic shelters but they're expensive and I don't know if they can truly take a NH winter.

Girlfriend, YOU NEED A SCRAP PILE!!!!! I cannot stress this enough. Scrounge. Do not drive past a construction site with those long boxes they throw all their scraps in. You would not believe what gets thrown away. I have dragged out 20' 2x6's, just had to pull the nails out. Also, I get all kinds of good deals on the reject rack at Lowes. It is usually half price or less. I have built all kinds of stuff with reject or used lumber. We built a 36'x36' barn with mostly scrounged materials. It hurt my feelings when I had to go buy NEW 2x6's for the rafters because I didn't have enough. We did bite the bullet and bought new tin for the roof and sides.

 

[NH homesteader]

Haha oh, we had one. But it's built two outbuildings for the goats, two chicken coops and a pig hut. My husband is a major scrounger.

But wow you are seriously better at it than us. A barn??? Wow!

Oh and yes, I get the irony that my hay is being stored on top of the sawmill which could build me a barn. I know...