I took the day off today so we could go back down to Liberty and pick up the rest of the gates. The guy at Tartar Gate Co. scratch and dent yard was keeping watch for the ones we needed. He held them for us until we could get back down there today. We should have everything we need to finish the new pasture and a bonus as well.
We drove through
Lancaster, KY and they had these fall flowers all around their town square. It was very pretty.
I made a frame out of 2x4s to support the 16' gate. It was sitting on the closed tailgate all the way back until we got to the railroad crossing in Winchester. The bump at the crossing made the tailgate come undone and drop down. Fortunately we had tied the whole load to the truck, nothing fell out. It was too heavy to lift so we just strapped it in and drove the short distance home with it like this. We'll need to get some way to lock the tailgate if we try that again.
We have six more corral panels now. They are all factory seconds like the gates. Usually you have to search for the defects.
The 16' gate is the "bonus", it will be on the driveway down by the road. The plan is to get an electric opener for it. The 14' is for the creek bottom access below the driveway bridge. The two twelve footers will go across the bridge. The 10' will replace the green 7 bar that currently accesses the cattle pasture. We got these wire gates to keep sheep in and dogs out.
We had four hens and a drake left,but we gave two of the hens to Nelson. One of ours started laying eggs again so we let her keep them. She has about 16 in the nest. We ate the last set she produced.
We opened the duck pen so they could go free range. They flew right down to the back pond and have been using it ever since.
They swim in it and feed along the shore.
We like them much better this way. Well, not as good as with dumplings but still better than when they were trashing the barn.
Hildie getting groomed. She had burdocks and dingleberries.
She's a happy cow.
Lisa's pet bunny.
The one with small ears.
We got some hydrants installed.
It will be nice to have water in the winter. Mike was pretty good on the excavator. He dug around the phone wire and never touched it.
One is over next to the cattle water tank.
They loaded the extra dirt on the truck. I put it in the erosion area next to the driveway.
The other hydrant is down by the bottom pasture.
Lower hydrant.
Upper hydrant.
I got to meet Lisa's pet bunny. It has small ears.
It was windy and the horses were standing against the barn with their butts in the wind.
A mountain road in Menifee county with fall color. There wasn't as much color in the higher elevations.
We talked to Dan, the man who took Darryl's intellectually challenged offspring, to ask him if he wanted to buy Tilly's girl and her lamb. He has sheep too and liked the look of the dorpers. He wanted to buy them so we said we could breed her first so he'd have a spring lambing.
We put the goat gopher on the small trailer and loaded them up. We'll need to strap it down better if we take it down the highway like this.
Lisa was giving Speedy a talking to for rearing up at her. I'm sure he just wanted a hug.
It was quite an event to have all this activity in the pasture.
That's Duane sniffing Tilly's girl. The lamb is only 3 months old and is still nursing. Duane wasn't interested in her. He was still chasing the ewe around when we left.
We drove through Lancaster, KY and they had these fall flowers all around their town square. It was very pretty.
I made a frame out of 2x4s to support the 16' gate. It was sitting on the closed tailgate all the way back until we got to the railroad crossing in Winchester. The bump at the crossing made the tailgate come undone and drop down. Fortunately we had tied the whole load to the truck, nothing fell out. It was too heavy to lift so we just strapped it in and drove the short distance home with it like this. We'll need to get some way to lock the tailgate if we try that again.
We have six more corral panels now. They are all factory seconds like the gates. Usually you have to search for the defects.
The 16' gate is the "bonus", it will be on the driveway down by the road. The plan is to get an electric opener for it. The 14' is for the creek bottom access below the driveway bridge. The two twelve footers will go across the bridge. The 10' will replace the green 7 bar that currently accesses the cattle pasture. We got these wire gates to keep sheep in and dogs out.
We had four hens and a drake left,but we gave two of the hens to Nelson. One of ours started laying eggs again so we let her keep them. She has about 16 in the nest. We ate the last set she produced.
We opened the duck pen so they could go free range. They flew right down to the back pond and have been using it ever since.
They swim in it and feed along the shore.
We like them much better this way. Well, not as good as with dumplings but still better than when they were trashing the barn.
Hildie getting groomed. She had burdocks and dingleberries.
She's a happy cow.
This is why we cut the 90 into two 45s. The original corner post was to be in this hole. That black thing is the edge of a leech chamber, part of the drain field. We were sure we were clear of it but it extended a little further down the slope than we thought. We guessed this was the bottom one so we should be clear now. Lisa caught it pretty quick and had me stop the auger so it just tore a small hole in the side. It shouldn't be too hard to fix.
