Thursday, January 11, 2018

Exterior

The exterior walls are mostly complete, we still need doors (dutch) and trim. There isn't anything forming walls around the aisle doors, there will eventually be something. The far end, out towards the back pasture, will have a full size door.


This is the inside with 3/4 inch plywood up on the walls. This is what was used on the old barn and it works, horses can't kick through it. The 1x2's leaning there are used to hold the stall dividers in place.

Just like this

And here we have the stall mats installed in this stall. I purchased 13 total for these 2 stalls, 1 will be used to cut up so we can fill the holds where the mats are about 6 inches too short.

 Outside each stall there is 2 feet of concrete for the horses to stand on when they want to be outside but not get rained on. Wifi LOVED this at the old barn.
We will be putting fences out here so they can be contained but still able to walk around. Joey will get stocked up if he's not able to move at night.


I cleaned up the barn last night, swept the aisle and stalls, picked up all the trash, put all the wood pieces and scraps in proper piles. I put my small cart in the finished stall just so its out there but not in the way.
For Christmas the house 'gave' the barn a bunch of utility hooks
like this one, I'm going to find the best location where they are easily accessible but not unsightly to hang all my barn tools. Broom, manure forks, shovel, rake. I had a spot for a dozen tools at the old barn and I brought those boards to the new farm but they are still lost.

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