Monday, July 12, 2010

Let the barn building begin!

Yeah! We have finally started our barn! It was a hot hot hot weekend to begin, but its begun! We are looking at a foot print of 24x36, Two story for hay storage. The interior will have a feed storage area, goat medical room, a large goat stall and a nursery. We were able to set 6 of the main posts this weekend. I know its not much, but this is the hardest part, the building needs to be aligned properly to make the rest easy as pie, oh and did I mention that it was HOTT! Here are some pictures of our progress, there will be many more to come!

This is our before picture. This is the area between the girls pen and the boys.
This is our progress after day one! We have a grid laid out and 2 posts set.
Progress after day 2, we have 6 posts set! 6 more to go!

Our goal is to have the barn live-able for the winter. it will probably not be completed which is fine, but live-able is important!

4 comments:

Jennifer X said...

Is that just you and Chris doing that? Holy crap! Did we see that area?

Dragonfly Farms said...

Yes, it is just the two of us. This is the flat-ish area between the two pens. Where the goats attacked you for peanuts!

Jennifer X said...

How do you guys learn how to do that stuff?

Dragonfly Farms said...

patience! Chris is really good with construction. We build the bucks barn last summer. The new barn will just take up 4x the floor space and be two stories