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Aaron, some more pic of calf sheds

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easy to move just a cable welded to some U rods welded to the heavy well casing frame, see corner is angle iron to keep cows from rubbing siding off
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top just bolted to angle iron that welded to pipe
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corner and sides are the same angle iron on pipe bolted to lumber screw on metal siding.
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single pipe gate
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was -20 yesterday morning only one calf inside , snowing heavy this morning and shed had lots of calves inside.
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I know I am not aaron, but hadda take a look at your sheds....pretty darned nice!!! However, when did you folks get all the snow??? :shock: The mountains around here still have lots, but the valley where we reside is bare!!! :?
 
ranchwife said:
I know I am not aaron, but hadda take a look at your sheds....pretty darned nice!!! However, when did you folks get all the snow??? :shock: The mountains around here still have lots, but the valley where we reside is bare!!! :?
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this is a snow hole, 5 to 6 months with snow cover :shock:
suppost to be about 125% snow pack this year.... but with all the years of drought even 30 year average will be high....
used to be nothing but draft horses and slieghs to feed with about everybody gone to 4 wheel drive tractors and round bales, some have a cat to dig out after a really bad storm but if you can get to your feed ground you can feed..
 
Do you have to ancor them down??? I would face them south so that the sun can keep them as sanitary as possible. We got 3" of rain in about an hour with high winds last night and if they were not tied down they would have been in the next county.

I do feel they would be a great asset in your weather and it looks like you are doing a great job keeping them clean.
 
Thanks Jody, definately some good sturdy units. All the angle shots work real well. Now just got to figure out if I can hatch something up that will even look half as nice. One thing I think I would add is a couple tow rings, or something similar, to the bottom casing on the backside, so you could easily pull it away with a chain attached. I like the fact of having an open front with no bottom casing being able to catch on to old bedding when you move the shed.

Now you said in the other post, that the guy used schedule 80 (maybe 40) pipe for the upright and top. What is the diameter on the bottom, uprights and top? I am thinking about 3-4 inch on the bottom and 2 inch on everything else, but then I look at your pics a 2nd time and I am not quite sure.

Thanks again. :D
 
Can't tell if they are tied down or not. We built a couple of nice sheds out of steel well casing and tin. Told the guys to make sure they were tied down and even gave them cable and clamps to do it with. (They said the wind hardly ever blew from the south.)

Anyway. a gust of wind came up and blew both of them over. We got to build them again!!. Never hurt the frame, but tore the tin and roof up enough that we redid them.

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Aaron said:
Thanks Jody, definately some good sturdy units. All the angle shots work real well. Now just got to figure out if I can hatch something up that will even look half as nice. One thing I think I would add is a couple tow rings, or something similar, to the bottom casing on the backside, so you could easily pull it away with a chain attached. I like the fact of having an open front with no bottom casing being able to catch on to old bedding when you move the shed.

Now you said in the other post, that the guy used schedule 80 (maybe 40) pipe for the upright and top. What is the diameter on the bottom, uprights and top? I am thinking about 3-4 inch on the bottom and 2 inch on everything else, but then I look at your pics a 2nd time and I am not quite sure.

Thanks again. :D
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Do you have to ancor them down??? I would face them south so that the sun can keep them as sanitary as possible. We got 3" of rain in about an hour with high winds last night and if they were not tied down they would have been in the next county.

I do feel they would be a great asset in your weather and it looks like you are doing a great job keeping them clean.
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The bottom pipe more like 5 inches with a 3/8inch to 1/2 inch wall so they are pretty heavy. yes every thing else is 2 inch pipe. We usually place the open side to the east, sometimes Southeast. Usually not much wind here but usually comes from the west. I never tied one down and one is over 20 years old that my brother uses all summer and most the winter as a garage and its opened to the north.
if you look really clse in the 3rd picture you can see a cable thats hooked thru 2 u shaped rods weldes to the bottom frame the white spot on front was wear there was a hook that held it up when not pulling the shed.
Great thing about no bottom is easy to clead just drag it to a new spot.
 
Any of you guys ever use large culvert cut in half and turned on edge for a shed? The supply shop I work at in town has some that was ordered for a guy, then changed his mind about it. It was 6' diameter by 20' long, then cut in half. They offered it to me pretty cheap, b/c we can't return it being that it was cut in half as a custom order. I don't need it. With calving in June/July now, there's no need.

But, I'm not sure what it would be worth as a shed. I know what it cost to get the darn stuff here. :shock: I was thinking about buying it, then reselling it. Any takers? :lol:
 
I purchased several 12' diameter by 16' tall water tanks at a state auction and cut them down the sides and cut one end out making two 12' by 16' sheds that are 6' high in the center.

I sold them to the local hog farmers and they have worked great for several years. It sounds like the material is smaller and I'm not sure what they could be used for.

I even had one young man buy one and put it up on two rows of railroad ties and is using it for a garage for his compact car.
 
I have 4 of those Scour factories for sale give me a wooded pasture anyday no thank's to those sheds.
 
Denny said:
I have 4 of those Scour factories for sale give me a wooded pasture anyday no thank's to those sheds.
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haven't had scours since I moved calving from April to March.... bug don't live on packed snow and ice... and there no floor in these sheds... we move them every other day.....
Pluse we group the calves in 10 day to 2 week birth groups, so older calves are never with younger calves . Have been calving out 75% to 80% in the first 22 days too.....
 
We had wooded pasture in W. Mt. right under a big hill, really good protection, and had the sickest calves ever. When we moved here (pretty flat, open country) and got on the right mineral program, it didn't matter where the calves were, they didn't and don't get sick.

We have a lot worse weather here, and we use calving buildings similar to what is being talked about here for the calves to get into. I am a firm believer of a good IMMUNE SYSTEM. When you have the immune system up to par, it doesn't matter one bit where the calves are. We have not doctored for scours for years. Our calves get stressed pretty good in this SE Montana weather and they never look back. Used to be when any little thing happened we had sick, and very sick calves.
 
the only problem I have now with those calves older calves is as the snow melts and they are on my hay meadows is endotoxcimia, (over eating, purple gut) have saved calves with big doses of anti toxin and penicillin both sub -q and oraly, along with caster oil or charcoal oraly. Try to get everything branded and vaccinated before it becomes a problem. Have vaccinated new calves with vision C-D and that helped.
but like faster horses, mineral, keeping calves in age groups, no bare ground, and scours vaccinated cows.... I don't see scours very offten any more
 

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