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Having grown up and spent a good portion of my life in Pa, I have to question a pipe freezing in southern PA if it is buried three feet deep.

At my last farm in the Tamaqua area, I buried the...

IMHO, it depends on the intended barn use. If we are talking a storage barn, etc. then I would use trusses. For a horse barn, I would use rafters. Mostly, horse barns mean stalls which mean corner...

I put up a bit of fence at my new place for my horses this summer. Like my previous farms, I put up a high quality fence to keep my horses in and to keep my neighbors animals out.

Before the...

I can't see a payback. I had a boarding barn where I went with a 16' wide wash bay. I built a stub wall divider resulting in a "U" shaped configuration. That way, you could walk a skittish horse...

We had been discussing the problem with one of our feed suppliers. He came up with "shreds".

Basically, the same product but shredded only it has a bit of molassis added which older horses have no...

"Your feed store doesn't carry some type of meal with the same nutritional content?"

Without running out to the barn to check labels, offhand, I would say that the grains we are using have more...

We have a couple of hard to keep old mares that we feed alfafa/timouthy hay cubes to. One mare has few teeth and the other gags on baled hay. If we wet the cubes to soften them up, the mares waste...

Regardless of my log in name, we only have one quarter horse right now. A 24 year old Impressive bred bucksking dun stud.

The other eleven are all Arabians. One stud, two geldings and eight mares....

I have only ever seen slabs poured after the building was erected.

I have gotten a few Mcfeelys catalogs and they do have a wealth of info. I don't recall ever ordering from them though. I tend to grab things last minute from the big box even though the choices are...

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There are two types of drivers. One has a 1/2" square drive and the other has the 1/4" hex drive. I worked with a friend that had a Dewault 18V 1/2" square driver. It worked great for running lags...

I got to use the impact driver using a variety of screws and bits adding some sqirt boards to my barn. I tried it with the #2 phillips, a #2 square and a #25 torx bit with screws ranging from 2.5" up...

Pole barn on a foundation? No problem. The posts are secured to the foundation with "L" shaped brackets. The anchor bolts must be accurately placed. Use PT lumber for a sill same as standard...

My favorite building magazine had a timely article about these powerful tools in the latest issue. Since I have been doing a lot of fastening and still have a lot more to do working on my barn, I...

I use a Ruger 77 22-250 with the heavy barrel on a bidpod. I also use the Hornady Varmit Specials with the red tip.

They do have a nasty look about them don't they?

Only problem is, I don't get...

We are planning on installing some horse fencing at our new to us property. For the parimeter, we want to go with the Hotcote. For those that may not have seen this type of fencing, it is tensile...

My wife and I moved to Kentucky for several reasons. We wanted to cash in on the equity we had in our PA farm and downsize. We also wanted to escape the escalating taxes and find somewhat milder...

The doors will have horses passing through the opening so I don't want to put anything more than say a concrete keyway to guide them when closed.

National has something that looks like an upside...

I resorted to a contractor to help me with some changes to my barn due to time constraints. One of the changes was to add a set of sliding doors with four panels. (double track, two panels on each...

Having recently located from PA to KY, my wife and I are building stalls with tongue and groove lumber to accomodate our horses. On our last barn project, we had brushed three coats of Cabot Harbour...

Re: radon fan - Fantech. My present home is the second that I had with radon. Both have used the Fantech fans, the current one being mounted on the outside of the house and running steady for over...

Around my area, straw is almost and sometimes more expensive than hay is due to being used to start grassy areas by developers.

When the mill where my sawdust came from burned almost two years...

I have mats on top of stone dust and bed with sawdust. We only have one stall that I would consider smelly and that is mostly when we clean it.

That stall belongs to one of my stallions who...

We lost our favorite barn cat Friday morning. "Angel" was a mixed breed long hair, all black. We had found her one very cold February morning in the hay trying to get warm.

She was a rack of...