My Industrial Cabin Build

[WoodChuckDad]

 

[airbiscuit]

BTW, what are your observations after having lived in your house for a bit?

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Well we love it here. Love the space and freedom from close neighbors. I’m pretty happy with the results of our work. Once you move in, it’s hard to finish little things because there is so much outside work to do. We are picking one inside project a month to work towards this year or it will never happen.
We get crazy wind up here and it always makes me stare at the walls and think about how I could have made the house stronger. But so far, so good. It is easy to heat and cool. The electric bills are just over
$200/month in the summer and LP averages $100 month all year. We used floor heat three times the first winter and zero times last winter. There is always something that breaks or doesn’t work quite the way we planned and we are fixing or redesigning something, even if it is just a small thing. Soft closing hinge on a bathroom door, soft close slide on a kitchen drawer. And no matter if it is defect or misuse I am the fixit man.
One of the most important you can do is fix everything that comes up because if you let yourself get behind it grows and the task list becomes an iceberg.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

We got rid of our boys in July and had 9 babies on Sunday, and 5 more since then. I guess we should of gotten rid of the boys a week earlier!!!

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We had 7 babies that lived. One goat had Triplets . One was twice the size of the others and he didn’t make it. One nannie was a bad mom and let her baby flounder and die. She went in the freezer. Three does and 4 bucks. Only one 100% doe. And two 100 % bucklings. This years batch is cuter so hopefully that helps to sell them.

 

[CliffordK]

I think I've seen posts pre-sharpened with pointed ends. If not, you'll have to figure out how to put a point on the posts with a saw.

Dad liked to push the posts in with his tractor bucket. Usually filling the bucket with gravel or dirt. And some pounding. Eventually they bought a 3 point post pounder. Sometimes I think they would drill something like a 3" or 4" pilot hole, full depth, to get the post started.

 

[airbiscuit]

I think back at all those panels you installed in the build,and I remember you balancing on the stepladder. I am 75 years old and I wish I had your knees.

 

[EddieWalker]

We had 7 babies that lived. One goat had Triplets . One was twice the size of the others and he didn’t make it. One nannie was a bad mom and let her baby flounder and die. She went in the freezer. Three does and 4 bucks. Only one 100% doe. And two 100 % bucklings. This years batch is cuter so hopefully that helps to sell them.

My wife is an RN and when we first started having kids, she was in momma nurse mode to make sure they were all healthy and they all survived. The first one we loss was horrible for her. She did everything possible to keep it alive, but it wasn't meant to be. Over time, she's learned that some babies are just not going to make it. After ten years of this, we've learned that when a momma decides it's not going to keep its baby alive, it's not meant to be.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

My wife is an RN and when we first started having kids, she was in momma nurse mode to make sure they were all healthy and they all survived. The first one we loss was horrible for her. She did everything possible to keep it alive, but it wasn't meant to be. Over time, she's learned that some babies are just not going to make it. After ten years of this, we've learned that when a momma decides it's not going to keep its baby alive, it's not meant to be.

This particular momma was a bad mom last year too. My wife wanted to cull her this summer but I didnt. I think next time I will just follow her lead. We butchered her ourselves. .45 Acp hollowpoint thru the noggin and immediately lifted her on a gambrel with the tractor. The easiest gut job I have ever done. Fed the dogs the heart, liver, and all scrap meat. Fed them the spine and hip bones, all ribs and the leg bones. All that got thrown away was the head, entrails, and fur with hooves it was a good looking fur but I don’t have the inclination to scrape a hide

 

[EddieWalker]

I had one nanny that was always attacking the others and had to go. No reason for it, she was just mean. We've sold some of the boys, but there isn't much of a market for them like there is for girls. If they don't sell, they end up in the crock pot for dog food. We haven't eaten any ourselves. It seems that we have a greater need for dog food than anything else. We have 8 Akita's.