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In 2009, we stepped up our goat infrastructure in a big way by building a proper barn in our goat pasture (previous to this we used Quonset-type huts like that seen here).

The basic concept was to build a barn that straddled our east and west goat pastures, which can be separated from each other by closing a gate. The central section of the barn is wide enough to store three round bales of hay side-by-side, and is as deep as it is wide. The main doorway was designed to be wide enough to roll a round bale through. The sides of the barn are enclosed shelters for the goats, one per pasture. Each shelter has a manger and a feed trough, both of which can be filled from the middle section, and is big enough to shelter about six goats.

Construction details can be found by clicking on the individual picures below.


Detail of how the headers were bolted to the inner posts of the center section of the barn using washers and 4.5 inch long, 3/8 inch diameter lag bolts that were countersunk about an inch.
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All posts for the outside walls of the side sections of the barn have been cut to exactly level height and have been mortised on the outside to accept the wall headers.
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The twin-two-by-eight header is installed on the outside wall posts of the side sections of the barn.
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The twin-two-by-eight header has been installed and bolted onto the outside wall posts of the side sections of the barn using washers and 4.5 inch long, 3/8 inch diameter lag bolts that have been countersunk about an inch. The twin-two-by-eight top-plate has been installed as well.
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Inside wiew of the header and top-plate for one of the outside walls of the side sections of the barn.
goatbarn_101009_d.jpg: 123 kb
Viewed from the north. The headers and top-plates have been installed for the walls for the center section of the barn, and installation of the framing for the walls has commenced.
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Detail of how the headers were bolted to the posts at the corners of the center section of the barn using washers and 4.5 inch long, 3/8 inch diameter lag bolts that were countersunk about an inch. Also shows how the two two-by-eights that formed the top-plate were overlapped at the corners.
goatbarn_101009_f.jpg: 143 kb
Framing for the walls, step 1.
goatbarn_100409_p.jpg: 263 kb
Framing for the walls, step 2.
goatbarn_100409_q.jpg: 236 kb
Framing for the walls, installed.
goatbarn_100409_o.jpg: 294 kb
Using two two-by-sixes to locate the centerline for the roof ridge beam, and to determine the actual angle of the two halves of the roof to verify the desired height of the ridge beam. The left half of the roof was 14.5 degrees, and the right half was 15.0 degrees.
goatbarn_101009_g.jpg: 209 kb
Detail: dropping a plumbline to mark the centerline for the roof ridge beam.
goatbarn_101009_h.jpg: 143 kb


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