Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Beamer's house

For those of you who, like me, love watching machinery at work (I like it better when I'm the operator!) I took a video today of moving Beamer's house to the new place. Ted and his buddies loaded it on a trailer and they used a mini excavator to unload it and pull/push it into its designated spot, facing east and overlooking the mare's pasture.
The first video is unloading and pulling it through a 12 ft opening in the fence. We have to put the wire up tomorrow so we had to get this done before that. There was only an inch or two to spare on each side.

My husband builds things right; this is a very stout building that will last for decades.



During the summer when Beamer gets to be pastured with the broodmares, Rosalee will get this pen. This will be Beamer's first year pasture breeding; I hope it goes well. The two mares he will be with should be able to keep him in line. I'm hoping to have him with them from May to the end of September. They should be well along in foal by then and he can have his nice snug house back for the winter. He loves his house.

10 comments:

Far Side of Fifty said...

Good job! It was fun to watch, Beamer will like his old house:)

Linda said...

Wow! That didn't look easy, but it is a solid building! Pasture breeding seems like a good way to do it--the natural way!

C-ingspots said...

Wow, that impressive! And that building must be solid to be moved like that.
If Beamer proves to be a gentleman, betting there won't be trouble. Nature's way afterall.

Sherry Sikstrom said...

good solid construction! Interesting that you will pasture breed next year>Is there a reason you are changing things up?

Shirley said...

Sherry- yes, I do have a reason for changing things up for Beamer. He is 15 now and no longer sound because of his arthritis, so I don't fear him getting hurt, as I think he has enough experience to stay out of the mare's way- which he demonstrated this year with a big sideways leap when Chino said no to him- and he will be with 2 mares that are accustomed to pasture breeding; as well, I will have enough room, finally, that he can be in with mares and still be able to get away from them if they put the run on him.

IanH said...

No video present. :-{

cdncowgirl said...

Things are sure coming together!

Buttons Thoughts said...

That is the way we do it too. We own lots of big machinery here on the farm to make life easier. Lucky Beamer. Hug B

aurora said...

And that's what we call the "built solid move" (spin off a local moving commercial series)! Love it when good things happen to good people!! No doubt the pasture breeding/turn out will also go well.

Shirley said...

Ian H- you have to click on it twice for the movie to play.