My new barn. Happy face.........lol. I love to build things but I have to be cheap about it. This cattle panel/pallet/tin barn fits the bill. I spent 140 on new tin, I like new tin, it doesn't leak and that matters. I spent 20 on cattle panels because I bought the messed up ones from the co-op, hallelujah for discounted cattle panels. Pallets are free of course and I used some wood I had laying around along with free osb board that comes with the pallets. Ignore my mess, I'm working on the a fence as we speak. Like always I am terrible at taking pictures of the process. I get caught up in working and before you know it, I'm done and haven't took pictures. Poop. Here's the very beginning, I did get a picture of that. You will need to make 4 of these, 2 for each end. Use 3 inch screws and good luck, pallet wood is hard! After you make 4 pallet corners you place them where you want the corners of your barn to be, keep in mind how long your tin is.....You can't make it longer than your tin!! My tin is 12 foot but you could do 16 or 20. I would imagine you would need another cattle panel support in the middle if you op for that. Lay a cattle panel across 2 corners and wire the ends down. It would be easy with 2 people but is doable by yourself. The wood blocks is where I screwed through the tin and into the wood to make it secure. Once you have your cattle panels rainbowed over the corners add tin. It's that easy. Once again I wish I would have a took a picture of every step but it's pretty straight forward. Since I am using my barn as a bunny barn I will be covering the "triangle" areas with osb board and I will leaving the pallets where air can blow through. The idea is block the suns rays and still let the cool breeze blow in. Below are extra pictures of what I use this barn for. I use a old pre-fab chicken coop (from the dump) for my rabbit mommas to have babies in, I figure they deserve the extra space. I make my own hay feeders from left over wire, it's super easy and free considering I would be throwing the scraps away anyhow. I cut a hole in the side of my barn so dogs can sleep in there with out me leaving the door open.
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