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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: CarolineJ on January 10, 2016, 11:24:00 am
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Bit of a shock to see my yard had been remodelled when I got down this morning! Both horses fine, thankfully. Husband doesn't know whether to be annoyed it moved or chuffed that he built it well enough it's in one piece (albeit upside down in next door's field...)
(http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll302/cazmanian_minx/field%20shelter_zpslmltmmqc.jpg)
I'm just glad I didn't unload the 30 bales of hay I picked up yesterday into the hay shed, because the door's been ripped off and the whole thing is flooded.
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:o Oh my. I'm glad all beasties are okay :relief:
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Jings. :(
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Well done on it staying in one piece , will it take much to reinstate ?
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Well done on it staying in one piece , will it take much to reinstate ?
It's going to be getting it back over the fence that's the problem. It's wedged on a couple of trees and a wall, there's a big drop of about 6-8 feet on the other side. Think we're going to have to dismantle it somehow and pass it back over. No way we could get a crane to that spot, even if there was one we could hire/borrow locally. Nothing much we can do today, the wind's only just died down and it's sunset in an hour, so we'll scratch our heads overnight and have another look in the morning.
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We had to retrieve a field shelter in a similar situation earlier this year. By using rachet straps and a masted loader we did it without any damage. The danger point is when the point of balance changes, you have to adjust the straps to prevent it hitting the deck too hard. Here is a facebook link, contacting them they could send you the full sequence of photos https://www.facebook.com/241480616024103/photos/a.251660958339402.1073741828.241480616024103/381124275393069/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/241480616024103/photos/a.251660958339402.1073741828.241480616024103/381124275393069/?type=3&theater)
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Thanks Buttermilk - the problem is, it has to come up and over the fence and we have no way of getting any machinery down there, can't even get the quad down there without getting stuck at the moment.
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We won't be able to get quad/4x4/anything else down there unless it freezes and stays frozen for about a week, it's that swampy :( It's going to have to be ratchet straps around the strainer posts.
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If that's your idea of a bit windy, I wouldn't like to see very windy. Hope you manage to get it back over before too long. It would be a shame to have to dismantle it when it stayed together so well.
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You will notice we took the fence down and pruned some trees to get the shelter back, it was upside down in a ditch. That area is sand land so although April it was reasonably firm. I think that you will have to accept ruts and deal with them afterwards.
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Oh I don't give a stuff about ruts :D But it's down such a steep hill that machinery can only get down there, extremely carefully, when the ground is hard. In nearly a foot of sludgey mud, it has no chance, it would never get back up again.
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I have seen loaders push themselves out of some pretty steep and sticky places using the bucket.