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What Keeps Me Out of the Workshop
awemawson:
Nicely tucked away in the 'delivery ward' we went to bed thinking all was well. In the night the wife woke me worried about the strength of the wind - certainly is sounded a good gale force.
So 3 am found us wrestling with a tent that had pretty well completely deflated encompassing Ewe and Lambs in a flapping shroud, while the wind drove rain horizontal - not a nice situation. I started up the '140 cfm road compressor' that we inflate it with, but the punctures were too large to make any progress. We managed to get her reasonably secure in one remaining corner, lashing the rest of the canvas down any which way to prevent it taking off like a hang glider :bugeye:
We crawled back to bed and I spent the little remaining dark hours wondering what the heck I was going to do with the other Ewes and lambs as they popped out.
I think that what had happened was an inflated tube had chaffed against a sheep hurdle, puncturing it, and then progressively more and more got holed as it collapsed onto the other hurdles.
awemawson:
The Ewe and her lambs survived the night.
What to do :scratch:
Lots of possibilities came to mind but none could happen fast enough. The only practical solution was to clear out a lean too that I have on the side of my workshop. It held 10 'jumbo bags' of dry logs, fork lift truck, concrete mixer, vibrating road roller and all the sort of junk that gets piled into places. A good days work saw it cleared out and stalls set up ready for the next birth, and the tent dismantled and packed away until there is time to see if it is repairable.
Unfortunately this now means that each time we have a new birth (9 so far, 27 to go if the scanning is accurate) I have to take a tractor and stock trailer across two fields to collect her and probably return an earlier birth to the orchard to make room for the next patient - and as the ground is still VERY soft this is churning up the fields rather badly.
Spent today stacking the logs in the wood store so at least they are out of the way :thumbup:
:bang: So not much workshop time :bang:
hermetic:
bad luck with the tent andrew, i feel for you. and that is definitely a farm run by an engineer! Some of the farms I used to work on installing dryers and electrical equipment were hell holes. I love those detached Maison de Cochon!!
Phil
East Yorkshire
vtsteam:
You've been a busy man, Andrew! :bugeye: :bugeye: :bugeye: :beer:
Ginger Nut:
I bet your shed looks a real Pig Stye :lol:
Nice job soon you'll have fresh rashers n crackling
Lamb's too :bow: not sure how you fathered that one :clap: Will you end up with a woolly jumper from the fleece?
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