The Farmers Mart Oct-Nov 2018 - Issue 59 | Page 50

50 FARM BUILDINGS & EQUIPMENT
OCT/NOV 2018 • farmers-mart.co.uk
WHAT COULD BE SIMPLER
THAN A FARM BUILDING?
Why do most people get this
wrong? Sure farm buildings
are simple, everyone can
do a basic building, and
we probably all have.
THE biggest problem with getting a good
job done comes down to a bit of time and
money.
In this instance time should play the big-
gest role, because if you are controlling
the job yourself then you probably
aren’t paying yourself anyway. So
if you spend extra time getting it
right it probably doesn’t cost you
anything. Yet the benefits can be
far reaching.
Simple mistakes are made,
especially late in the year:
“We are desperate to get some cows
undercover”.
“I need the cheapest option to get some
cattle off the land”.
“We have a gap here close to the house,
it’s wasted space, we might as well use
it for now, and we’ll use it as a garage/
workshop later”. Yet mostly once cattle go
into a building it is very difficult to turn the
building back to anything other than cattle
housing.
Did you stop and think is it in the right
place to get rid of all the muck?
Does the ground slope away from or to
the house?
Water runs downhill naturally, so does
dirty water and muck.
With this adage in mind and a bit of
thought, a simple well designed farmyard
‘ Just because you wear
wellington boots to
walk through the cattle
field and gateways
doesn’t mean it’s
alright to need them
around the farmyard
’