{"id":6193,"date":"2014-05-25T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T07:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2014-06-02T16:05:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T08:05:38","slug":"sheep-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/sheep-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheep Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140525_115512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6157\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140525_115512-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"20140525_115512\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140525_115512-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140525_115512.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There are no trees in the paddock and the shade from the verge trees will not reach the paddock in summer so we built a shade structure. \u00a0(We will be planting some trees, but it will be 3 years before they provide any meaningful shade). \u00a0The other benefit of the shelter is that the roof will collect water for the water tank over winter which will reduce the number of times we have to refill the 1000l pod. \u00a0 We measured some of the jarrah beams that <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/slabbed\/\">we milled<\/a>\u00a0two years ago and two at 3.1m were used \u00a0as the starting point for the length. \u00a0We were lucky to find a couple of purlins at 2.4m\u00a0whcih defined the width. \u00a0 I dug the holes for the bush poles with the augur on the tractor and luckily the bend in a couple of the bush poles made up for my slightly out of square set out. \u00a0 \u00a0With some discarded pallets for walls, 3 sheets of tin from a neighbour and left over guttering from the house, just like the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/13\/view-from-the-goat-shed\/\">goat shed<\/a>, it was a very economical build. \u00a0One of the joys of <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/06\/recycle-reuse-repurpose\/\">recycling<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/30\/use-what-you-have\/\">using what you&#8217;ve got<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no trees in the paddock and the shade from the verge trees will not reach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm","category-property","category-sheep"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140525_115512.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}