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good morning youtube so that is our uh a little morning routine with the dogs
uh i come out and they always want to you know wrestle right after uh
a good breakfast so now that that's out of the way i got the generator fired up ready
to uh charge the house and uh because it's a little cloudy today i figured uh
what a good time to do some uh macgyvering should i say now if you haven't been following me the
past couple days i've been uh getting ready uh for our ghosts that are coming
tomorrow and putting up a little fence barbed wire uh converting a old fuel building
uh into the goat house or goat shed whatever you guys want to call it if you haven't been following
i'll leave a little link up here so that you can check that out and uh one of the things that
we're having a issue with uh past couple days is figuring out how we're gonna get the goats up here
being that this is the last bit of livestock that we're gonna bring up here to uh get
our um homestead fully functional uh we were thinking like do we go and rent a stock trailer
um how do you how do people get get their goats up and uh from what we've been looking at many people
that don't have a livestock trailer they kind of macgyver their own little way of getting them up
there either converting a trailer that they have um into some sort of pen that they can hold them
and being that i only have a cargo trailer uh that's not gonna work because i don't think
that's enough air and i can't really keep my eye on them as we're traveling and some of
these roads out here are really rough this time of the year and the ruts are just huge
some people prefer to toss their goats in the back seat and just lay down a tarp with a little
bit of hay and do it that way now we could do that but it's not really economical or smart
because we're going to be getting three goats from the looks of it and i don't think that's
really going to work in the back by myself because kimberly's going to be staying home
uh and doing the work and looking over the house while i'm gone for the for the day picking up the
goats so one thing i came up with is uh i'm gonna build a little uh contraption in the back of the
pickup truck here using some good old-fashioned lumber that i found around on the homestead
now this is not gonna be a professional job by any means so i don't recommend you guys uh following
what i'm doing here i'm just showing you kind of what we have to deal with when you're living
out here and you're left with minimal resources to get the the certain projects or certain goals done
now i've run around the the homestead and found whatever wood that i had to get this build and
i've got some good long deck boards here that i'm going to cut up and those are going to be
my main braces and then i got some barn board here and some 2x4 back here that's been painted green
so i'm going to have that new and improved look for when i'm driving down the highway
um so what i'm gonna build is a cage in the back of my truck here so that i can get the three goats
in there and uh they're also gonna be contained they're gonna have lots of air and i can keep an
eye on them through the back window so that when i do go over those very rough patches of the road
that i can kind of gauge how the goats are reacting and how they're doing hopefully
they don't hurt themselves because i'm telling you there was a six mile stretch
there when we just were in town a couple days ago and uh it was pretty bad and
for an example of how slow we went it took us about two hours to do a hundred kilometers of road
uh and that's just a straight dirt road so you're really not moving that fast because the roads are
so bad and some of the ruts i'm telling you are probably about two and a half three feet deep
so if you don't have four wheel drive good luck so let's get this started i got the generator
running right now so i have some power here so that i can operate the good old skill saw
and what i've got is these uh planks here i got them marked up uh that they're gonna be
about six and a half feet long each so that's going to be my bottom rail and my top rail
and i got two of them so i got two for each side and i really didn't know how big to make this
um contraption uh because i'm not really sure how these uh how big the goats are and from
my understanding they're gonna be about a year old and so um i'm not expecting any more than
say 50 pounds for these goats but they could be up to 75 i don't know we'll find out now i
figured what i'm gonna do is these are my longest planks and because i need a top and bottom rung
no matter what and two sides the best way to do it is just to cut it in half so that would give
me six and a half feet from the back of the box to the front or wherever it ends up and then from
there i'm just going to make it as wide as the bed is itself or just in between the wheel well
and that way it's not impeding anything and then the top i'm just going to leave that open
and the side that's facing the the back of the cab i'm going to leave that open
because i will have the back of the cab um that close the box off from one side
so i technically only need to worry about three sides uh so let's get this uh uh all plugged in
and we're gonna start doing some cutting so what i did with these uh down pieces here is uh just cut
them in half into four foot pieces and then i also dropped it halfway down the board and the reason
i did that is because i want to have the maximum height in the bed so that the goats can't jump out
so if i gain a uh what's this here this is about three and three quarter inches so i'm gonna gain
three and three quarter inches on each side so that's about seven and a half inches altogether
so i'm sitting here screwing this in just looking at this wood and i'm pretty glad
that i'm just doing this with scraps because uh at the price of wood these days i'd probably be
looking at like a three thousand dollar job just to build bring my cat my goats over here so i'm
telling you i don't know how people are how people are actually building houses anymore
like a piece of plywood now three-eighths
or what was it that i saw three-eighths uh four by eight sheet of plywood now is a hundred dollars
like are you kidding me i found two four by eight pieces of uh of plywood yesterday and
they were half inch i thought i struck gold i should put them on kijiji there and retire
okay as i'm building this i'm also having some thoughts that the openings here are going to be
too big for the uh for the ghosts themselves so what i'm going to do is i'm going to add another
uh divider right down the middle here uh maybe i'll actually add two just to
block it off that much smaller and that way i'm safe uh no matter what so you know these things
aren't planned it's uh kind of a uh figure it out as you go like anything in life right
ah
all right so what i want to do now is uh let me get my pointing stick out here i'm gonna measure
from this side here over to this side here and that'll be uh my width that i'll have for that
and uh i'll use that on the same as the top even though that they're flaring out because that's
where they are butt up against the wheel wells as you can see on this side here so i just need two
pieces this way um for the top and bottom rungs and then i'm gonna see how i can figure out the uh
the rest of it okay so now i'm back after having to relocate the rain started coming pretty strong
there and then after i moved everything over i had to play where's my tape measure
have you ever uh done that you're so focused on a job you know where everything is and then
you have to pack up and move over and like reset and then next thing you know it's that one tool
that you need uh that's uh putting you back so went back in the house got a second tape measure
and as i'm coming out i see the one i was looking for anyway we got this uh
contraption made up here for the goat so i use the two by four here i use the um whatever this
is here this almost looks like a three by six here for the bottoms and then i used some plywood uh
uh just uh for the entrance here this is where i'm gonna load the goats up
so this piece here is just tacked up now i'm gonna pull that off goats are gonna go in and
then i'm gonna close this off and they can't come through i also had to add a piece at the top here
uh that just goes crossways that way it just kind of prevents the the box from actually
shifting and uh and twisting in the itself and then i also added at the back i added tie downs
uh one at the back at the bottom and then i put a ten thousand pound tie down over top and then uh
to the actual truck itself i think it's gonna work again this is not not a professional uh job here
but when you look at this it's got uh probably one two uh three four five different types of
wood so you have like i said a three by six which is a custom made piece you have two by four here
you have barn board which is specialty board and then you have uh this looks like 5 8 plywood uh
so if anyone's looking on a deal on lumber right now i could probably let this whole thing go for
probably like two grand because to be making it these days out of a store you're probably looking
about three thousand dollars i'm not going to include any of my time that i spent on this
i'll just call it two thousand dollars even and uh go from there but uh all jokes aside i'm gonna
kind of clean up in the shop now and then uh get ready to uh pack up for tomorrow and load
up these goats so stay tuned we're gonna go get these goats and uh see how this works out you see
that road that's what i gotta go down so uh i went into town and picked up the goats and oh hi tank
yeah i thought i had goats in there um oh oh the goats are in the backseat oh that's right
the cage that i built didn't work they were obviously um getting out of it they were
escaping as we were loading them um so i uh put tank in the back there and uh i got the
ride along here with me i got three of them back here with me two females and uh the male back here
all right anyways i'll see on the next video i gotta get down these uh good times here
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