hey I just want to share with you guys my method
for uh mucking out the barn and cleaning it up getting ready for winter stay tuned
hello welcome back to Pine Meadows hobby Farm I'm your host Jerry Hansen I've gotta muck out
the barn get the Stalls cleaned out and get ready for winter get fresh bedding down for the girls
and go from there
I piled all the stuff next to the barn and that way I could
just come up here with the tractor and scoop it up and make a new compost pile
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it was quite a pile that I ended up with to bring down here to my compost area it'll take some time
for this to compost but uh with the tractor it makes the job so much easier and all I have to
do is every couple of weeks is go in there with the tractor and turn it and keep it turned so it
composts really well and to this compost pile I'm going to add chicken manure and rabbit poo other
organic material to let it compost now that I got it all cleaned up and moved away I'm gonna go
ahead and grab the vacuum cleaner shop vac and the pressure washer and we're going to pressure wash
the slab on the outside now this slab when I built it I built it where it's nice and rough
surface so the cement slab will automatically keep the Hooves of the goats ground down
so uh I don't it reduces the amount of hoof trimming I have to do so now that I've got it
all pressure washed I also pressure washed their uh their uh water container that way it's nice and
clean not sanitized but it's clean and I'll just take the vacuum and go inside and vacuum what I
can out of the inside and scoop out some extra stuff because mind you earlier I cleaned out
all the stuff that was in there we got that down into the compost pile but this stuff I'm going to
go ahead and run the pressure washer inside get it all loosened up and then vacuum it with this shop
vac and get it cleaned up on the inside and then ready to lay new clean dry bedding down in here
so I'm going to get my ladder out of the way set it outside because I want to clean the
floor in here I just got a sweep up scoop out and I'm not going to pressure wash this side
of it because it doesn't need it I just it's basically brought brush away with the broom the
spider webs but here's some Pine shavings I'm going to put down on the stall uh floors okay
that should do it
okay now to clean this area up
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I might as well just paint the barn or paint the trim over the barn and paint the bow door
I have the paint on my inventory so I'll go ahead and do that right now
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and the doors painted
doesn't that look nice better and that is my method of cleaning my barn uh getting it ready
for the winter I have uh an event expected coming December anyway I'm your host Jerry
Hanson this is Pine Meadows hobby Farm where Frugal Homestead Tech tie in the Cascade ranges
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