Built the ponies a beach hut today!!!

[sophiebailey]

Stood in my field yesterday and realised that due to angle of the sun, after 12pm there's no shade in my field!! So off I went to timber merchants and today, with the help of my dad it took us 5 hours to build the ponies a little hut to stand it during the hottest part of the day!!

I'm quite proud of my innovation so thought I would share not too bad for a quick knock together and it's love and shady when you're under it!!

Charlie dog investigating the frame

Frame goes upppp

Roof goes on

Under the beach hut!!


No real point to the post just wanted to share the fruits of our labour!!

 

[Gypley]

That's fab! Now all you need is a little bar under there for them and cocktails served in coconuts

 

[sophiebailey]

Haha that's what my field owner said, looks like one of those little bars you get on the beach on holiday haha

 

[Adopter]

Great idea, lucky ponies to have such a concerned and thoughtful owner. My two spend most of the day standing in an old stone barn in our field, they do appreciate shade.

 

[BurlingtonBertie]

Brilliant- great idea. well done.

 

[CalllyH]

That's brilliant, at a later point you could put something else on the roof a bit stronger that would stop rain etc and leave it up.

 

[mandwhy]

That's lovely! I reckon it might need some side bars reinforcing it but you can add those in time if you feel they are needed! I have considered building something similar for when the trees are all bare and there is no shelter from the rain. You could stick some corrugated iron or plastic over and it'll be grand!

 

[sophiebailey]

The grand plan is to add to it as the summer ends (add sides and a waterproof roof) to make a weatherproof field shelter. Or maybe even build the same again next to it but with plastic roofing sheets an sides so I have a summer and a winter shelter ...... I'm un decided yet

 

[Mike007]

Inspired , a work of genius. Please report back on how the horses use it . Stuffy field shelters seem to get used as a last resort.

 

[sophiebailey]

Will do couldn't get them under it today even with temptation of feed bucket so hoping they will have a good sniff round it through the night and discover its not so scary!!

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

Very well done

Have you attached the feet to the ground? One of ours is an ar&e scratcher and would love those uprights!

 

[sophiebailey]

The posts are dug about 2feet into the ground and we've used a non-cement aggregate to try and hold them in place as Bailey loves nothing more than a good butt scratch!!

 

[x-di-x]

Love it... Been trying to come up with ideas or something cheap and cheerful in my field (refuse to go to great expense till I decide if I'm staying there or moving to a local livery yard).... Showed it to oh lastnight, its inspired him and now I've to phone the sawmills! (At last!)

 

[sophiebailey]

I brought the roof stuff from wilkos and the timber from my local merchants, all in all cost me £110 xx