Farmyard Layout

awaywithyou

how many of ye guys are happy with ye're farmyard layout??

have ye the buildings where ye want them? or are yere buildings/sheds a bit scattered or spread out or whatever....

if ye were back again would ye organise it better even if it meant knocking a shed or two..

EpicPothole

awaywithyou wrote: »

how many of ye guys are happy with ye're farmyard layout??

have ye the buildings where ye want them? or are yere buildings/sheds a bit scattered or spread out or whatever....

if ye were back again would ye organise it better even if it meant knocking a shed or two..

I would have to say that I would be 95% happy with our layout and the size of our sheds, handling facilities etc. This is almost solely down to my father (cant take much credit as I'm only running it the last few years)
He had great awareness of 2 things when developing the farmyard. One being the "job process" eg how an every day job on the farm was going to be done, and layout the facilities required to allow it to be done as easily as possible. The other was, machinery was always going to get bigger!
Saying that, they're are alway improvements to be made.

i_steal_sheep

I wouldn't be the happiest with ours... The farmyards are, afterall, split across a National Primary Road - which makes things a wee bit awkward. Having said that, I'm happy with what we've got in each yard.

Planners!

bbam

Ours was developed in 74/75 so I had no input into the layout.. Having said that I've only made minor changes since with the biggest being the addition of a gate between the old and "new" yards, (new being 1975).

My biggest gripe is a huge walled open dung pit, 40*80 and 8 feet deep, walled on three sides... I hate it but at the moment there are no funds to do anything with it..

bob charles

Layout okay but if we were to develop again would have set it further from public road and houses.

blue5000

Mine is a very old yard, confined a bit by old walled gardens which we have made a few 'holes' in over the years, but it woks ok for us. Access is tight for trucks though. Cattle handling is fine. Some older buildings need re roofing but I simply haven't got any spare cash.

Tipp Man

Ours is a bit of a mess - our own fault really as we never sat down and planned it properly.

The quality of the housing is very good just the layout is wrong

Dozer1

Same here, have 3 small yards as farm is split up, main yard is right beside the road, very old buildings, can barely get a tractor around the sheds, put up a new shed myself last year, left loads of space to "develop" in the future. I think in future i'll be knocking the old yard in time.

restive

Mine is really old as in the same layout they were using in 1900. the gable of the house opens onto the yard with the cattle crush at the front corner of the house (now moved) and a hay shed at the back corner. What used to be old cow houses pig house is now only good for seasoning wood.

Eventually i will have to start fresh with a new yard!

Dont be daft

Have to say the oul' lad had his thinking hat on when he developed ours.

Nothing major I'd change. As some of the lads mentioned the size of modern machinery has caught it out.
Would love to have one of the big Keenan feeders but it wouldn't be able to swing into some of the sheds. Would mean knocking stuff down to make it happen.

After that its just small things like one of the sheds has agitation points inside the door.
Would like to modernise and expand the sick-bay.

But honestly, wouldn't swap our yard with anyone.

Suckler

Septic tank from the house is in the way a bit; Saying that, when I got it, no real yard - Hayshed + a small cow house and pen. Gradually geting there though.

JohnBoy

bbam wrote: »

My biggest gripe is a huge walled open dung pit, 40*80 and 8 feet deep, walled on three sides... I hate it but at the moment there are no funds to do anything with it..

We've got one of those too.

I like our overall layout, everything could do with being 4 feet further away from each other but it's otherwise ok. The farmyard is on a hill with the pit at the bottom so I've come up with a plan to do it in stages, inspired by the huge slatted unit in the journal a few weeks ago.

1) knock and rebuild the walls, but thicker and go to 10 feet deep and retain a drive in point for now. gives a small increase in storage with the extra 2 feet depth.

2) roof it, one big mofo portal frame over the top, instantly massively boosts capacity as you've no rain in the tank.

3) put in pillars in the middle to carry slats/suspended floors and you have yourself a fine slatted unit, knock the cubicle house that's beside the pit at the moment and it becomes your feed passage.


No idea if it's actually doable, but it's my current dream.

bbam

JohnBoy wrote: »

We've got one of those too.

I like our overall layout, everything could do with being 4 feet further away from each other but it's otherwise ok. The farmyard is on a hill with the pit at the bottom so I've come up with a plan to do it in stages, inspired by the huge slatted unit in the journal a few weeks ago.

1) knock and rebuild the walls, but thicker and go to 10 feet deep and retain a drive in point for now. gives a small increase in storage with the extra 2 feet depth.

2) roof it, one big mofo portal frame over the top, instantly massively boosts capacity as you've no rain in the tank.

3) put in pillars in the middle to carry slats/suspended floors and you have yourself a fine slatted unit, knock the cubicle house that's beside the pit at the moment and it becomes your feed passage.


No idea if it's actually doable, but it's my current dream.

Yea I often wondered about putting slats over it but I already have a slatted shed that's enough at the moment.
I often wondered about precast walls and if they could be lifted in to carry slats or slabs. I'd need about half the size for soiled water collection and the rest could just be filled in.

Manoffeeling

Have none. Hoping to start on a greenfield site in the spring.

F.D

our yard is tidy and compact but functional the biggest gripe i have is with a 4 ft deep dungstead we have in the lowest part of the yard that every bit of rain water goes into it we have diverted most of it now so its only for effluent of the pit and dung but it is still dangerous and adds more expense emptying it and the fact its beside a public road doesent help
will eventually make a 8ft deep covered tank for the effluent and put in some sort of shed for the dung to eliminate the rain water and fill the hole altogether

1chippy

ours is ok. main gripe i have would be that yard has too many corners where cattle tend to corner themselves when bringing them through it. have a new shed planned which will cover some of the problem.