Just before the horses came in for winter we found out that there wasn't enough bale ring feeders to go around this year. Between me and my mum we couldn't afford to buy one for ourselves and we were struggling to find one that wasn't a cattle ring feeder online. This meaning that we'd have to put the full bale into the field as is and possibly loose quite a bit of hay with the wind that we get near the sea. The other option was to buy a bale net to out over the full bale in the field, but we were then concerned that when the bale started to get lower what shape the net would take.
Thankfully my dad was around and had plenty of spare wood in the garage that he'd kept over the years. With emptying the garage he was then able to make us our own ring feeder. This has been down in the field since the first week of November and it's been moved many times over winter to keep it out of the worst of the mud, but apart from that it hasn't been treated and it's working really well. The pieces at the bottom and placed well for them to take the weight of the bale. To get the sizing he measured up the size of your average pallet which a bale fits on perfectly and then added a little space for the bale to be put in easily with the tractor. Each of the corners are together with screws and then have L shaped pieces of metal to have extra security and to add strength to the frame.
Here's a picture of the horses using it well in the field.
Have you ever had to think out of the box for anything and either create something or or use something different of a different job?
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