Thursday, October 21, 2010

Moved Water Tank

My original plan for locating the water tank didn't work out so well. Even though I'd made a lid for it, some critter kept pushing it off to the side just enough for all the woodland creatures to get in.

Because of this, every time I'd come to check on things, I'd find another dead animal inside, drowned because it couldn't get out. The last straw was when I opened the lid and saw two drowned squirrels at the bottom.

To fix the problem, I left the lid off and decided to move it behind the goat shed so it would catch the runoff from the roof. I'm planning on putting a rain gutter in there at some point to funnel it all in. I also put a log in there, so any trapped critters can get out. Sawyer is my model, showing how a trapped squirrel would get out.

1 comment:

  1. Dad, I didn't know you had a second blog! I'll make sure to check this one out!

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