Last year we could not use the stall in the barn for the cows because the rain (70 plus inches in this part of the country) would run off the back of the barn to right in front of the stall opening. It was a sea of mud all winter. To solve this we are putting a lean too on the back of the barn so the rain will drain away from the opening, providing a nice dry place for the cows.
We scrounged almost all of the materials! A friend’s old deck became the ledger board and support boards for the lean to. A pile of old cedar fence plus other old parts from the barn itself made the supports for the roof on top of poles that came from a neighbor who cleaned out his woods. The tin will be a combination of scrap from the barn loft and traded for scrap tin that another neighbor has. I did buy a few sheets of plywood but also used a few other sheets laying around the farm.
Here is the project so far:
