Goat Tower

[Nanno]

The best bit is that it was relatively easy to build! For the base, Phil and his dad repaired Cuzco's old wooden shed that blew into the scrub oak last October. I think dragging that heavy broken goat house out of the bushes was the hardest part of the project. They put the pieces back together, reinforced it, then started stacking spools. We got the spools for free from our local electric co-op. They used 2" x 12" boards for the ramps with strips of plywood every 18" for traction. They bolted these to the bottom of the spools by putting two screw eyes into the boards and two into the bottom of the spools. Then they fastened them together by putting bolts through the screw eyes. It's sturdy but easy to take apart, and having the boards fasten to the bottom of the spools makes them more stable and the slopes less severe.