How
to build a floating farmyard 10th August, 2006 First of all, you need a suitably buoyant platform on which to build your raft. You could build one of your own… or alternatively bolt two old pontoons together!
To have a farmyard, we're going to need a few animals. Whilst some of our members are animal-like at times, particularly with personal hygene, the raft would look like a more convincing farmyard if it had a cow on it! So, to begin with, find an old oil drum for the cow's body (this is going to be a rather tubby cow!)
And something for her head - this old fender should do!
Now it's a case of slapping on a couple of coats of paint, and giving her seductive eye-lashes. For her legs, we used some old fence posts painted white. Her tail is black rope left over from the Kent County Show. Come on lads, that tail needs fluffing up if she's to win anything!
Carl came up with the brilliant idea of making a pigs head - from a traffic cone and two chair legs! He set to work...
In the meantime, the raft had been transformed. Matt and Sam knocked together a mini barn for the animals, and the rest of us set about laying down plastic flooring and building top quality fencing to keep our livestock from escaping their yard!
After a coat of pink paint, and a mouth and eyes - our pig looks just the part! Well done Matt!
The raft is almost complete - just a case of laying down spare sheets of plywood to stop the straw blowing away overnight!
Now
- getting it to Maidstone! Um... any ideas?
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