The Folks were cleaning out the ‘woodshed’ at the house, and Dad found some old aluminum paint. No idea how old it is, but it was still perfectly good! So Dad took a wire brush with him to clean off the rust a little, and started to paint the bad spots on the feed bins.
The fans from the barn blow out towards these two bins, and in just a few years, managed to corrode through galvanized metal and zinc plated bolts in several spots! (If you look closely, you can see that the entire front leg has been painted, whereas the back bin post has not.. so much better than it looked before!) A little paint makes a world of difference.. now we have to finish where he ran short on paint..
While sheep aren’t exactly odorless! Pigs are worse, and a whole lot more corrosive. Many things are going to last a lot longer now that it’s a sheep barn!