I Built a Horse Training Round Pen For $60

[@SandraVanLankvelt]

You are sooooo Blessed to have a wife and family that backs you and assisted you with your dream. God is Blessing you ALL. Very GREAT JOB on building that AWESOME round pen.

[@HorsePerfect]

Hi Sandra! Wow you're so right! Thank you for reminding me to stop and thank God! Sometimes it feels like life moves so fast and we forget how blessed we are!

[@spattisson]

Superb work and an incredible film of your labour! It will feature in many of your future videos (I’m sure) so I am glad you chose such a beautiful location too. The variety of wildlife… praise our wonderful creator God 🙌🏼 Keep up the good work!

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you so much Seymour!! Means a lot to have a kind and positive comment! 🙌🏼 amen praise God!

[@charisseayre1299]

Wow! What a great job. It's a beautiful coral, your family must be so proud of you 👏.

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you very much! Yes my family were so helpful and they really like how it turned out 😊

[@charlottepattisson3142]

Incredible 🙌 what more can I say the finished product speaks for all of the planning, hard work and perseverance, love the animal cameos too! 😍

[@HorsePerfect]

Thanks so much!! 🤍🤍

[@loncho5079]

Hello friend, your corral looks great, top notch! However, the diagonal brace/board that you put on your gate is going in the wrong direction, for maximum strength it should go from the bottom corner of the gate "on hinged post" up and across to upper corner of the gate (that swings open). This way, that diagonal brace supports the weight of the gate and takes the load down into the base/bottom of your hinged post, where the post is buried into the ground is the strongest and most stable point! As opposed to the way you have it, where the diagonal brace is literally hanging from the top corner of the hinged post, where the post is less stable. Your way, the weight of the gate is unsupported and pulling down towards open corner of the gate. This is a common mistake that I see all the time and for the most part, your way will still last for years, However, if a person or people were to sit on the gate as it swings open or closed you will start to notice a significant sag of the gate that can compromise the integrity of your gate. In my younger days, I installed fencing and gates of all types and all materials and I would always show my customers how I could hang my 250+ lbs on their gate as it swung open and closed without any sagging or weakening of the gate whatsoever. (If it helps, imagine that your gate only had the top rail and the diagonal brace, there is only one direction that the diagonal brace can attach from open end of the top rail, down to the bottom hinge of the post and support your weight, the other direction, the brace supports nothing) It's much easier to just point a finger and show you in person , than to explain the concept in words, sorry.

[@HorsePerfect]

Hi there! Thank you so much for your comment! Very insightful and I can tell you are a skilled craftsmen! I will definitely see if I can swing that board around so it actually does what I wanted it to do! Thanks again for the tip! 💪🏼

[@loncho5079]

​@@HorsePerfect Good, you'll immediately notice a difference. And if your gate sags at all when you remove the brace, just prop it up or lift it to where you want it, before reinstalling it the right way. You are welcome, and thank you for your videos!!!! And BTW, the brace board should actually extend from corner to corner. If I recall yours was a tad short. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@LaLaLucky7777]

Awesome job! Can't wait to see you use it! Congratulations

[@HorsePerfect]

Thanks! Tonnes of videos of me using it on my channel!

[@reb4898]

Beautiful addition to your property and it will last a long time. There quite a variety of animals around your neck-of-woods…

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you! Yes I hope so! We do have a lot of wildlife! 😊

[@coconutz247]

loved watching this one. family is everything in this world.

[@HorsePerfect]

Absolutely! Family is such a blessing! 💪🏼🙌🏼

[@bearsmartdurango]

$60, two tractors and a post hole digger. Very cool tho, and great use of free material.

[@hotwireman49]

Great job on the corral! You are living my dream!!

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you very much!

[@S.R.Patil11]

The video shows the level of horse passion you have great Hard work brother

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you brother!!

[@xioaw]

4:15 was so funny for some reason the way the truck slowly lifted was hilarious

[@HorsePerfect]

Haha yeah I really tested that trucks load capacity 😅😅

[@mrdjangofreeman5560]

Awesome job , congrats 👍

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you! Cheers mate

[@bespokecreations1844]

How much time does it take?

[@HorsePerfect]

I built the whole pen over about 3 months but I only actually worked on it 10 days total! It could depend on how much help and equipment you have access to!

[@chrisusher7144]

Great I have a almost all panel round pen but I have a hill full of trees so I'm going to do what you did .will be great and copying you that's nice

[@HorsePerfect]

Sounds great!😊

[@clcreations9634]

Great job, love it

[@Conny226]

But it’s very awesome how you all build this .Very nice 👍🏻

[@hotwireman49]

I made a comment on one of your videos about the terrain where you live. At first I thought it looked like California, maybe, or Florida. But then I watched a few more of your videos (which I adore, BTW), and doubted you are in the states at all. I'm dying to know where you are in the world. It's so beautiful!

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you! You are so kind! I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed some of my videos! I live in Paraguay South America! Makes me very happy to hear you thought it was California 🙌🏼😊

[@kimoto81]

regards from Brazil. Great Work Mate!

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you so much! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷❤️

[@husseinmadbouh3157]

What an amazing work. Go you.

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you! 🙌🏼Cheers!

[@harrypwatson]

WOAH SO COOL! What an amazing place. Praise God!

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you man! Yes God is Good!!!

[@vishnuvv6059]

Nice work bro, Superb

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@anemone104]

Good work. Couple of tips for next time if I may: If you cleave your rails and uprights, they will last longer as water penetration into entire fibres is a lot slower. Of course you can't cleave stuff with big knots so sawing remains your best option. And a cleaving brake makes cleaving smaller diameter clear lengths easier.... De-barking timber also makes it last longer as the bark rots fast and when green bark beetles and such will get in and rot it (and wood beneath) away.

[@HorsePerfect]

Hi Anemone, interesting tips! I’ve never heard of cleaving what does that entail?

[@anemone104]

​@@HorsePerfect Watch this vid (not mine, this guy is really old school-hand tool but knows his stuff. The bit you want starts around 10 mins in: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3-kqauPe96Vhdk Any steel timber wedges will do, his are so old school with those wooden butts that I've never before seen them. Strat at the bottom end at any split that goes through the pith in the centre and it's best if the wedge you use here has an edge on it. then alternate the wedges and stand by with an axe or chainsaw to cut away any bits of wood that bridge the split. You will get wastage, and some split lengths may wind, but the cleft material lasts significantly longer in ground or above ground to make it worth while.

[@HorsePerfect]

Very impressive! It seems like a great concept! I will have to try that at some point. Here in Paraguay we have wood that lasts over a hundred years without treatment it is so solid. They call it ax breaking wood! One day I will make another corral with that wood when I can afford it!

[@PainJoyPeace]

thanks bro

[@HorsePerfect]

No problem!

[@Ashley-q4c6t]

It’s so pretty

[@HorsePerfect]

aww thanks!

[@cevuardriddick3305]

Intresting very instructive video. Bro how much diameter for this round yard and how many meters beetwen the posts

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you Bro! 18.29 meters diameter and 28 posts About 57.4 meters Circumference about 2 meters between posts.

[@Conny226]

It’s maybe $60 if you already have the type of implements I would have to rent the equipment.😅

[@dickenscider9178]

If you have this much land and horses but no equipment you already have a strong back so just use that....

[@equinutz]

This is awesome thanks for sharing! What size did you go with? Diameter and height?

[@HorsePerfect]

Thank you! In the end I went with 60ft diameter and about 6.5ft -7ft high. I really didn’t want any horses jumping out haha.

[@RustieGregg-oh9py]

How did you secure your rails to the posts if you dont mind me asking?

[@HorsePerfect]

We used self drilling screws

[@sassy6292]

Chaps but no helmet. The 60 bucks is what you spent on fuel and nails? Nice corral and the horse has a great human.

[@HorsePerfect]

Yeah I could've maybe used a helmet! one with some nice noise protecting Ear cups would have been perfect! Yeah pretty much! Thank you!

[@pippylongstockings8600]

Oh Karen, just stop!

[@valoriechristensen5295]

Do you have a patiron page?

[@HorsePerfect]

I don’t have one yet… I’m thinking of making a fan funded page on my KZbin so I can do KZbin full time. What do you think about that?

[@PhilipCheadle]

Was that a 60ft diameter round pen?

[@HorsePerfect]

Yes!

[@PhilipCheadle]

Well great job on that round pen! It’s natural and beautiful! Your attention to details really shows. I love the platform too!

[@HorsePerfect]

@@PhilipCheadle thank you!🙌🏼🙏🏼💪🏼