Chicken Door Construction and More Panels Too

Friday June 1, 2018 Guerneville CA.

Chicken doors

I needed to make a couple chicken doors in the side of the coop today.

It takes me a while to get the body moving in the morning so I started by cutting some rebar for another panel. I set up the panel to weld and then moved to the chicken door project.

I’m building two doors so I can let the chickens into two different pens if I want to. I moved the fence out of the way as it goes between the two doors and would make it harder to work. The panels are easy to move, just cut a couple wires and move it a bit.

Here’s the two doors cut out.doors

 

Only chicken doors

I didn’t make very neat cuts but it’s only chicken doors. I just cut out the two by fours.doorjob

 

I cut and screwed in the inside supports for the doors.inside

 

Good to go

Here’s the finished doors with the pen divider put back in place.finished

 

Wiring panels

After a good break I cut some more wire for panels and put some of the wire on, but was getting tired out later in the day, so was slowing down.wired

 

Last project today

I did weld up this last side panel before I ran out of gas and chair hopped for the rest of the day.panel

 

I did visit my cherry trees several times during the day. They are going fast as the birds are helping me out.

These panels will complete all my side panels but I still have several ceiling panels to make yet.

Tomorrow I hope to get all these panels wired up and installed.

That was my day.

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Working Panels and the Chicks Are Ordered

Thursday May 31, 2018 Guerneville CA.

Slowly but surely

I started out today putting all the wire on this 20 foot panel that I had welded up yesterday.wiredup

 

Once all the wire was on I drug it over to where it will be installed. I didn’t install it as it would block the path I need to drag some other panels to the same spots so I laid it down here near where it will be used.panel

 

Last side panel for the mulch area

I then put wire on some other panels for the mulch area here. I had to do a little digging to prep the spot to make it level before I could install it.prep

 

I wired the panel up with steel wire to attach it to the other panels.

Rocked the path

And dug out a few inches of dirt on the path and got some rock from a pile I had nearby so the path won’t get muddy this winter.rock

 

Setting up a panel

After a good break I set up another 20 foot panel to get it ready to weld up later today.seti[

 

Later in the day I did get that 20 foot panel welded up ready for wire, but not today.panel2

 

I also welded this panel up and set up the other one near the top ready to weld up tomorrow.panel3

 

Things are coming along

The light was fading by now so I put my tools away and did a bit of chair hopping admiring my work as things are coming along nicely.

Chicks are coming

My brother Tom came by and said we’d be getting some little peeps on June 11th. I only have a couple things I need to do for them. I need to get some feed for them soon too.

That was my day for a good one.

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