Bob's Eyes

Monday May 21, 2018 Guerneville CA.

Getting around the apple tree

I needed to attach wire to the five panels I welded up yesterday to get around the apple tree I’m trying to avoid.

I’ve got the wire cut in this picture and now I need to attach it to the rebar panels after a break.

Another stump to whack

The apple tree is on the right and the extension around it is in the center. But now I see that bush on the left has got to come out. It’s a crape myrtle or something like that. It doesn’t bare anything to eat so it goes.

I watered the ground around the bush to soften it up before I started. As I dug around the dump I noted that it had many roots and a bunch of them right under the bush, so it wouldn’t budge so I got out the whacker, the mall and broke it into pieces which took care of the problem.

The bush is out

The stump is out and I just need to clean up the pieces and fill the hole back in.

Put up the panels I  had

Once that was done, I put up the last panel that starts the next enclosure I have to build, but I need to get some more rebar first.

Little chicken door

Here’s the view looking out with the apple tree on the left. I decided to not put a big door in the  extension end  but put a little chicken door there so they’ll be able to get into the other enclosure when I want them to.

Still lots to do

I really went through the rebar and I’m almost out of it and I need some more wire and clips too so I’ll have to go shopping soon. The panels I put up today finish off the main chicken run so I need to work on finishing up the things the pen needs to operate with chickens, like some drinking water and roosts.

That was my day.

Sunday May 20, 2018 Guerneville CA.

Reworked the door roof

Once I got started today, I removed the  door roof and raised it up an inch and screwed it back down and it looked like this. The door doesn’t hit the roof now.

Getting around the apple tree

I’ve been studying this apple tree. It’s in the way, but I don’t want to remove it so what to do to put the pen in. I finally decided to extend the pen four feet to get to the other side of it for my next enclosure I will build.

Building panels

So I cut rebar and welded it together. I made five panels today, but I didn’t get the wire on them yet.

Mowed down some weeds

In the evening I gassed the weed mower and mowed weeds until the mower stopped, ran out of gas I think. That was enough for me.

I also turned the water on to water my garden a bit.

That was it for me today for a nice one.