That’s pretty much what I did today. I’m constructing the roof panels for the chicken enclosure. There are 4 panels 7 x 10 feet each.
First I cut all the rebar to size, then weld it up into panels.
Then I cut the wire to fit and attach the ends using pig clips on two sides and bending the wire over on it’s ends on the other two sides.
I have the water on for the garden enclosure in the back and am working on this enclosure for the chickens putting up the roof panels.
Frog sprinklers are still the best
Each enclosure will have a frog sprinkler on top when I’m done including the chicken enclosures.
Roof panels make it all square and give the whole thing support
The roof panels are square so they line up on all the side panels and the side panels all have to be square for it to fit together so the side panels are pushed this way and that until the whole enclosure is square at which time the roof panels will fit properly.
I have 2 roof panels up. They are hard to see. This view is from inside the enclosure.
Here’s another view of it from the end.
Wanting to get more done than I’m able
This morning I thought I might get all 4 panels made today, but as the day wore on, I could see I was slowing down and settled for getting two panels complete. The other two roof panels just need the wire attached and they will be done.
Design change
I still had about an hour before dark as I got the second roof panel up and square so I sat around and studied my design. With the enclosure mostly up things are getting more visual, so I made some improvements and changed my original design for the chicken pen around the coop.
It got dark on me so I came on in for the day and that was my day for a nice one.
Things are coming along. Bill makes changes as he goes too, sits back and sees an improvement he could make so the original plan goes out the window a bit. :)
Nice work, Bob. No reason to rush, you are retired!
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A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Things are coming along. Bill makes changes as he goes too, sits back and sees an improvement he could make so the original plan goes out the window a bit. :)
Nice work, Bob. No reason to rush, you are retired!