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15 Feb ’12
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since the pallet duck build was a success, we decided to move our egg slaves into the yard this winter, since they have been in there all spring, one thing missing in my opinion in a lot of pallet builds is insulating and outside finishes, to be continued
3 Nov ’12
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Interested! Especially since I have access to free pallets!
15 Feb ’12
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sweet, I am like 2 pallets short, need to run around today and search for some more
23 Feb ’12
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In. My ladies need a new house and I know where I can get all the pallets I'll ever need.
15 Feb ’12
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so I spent the last couple days gathering needed supplies, and today the weather was finally nice enough to get started, we decided to build the coop against the fence by the gate, it gets sun first thing in the morning before anywhere else in the yard
I laid the base down to see how much of the raspberry bushes I needed to cut back
So I cleared out some of the canes and mowed the area down
I picked up some piers the other day
of course the turkeys had to come see what all the commotion was about
I set the piers on the ground
and grabbed the door frame from the greenhouse I had taken down to use as a support base for the pallets
and screwed two of the pallets down to the base
my wife and I then started standing up pallets and screwing them down into the base pallets
the ends we stood up in place and leveled the top with the front and back pallets and screwed them into the sides
I grabbed the chainsaw
and cut out a doorway
tomorrow,I should at least get it insulated and shingled, hopefully get the roof on as well
to be continued
18 Aug ’13
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nice
15 Feb ’12
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so it was busier than I thought it was going to be yesterday so I didn't have quite as much time to work on the coop as I had planned, but i cleaned out the opening some more
and framed it out with some scrap 2x4 I had laying around
my daughter was getting rid of a old side dresser she had, so not wanting to waste anything, I decided to repurpose the drawers
so I cut out a opening on each end and put in a filler piece of wood
and test fit the drawers
these will be used as a nesting box on one end and a feed tray on the other, just slide them out and grab a egg or give them some feed
I also noticed the pallets weren't lining up properly along the front
so I screwed down a scrap piece of wood to level it out
should get most if not all done today
my shadows give me 2 wings up so far lol
15 Feb ’12
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So I stuck some filler pieces on top of the drawers as well to keep the insulation from falling into the drawers
and we hung some plastic on the inside to keep it from falling through the larger gaps
I picked up some mulch master, which is chopped straw, baled straw is next to impossible to find right now
and started filling in the gaps
no one light a match!
I grabbed some shingles
and nailed down my starter course
I grabbed my shingling jig we had used on the barn and shed, it's just a couple scraps of T&G pine we had screwed onto a piece of 1" material and screwed some lips on the bottom
the lips on the bottom grabs the bottom of the course below and you just shingle right along the top of the jig, no measuring, no fuss, no muss
that is until you drive a brad nail through your finger and your wife and daughter flip out like you just chopped your arm off, lol, my daughter is still convinced I'm gonna get tetanus
after cleaning up the blood and getting bandaged, I started back on my shingling
not to shabby, when I'm done, you won't even know it's pallets
the egg drawer is ready to start collecting
to be continued
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