My clever brother is responsible for this design. First we removed the left arm of the tractor and both wheels. We placed the main coop on pavers. We prepped the ground by digging a bit down, the put river rocks down for drainage. Then pavers, then the coop. Between coop and run area, more rocks, and then landscaping edging between the coop and the new run. We dug down just over 1 foot all the way around the front of the frame, and buried 1 ft of hardware cloth. That was HARD! Outlined with pavers, more river rocks, then he put in the frame. ***I'm calling them pavers which is not what they are. They are cement blocks, but the little top sections. Basically the top of a cement block. Sorry for the 'girl' description, I'm out of my realm of expertise here.
Closer view of the frame on the blocks. He leveled out the ground with lots of rocks for drainage.
The frame is attached to the main coop with screen door type latches. Not that it's going anywhere - and probably doesn't need to be attached because it's too heavy for any animal except like a bear to move it (not much chance of that here!). But we can detach and move it if we should decide that we'd like to reposition the whole setup some day.
More framing. My brother did all this himself without our help. Because we were not helpful and we had no idea what he was doing.
My clever brother is responsible for this design. First we removed the left arm of the tractor and both wheels. We placed the main coop on pavers. We prepped the ground by digging a bit down, the put river rocks down for drainage. Then pavers, then the coop. Between coop and run area, more rocks, and then landscaping edging between the coop and the new run. We dug down just over 1 foot all the way around the front of the frame, and buried 1 ft of hardware cloth. That was HARD! Outlined with pavers, more river rocks, then he put in the frame. ***I'm calling them pavers which is not what they are. They are cement blocks, but the little top sections. Basically the top of a cement block. Sorry for the 'girl' description, I'm out of my realm of expertise here.
wendyrun

My clever brother is responsible for this design. First we removed the left arm of the tractor and both wheels. We placed the main coop on pavers. We prepped the ground by digging a bit down, the put river rocks down for drainage. Then pavers, then the coop. Between coop and run area, more rocks, and then landscaping edging between the coop and the new run. We dug down just over 1 foot all the way around the front of the frame, and buried 1 ft of hardware cloth. That was HARD! Outlined with pavers, more river rocks, then he put in the frame. ***I'm calling them pavers which is not what they are. They are cement blocks, but the little top sections. Basically the top of a cement block. Sorry for the 'girl' description, I'm out of my realm of expertise here.

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