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    I had too many visitors (graphic pics)

    For anyone that has never been stung by a fire ant, here's my experience. You'll never think of them as 'just ants' again. When my brother and I were 6 and 4 years old (I was the oldest) we were kidnapped from the state of Kentucky and taken to our biological father's family in Florida. We...
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    How to attach hardware cloth to a wood frame?

    I saw some kind of "fence hammer" type of tool a couple of weeks ago at Tractor Supply. I believe on the box it said that this tool can hold fence staples. I think it was about $20.
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    Red Neck Coop

    Quote: Sure they weren't doing the Electric Slide?
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    Do all coop's have to be pretty?

    Quote: Was that really necessary? :|
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    My Poultry Barn - Photo Heavy

    Quote: Sounds like me:D I've had the walls for the garden shed built for over a week, and I just now came to the conclusion that I should get my butt in gear and nail down the flooring. Aeron
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    Chicken Feeders

    Quote: Just had one of my The Far Side moments What if you ID'd your birds. Ooooohhhh, "the mark of the beast" on their ankles. When they walk up to a gate and scan their foot if they're not a bantam, they have to take the other gate. Problem solved Aeron
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    How to make a roof?

    I'm not sure I even need a truss. Use Pythagoreom's theorem to figure the length of the third side of any one of the rafters. The first side is the vertical height, the second side is the horizontal length (half the width of the shed), and the third would be the result of A-sq + B-sq. After...
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    How to make a roof?

    Hey Wikkit! I'm not sure I understand what you mean by building the trusses before the walls are put up. What's the connection? What makes a great layout?
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    How to make a roof?

    Edit: I can not believe how poorly written this post was Let's try this again (more or less a correction of what I wrote before, with full acknowledgement of, AND APPRECIATION FOR, any assistance given at this point in the thread): I am putting up the walls today for my first real carpentry...
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