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DH has helped me over the holiday weekend to do some more work on the run. He even took time away from deer hunting to help get it finished.
It's kinda hard to see, but this is the top of the run covered in hardware cloth. It wasn't as bad putting it up as we thought, but it did take most of the day to do it. We had thought about putting tin over the whole roof. We decided against it since the roof line would have had to drop down a lot more. I didn't want to have to be bent over while in the run, so we went with mostly wire.
Here, we are attaching the 2' apron. We screwed it to the 2x4's, then flipped them over and screwed them into the posts.
You can just make out the 2"x3" green squares of the wire. We had thought about using hardware cloth, but figured it would rust quicker since it's not as thick. Putting the apron down was easier than I thought it would be.
We anchored the apron wire down with metal tent stakes. I will be putting a raised garden bed over some of the apron, and will let the grass grow up through the rest of it.
Here it shows the apron installed. I painted the bottom boards this afternoon, but it was too late to take a pic. I had planned on painting them before we used them, but I didn't have time to paint all the wood we got Wed. evening. The rest of the boards are painted now, so no more bending over to paint!
We're hoping to put up the wire tomorrow, and then just have the door and pop door left to do. Off to figure out the easiest way to make a slid down pop door. I'm not going automatic, since I have to go out every morning and scrape the poop board any way.
