building paradise for the birds

[perchie.girl]

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I use zip ties while assembling because I have to build by myself. they are a wonderful extra hand when trying to put things together. Once I get things "Tacked" together I go back through and do hog rings or safety wire which ever is simplest. I leave the zip ties in place they do rot off in the sun here but if they arent put under torsion they will remain a couple of years.

I sooooo would love to have a tube bender.... I have to make a run that is fifty or sixty by twenty five... I want an arch over the run so I can put up some Aviary net.

Is this the kind you are talking about? http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-7708-quick-hoops-low-tunnel-bender-4-w-x-4-h.aspx
Oops too small for my application.

I will proably just run a cable from the Eucalyptus tree to the center of the coop and drape the net over that.

I do have a tube bender but its for conduit and only does a twelve inch radius.

deb

 

[Purpletie3]

I use zip ties while assembling because I have to build by myself. they are a wonderful extra hand when trying to put things together. Once I get things "Tacked" together I go back through and do hog rings or safety wire which ever is simplest. I leave the zip ties in place they do rot off in the sun here but if they arent put under torsion they will remain a couple of years.

I sooooo would love to have a tube bender.... I have to make a run that is fifty or sixty by twenty five... I want an arch over the run so I can put up some Aviary net.

Is this the kind you are talking about? http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-7708-quick-hoops-low-tunnel-bender-4-w-x-4-h.aspx
Oops too small for my application.

I will proably just run a cable from the Eucalyptus tree to the center of the coop and drape the net over that.

I do have a tube bender but its for conduit and only does a twelve inch radius.

deb

Yes, we have it mounted to a table. I am going to build one as soon as our snow melts here. I am planning on chain link fence top rail for the hoops. I want it to me modular so it will need to be on skids of some sort. Looking for multi-use for the hens and season extension. I am not sure about the 25' of width. Here are a couple other links for consideration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBmhPVL0QZs

http://umaine.edu/york/files/2014/02/10x10ASGHHS_Es.pdf

http://www.buildmyowngreenhouse.com/138tubingconnectors.aspx

Johnny's also has a pdf info file on their site.

 

[attimus]

Was hoping my feed store guys had a better answer (definitely a couple of good ol' boys) but hog rings was their go to as well. Have you thought about using a thinner wire and threading the hardware clothe to the panels, you could go thin enough for flexibility without compromising durability if it was all basically sewn to the panels. The wire I had in mind is actually what the use to keep the clothe wrapped up. Enough of that stuff systematically wrapped around everything would be tough as nails.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Thank you for the links... I have seen the first video. The Buildmyowngreenouse one is an excellent source for parts. I have been looking for those connectors that will fasten two bars crossed.

Here is a link too for components this one you buy your own tubing. No bending. But there is an interactive tool where you tell it what size kind of roof pitch and style. then they tell you how many connectors of what type and they tell you what size tarp will work.

https://creativeshelters.com/

deb

 

[Purpletie3]

 

[Purpletie3]

That was supposed to be a thumbs up...apparently, it came up as square~

 

[perchie.girl]

That was supposed to be a thumbs up...apparently, it came up as square~

LOL... it was an eeensy thumbs up..... as in a text character thumb. there I changed it to a 48 point font.... from this

I have been researching tubing shelters for a good fifteen years now. First in order to figure a way to give my horse shade but later on for chicken structures. Here in the desert I was thinking it was a good choice because we get very little snow. And having connections that were screwed together was a good option because of the wind. I was woefully wrong on both counts.

One night after a wind storm, that made the screens scream on the house so loud you couldnt talk on the phone, I came out to find my horse standing in the middle of her two carports and wiggling a carport leg with her lip. It was a pile of tubes and canvas.... She looked up at me like.... "What...!"

Draft horses have a great sense of humor.

So I spent some money and got a full on car port made of 1 7/8 ten gauge tube with full on tin roof. Radical snow storm took that one and squished it like a dead spider. Horse wasnt there. Failure for that one was no cross bracing to keep the legs vertical.... I still have the tubes most of them are still good.

I am still hopeful to use them to support an aviary net to protect from raptors. But a cable will work just as well I have an Eucalyptus tree at one end of the yard and can run a cable to the new coop. I can rig a pully system to pull the net along on metal links ...

I have to to it all from the ground because I am in a walker. No tree climbing for me... LOL.

deb

 

[birdman55]

well i have to get that coop done quick i will use tons of zipties and then weave wiring in if i cant find small metal ties... just put the quail eggs into the hatcher...so well see how that goes...really trying to experiment on how the eggs will pan out thru shipping...so well see here are some pics...i guess we are getting a pair of purple peafowl now...so this is turning into a zoo for sure...had to move a red golden male out of the male pen cause he was getting picked on so out to the peafowl coop he goes...

 

[attimus]

Lol, you better hurry up and knit that coop or something, you have way more chicks than I do. What are those stripped ones and how far out are the quail?

 

[birdman55]

Lol, you better hurry up and knit that coop or something, you have way more chicks than I do. What are those stripped ones and how far out are the quail?

stripped ones are easter eggers..and the quail just went into lockdown today...got a bunch of wood to put up on the sides of the pens...treated and at 30 bucks a sheet ....that sheet was expensive...got enough to do the back coops...maybe going to install it tomarrow and get the hoop coop done...as for in a week im going to be hatching 90 chicken eggs...and then the wait time for the pheasant eggs...cant wait...well be back in a bit