Can you use this size wood for coop?

[KellyGwen]

I am jealous of your woodpile! I looked in my wood bin yesterday and it's almost empty... WAHHHH!!!!

My circular saw is HUNGRY!!!

 

[pierce652]

You could also just rip the boards down the middle and then you'd have 2x4's kinda.

 

[chickensandmore]

You could rip 25 of them down and make 2x5 or there about..then turn them on side and rip again and have 1x 5 for siding,with that many boards you could truly build a nice coop.
Have Fun with it..

Don in Spiro

 

[pozarnsk]

Just make sure you don't use them as is and then realize you need to buy 50 more to finish you project....$$$$ lol

 

[onthespot]

all I can say is, measure twice, cut once!

 

[pozarnsk]

measure twice, cut once, start swearing, and then tell yourself, "it's just a chicken coop" and nail it up anyway.

lol, building my coop now, and that has been my experience over the last few days....

 

[joebryant]

Presuming that your 2x10's are 8 feet long:
300 x 10/12 x 8 feet = 2,000 square feet of surface area, i.e., you could have a wall that was eight feet tall and 250 feet long.
or (another way)
300 x 10 inches = 3000 inches 3000 divided by 12 = 250 feet
You can build a 25' x 100' coop with walls that are eight feet high.
WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION?

 

[smom1976]

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oh and by the way

pozarnsk
Today 8:22 am measure twice, cut once, start swearing, and then tell yourself, "it's just a chicken coop" and nail it up anyway.

lol, building my coop now, and that has been my experience over the last few days....


soooo true.. I found this to be what happend when building my coop..

I would absolutly love having that wood pile.. You rip just a few into thirds.. and use aprox 2x3's for the framing.. then if you choose to use as siding.. or find other siding.. But you would only have to rip just a few..

ohh I am soo green with envy..

 

[Grindlefamily]

OH Gosh - if we had a stack of lumber that big I'd be in HEAVEN and have a ROCKING Coop!

So Jealous!

Good Luck.

Louella

 

[dr8goons]

what is a rip saw? the boards are actuly 15-20 feet long. Where still trying to figaure out the coop plan in our head and since we havent we decided to build a small one for know and do a bigger one later. This is all new to use and we have never built anything before well untill the run and we wernt sure if 2x10s would be ok for the frame or if they would be way to big.