Fort Cluck - First Time Building Coop

[SourRoses]

But how does it make any sense to take all of the work we had done when it was almost done ( we really only had one wall left to do ) and replace it all? Then turn around and try to blame it on the other person saying it’s what they wanted? If that’s what I wanted, we would’ve done the OSB in the first place. Just because you’re helping someone doesn’t mean you can take over and do what you want.

You don’t know my dad like I do.

Often when people get even a little bit older they get confused more easily. I'm not even saying dementia, but just a general increasing challenge in balancing several thoughts at once.
My mom can sometimes be challenging in this regard and she's not that old. And she gets frustrated with me for the things she didn't remember me saying the first or second time. It's been really gradual and it's hard to point to a particular moment when she went from awesomely on top of everything, to asking me what we should do next all the time. next
It's a normal natural process, and coping with the shift in their abilities is part of becoming a fully mature adult ourselves.

I can see why you value that particular lumber, it was your grandfathers. He probably sweated over that wood. But he was most likely thinking of your parent(s) wellbeing as he worked. One generation sacrifices for the next, and back then they sacrificed a lot. So he would probably be more interested in your family members themselves than in the wood he used to help provide for them.
You could try explaining to your father why that wood in particular mattered to you, as long as you keep recrimination out of it which should make it easier to listen.
An example convo might go something like:
"Hey Dad, have I told you yet how much I appreciate all your help on this project? You know I was upset about that wood but it was because it made me feel close to grandfather and I'm really missing him. When we have some time and energy to spare I'd like to build something out of it that we can keep using to honor him."
Or something like that.
I hope you don't feel like I'm lecturing you. I seem to be the sort that pokes my nose in :/

 

[SourRoses]

I kept meaning but forgetting to say, it sounded like he thought he identified an issue with the aged lumber. Perhaps it was not sitting plumb due to warp from it's previous structure settling, or perhaps there was some decay or other issue. Whatever the case he would have had to be thinking something was wrong to go to all the work of dismantling a structure and then rebuilding it with purchased materials.
The misremembering about you being on board with the change probably came after.

 

[Kat2141]

But how does it make any sense to take all of the work we had done when it was almost done ( we really only had one wall left to do ) and replace it all? Then turn around and try to blame it on the other person saying it’s what they wanted? If that’s what I wanted, we would’ve done the OSB in the first place. Just because you’re helping someone doesn’t mean you can take over and do what you want.

You don’t know my dad like I do.

Take this as you would like... but from someone that has a barn made with barn boards, he was actually doing you a favor. I have my girls in an old horse stall. I put OSB on the inside of the walls because the wind and snow would just go thru between the boards. It is very hard to get barn boards, especially old ones, weather tight. You had mentioned that he put the boards down the hill or something. Can you get them and put them on the outside of the osb like one would do siding on a house? Then you could have the same look but the weather-tight features of a plywood/osb structure. Find the roses in this... someday your dad won't be around and then you'll be wishing he was... that is experience talking...

 

[cluckingheck]

I’ve had enough of crying for the day. Here’s my peanut gallery

 

[Quadzilla32]

I've been seeing coops like OP's that had the roof elevated using 2x4 turned on their side leaving a small gap from the wall and roof. My question is do you guys who have their roof like that get any rain or snow inside the coop? I can put a 2x4 across the beams making an overhang but is that enough to stop blowing rain and snow from getting in?

 

[cluckingheck]

I've been seeing coops like OP's that had the roof elevated using 2x4 turned on their side leaving a small gap from the wall and roof. My question is do you guys who have their roof like that get any rain or snow inside the coop? I can put a 2x4 across the beams making an overhang but is that enough to stop blowing rain and snow from getting in?

No rain comes in but there’s a pretty decent overhang to prevent it. Only rain that gets in is from the holes in the roof since it was repurposed tin. I just used flexseal to cover the holes up

 

[3KillerBs]

I've been seeing coops like OP's that had the roof elevated using 2x4 turned on their side leaving a small gap from the wall and roof. My question is do you guys who have their roof like that get any rain or snow inside the coop? I can put a 2x4 across the beams making an overhang but is that enough to stop blowing rain and snow from getting in?

You need a generous roof overhang to keep the weather out.

 

[cluckingheck]

So, a chicken dipping their beak real quick before realizing the paint tastes nasty isn’t going to hurt them? It shouldn’t be enough to, yeah? Valerie, my barnevelder, is a bit dim I have recently discovered. Like, yeah, the paint isn’t going to taste any different from the last time you tried it 30mins ago. I set it on my ladder when I can but I have to set it down when I’m using it and that’s when she tried to take a sip.

 

[MarkRainbolt]

Nah. He wants to do shit his own way and **** everyone else. We had almost all the walls up with the old barn wood from my papaw’s farm ( who died recently and I wanted to have the coop match his barns ) but he took them all down while I was at work and replaced it with the OSB for no reason. Then he tries to say “well that’s what you wanted” when I mention it to him and ask him why he did it. And guess what he did with the boards that had nothing wrong with them? Threw it over the hill

Quit whining about it, go over the hill pick up the barn wood and refasten it over the osb. Sounds like you’re dad was just trying to help you out in the long run.
Mark

 

[cluckingheck]

I’m going to need a taller ladder ( I really only had a step stool and a roller extender ) to finish trimming out stuff in the green