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Saturday...the project continues...
I ran my errands this morning, bought extra zip-ties, but came home without fender washers...they're prohibitively expensive, 4 washers for $2.50? I try to buy local as much as I can, but I guess I'm going to have to go online. I checked, 100 fender washers for about $12 on Amazon. That'll do.
With assistance from my dh I attached the two leftover pieces of hardware cloth to make it long enough to cover the remainder of the coop. Of course I used zip-ties!
Close up:
And up onto the hoop it went!
Then came the tedious task of zip-tying each section of hardware cloth to the cattle panel structure and to each other, with about a 2" overlap over each adjacent section. When I got to the top of the structure I was able to feed the zip-ties through with the use of a tool I bought on a whim several years ago:
Once I finished attaching the hardware cloth with zip-ties I attached it to the 2x4 frame with screws and the remaining fender washers. I'll add more once my online order arrives.
I trimmed the ends off the zip-ties, finishing just as it was getting dark and COLD. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain all day, so the final side, the end with a DOOR, will have to wait until next weekend.
Feels good!
@FunClucks @gtaus
I ran my errands this morning, bought extra zip-ties, but came home without fender washers...they're prohibitively expensive, 4 washers for $2.50? I try to buy local as much as I can, but I guess I'm going to have to go online. I checked, 100 fender washers for about $12 on Amazon. That'll do.
With assistance from my dh I attached the two leftover pieces of hardware cloth to make it long enough to cover the remainder of the coop. Of course I used zip-ties!
Close up:
And up onto the hoop it went!
Then came the tedious task of zip-tying each section of hardware cloth to the cattle panel structure and to each other, with about a 2" overlap over each adjacent section. When I got to the top of the structure I was able to feed the zip-ties through with the use of a tool I bought on a whim several years ago:
Once I finished attaching the hardware cloth with zip-ties I attached it to the 2x4 frame with screws and the remaining fender washers. I'll add more once my online order arrives.
I trimmed the ends off the zip-ties, finishing just as it was getting dark and COLD. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain all day, so the final side, the end with a DOOR, will have to wait until next weekend.
Feels good!
@FunClucks @gtaus
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