Helpful hints for building coops

[aart]

Art, you could toss a pile of extra chips right on the ground in the chicken yard.

Not enough room for a chipper dump load...and there's no vehicular access to area of my yard and my run is fully enclosed.
I will have to transfer them from the driveway to the run with a wheel barrow.

 

[jvls1942]

I got a new toy. yesterday I bought a second hand Brinly lawn sweeper. I pulled it around a bit with the lawn mower. I am not too impressed with it. I think the main problem is I don't have it adjusted right.
the ads say it should pick up hay..
I think the wheels are not making contact with the ground when I hit the heavy cut grass clumps..
........jiminwisc.......

 

[Molpet]

I got a new toy. yesterday I bought a second hand Brinly lawn sweeper. I pulled it around a bit with the lawn mower. I am not too impressed with it. I think the main problem is I don't have it adjusted right.
the ads say it should pick up hay..
I think the wheels are not making contact with the ground when I hit the heavy cut grass clumps..
........jiminwisc.......

love new toys
sweepers just work on dry grass, correct?

 

[NewBoots]

I got a new toy. yesterday I bought a second hand Brinly lawn sweeper. I pulled it around a bit with the lawn mower. I am not too impressed with it. I think the main problem is I don't have it adjusted right.
the ads say it should pick up hay..
I think the wheels are not making contact with the ground when I hit the heavy cut grass clumps..
........jiminwisc.......

We had a big yard when I was a kid and our dad got big lawn sweeper. I guess the idea was it was easier than raking the big yard. It seems to me we used it for years so it must have worked.

 

[aart]

Brinly lawn sweeper

Like this?
My dad had something like that, but he pushed it.

 

[jvls1942]

the reviews say it will pick up just about anything. from acorns to hay.
the grass I mowed was like hay. in was plenty dry.. I think the sooner you sweep the better.
today I planted another section of pole beans
then I watered them in and watered in the first ones I planted a couple of days ago.
I did a no no and watered the tomatoes in the middle of the day. it will be alright because there was a nice breeze to dry them off.. I just couldn't let them go another day without water..
.......jiminwisc....

 

[jvls1942]

I went to the doctor.
He said : you have to quit eating so much fatty
I said : you mean like bacon and pork chops ?
He said: No, I meant, Fatty, you have to quit eating so much.

 

[Molpet]

I went to the doctor.
He said : you have to quit eating so much fatty
I said : you mean like bacon and pork chops ?
He said: No, I meant, Fatty, you have to quit eating so much.

 

[aart]

the reviews say it will pick up just about anything. from acorns to hay.
the grass I mowed was like hay. in was plenty dry.. I think the sooner you sweep the better

Of course they did...I never trust reviews much.
Probably a delicate balance between size of what you are picking up, length of grass picking it from, and height of brushes.
Keep playing with it and hopefully you'll find that balance.

 

[aart]

I went to the doctor.
He said : you have to quit eating so much fatty
I said : you mean like bacon and pork chops ?
He said: No, I meant, Fatty, you have to quit eating so much.

good lesson in punctuation!