Hoop height calculator?

[Sefirothe]

I know I saw a calculator or maybe a infographic on how tall/short a hoop coop could be made depending on how wide you make the base.

I'm drawing blanks trying to search the forums for it tho.

Anyone got it bookmarked?

 

[NatJ]

I know I saw a calculator or maybe a infographic on how tall/short a hoop coop could be made depending on how wide you make the base.

I'm drawing blanks trying to search the forums for it tho.

Anyone got it bookmarked?

I don't know about finding it on BYC, but there is one I've found several places on the internet:
https://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4860656

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1156935537680311/posts/29052493204364503/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/yahoo-image-search--129267451774293013/

Hopefully at least one of those will help. (They all look like the same picture to me, I just don't know which link will actually behave properly when I try to put it in a post.)

 

[StinkyAcres]

I don't know about finding it on BYC, but there is one I've found several places on the internet:
https://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4860656

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1156935537680311/posts/29052493204364503/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/yahoo-image-search--129267451774293013/

Hopefully at least one of those will help. (They all look like the same picture to me, I just don't know which link will actually behave properly when I try to put it in a post.)

That's the one I used.

 

[Sefirothe]

I don't know about finding it on BYC, but there is one I've found several places on the internet:
https://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4860656

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1156935537680311/posts/29052493204364503/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/yahoo-image-search--129267451774293013/

Hopefully at least one of those will help. (They all look like the same picture to me, I just don't know which link will actually behave properly when I try to put it in a post.)

Yep, that's the one I was looking for. Thank you!!

 

[Folly's place]

Wish I'd seen that long ago! Ours are about 5' tall, bearable but not best. The trade-off is between floor space and height, unless you add a taller wood base frame, which will also add a lot of weight.
Mary

 

[Sefirothe]

Wish I'd seen that long ago! Ours are about 5' tall, bearable but not best. The trade-off is between floor space and height, unless you add a taller wood base frame, which will also add a lot of weight.
Mary

I'm actually planning out a garden hoop trellis, but the constraints are similar. I actually want a low height because I'm short and will need to be able to reach the cucumbers planned for this to pick them!!

 

[NatJ]

Yep, that's the one I was looking for. Thank you!!

I did a google image search, and put in any terms I could think of. Kept changing them until I got the picture I recognized

 

[Cobber]

A somewhat related question. My wife and I are contemplating building a coop, with a hoop coop over part of the coop.

I need to figure out not the overall height, but how wide the hoop coop would be at about five feet above ground, to accommodate the overhanging eaves of the anticipated coop roof.

There are some interesting websites on the internet to work with catenaries, but my math skills are totally inadequate I'm afraid.

Maybe it's easier to simply butt the hoop coop up against the coop, which may be what we end up doing.

Does anyone know of a calculator to determine cross sections of the hoop coop at various heights above the ground?

 

[NatJ]

A somewhat related question. My wife and I are contemplating building a coop, with a hoop coop over part of the coop.

I need to figure out not the overall height, but how wide the hoop coop would be at about five feet above ground, to accommodate the overhanging eaves of the anticipated coop roof.

There are some interesting websites on the internet to work with catenaries, but my math skills are totally inadequate I'm afraid.

Maybe it's easier to simply butt the hoop coop up against the coop, which may be what we end up doing.

Does anyone know of a calculator to determine cross sections of the hoop coop at various heights above the ground?

Unfortunately I do not know of a calculator.

What are you trying to achieve? I'm having trouble visualizing it.

Are the eaves going to dump water inside the hoop coop? That could be a problem in most climates.



Two possible ways to work without exact numbers:

How wide is it going to be? Working with a 16 foot cattle panel, and looking at the images above, any width over about 10 feet will make the top height less than 5 feet.

For heights over 5 feet, you could pretend the top is as wide as the bottom of the hoop area. That should give more clearance than you need, but depending on how precise you


One way to get exact numbers: bend the cattle panel and measure. This can be easier if you stand the cattle panel on its edge (so it looks like a curved fence instead of a hoop coop), and use something straight to help you measure (maybe put the bottom of the arch along one edge of a driveway or one wall of a building, then measure out 5 feet from that on each side, then measure across the arch of the cattle panel at that point.)

 

[Cobber]

Unfortunately I do not know of a calculator.

What are you trying to achieve? I'm having trouble visualizing it.

Are the eaves going to dump water inside the hoop coop? That could be a problem in most climates.



Two possible ways to work without exact numbers:

How wide is it going to be? Working with a 16 foot cattle panel, and looking at the images above, any width over about 10 feet will make the top height less than 5 feet.

For heights over 5 feet, you could pretend the top is as wide as the bottom of the hoop area. That should give more clearance than you need, but depending on how precise you


One way to get exact numbers: bend the cattle panel and measure. This can be easier if you stand the cattle panel on its edge (so it looks like a curved fence instead of a hoop coop), and use something straight to help you measure (maybe put the bottom of the arch along one edge of a driveway or one wall of a building, then measure out 5 feet from that on each side, then measure across the arch of the cattle panel at that point.)

She is thinking of having the coop half under the hoop coop, and the rest sticking out. I think we probably won't end up going that way, but right now that's what she's interested in.

Setting up a panel in place and experimenting with the dimensions may be the quickest way for us to figure it out.

I figure if the hoop coop is 7 - 8 feet wide, it will be between 5 and 6 feet and change at the apex. The devil is in the detail, however, at five feet above the ground what the width of the coop will be. We don't have supplies on hand, but we're going to check out a neighbor's hoop coop to measure. One of our neighbors is a math prof, so maybe he could decode this mystery.

My math skills, such as they once were, are now totally non-existent.