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We stopped working at 12:30 rather than try to push through another section of skirting because while it's only 87F the humidity is rather awful and we need both our lunch and a break from the physical strain of me cutting wire on the ground between my feet and him kneeling on wire as he uses the fence stapler.
(Both the electric metal shears and the fence stapler are worth their weight in gold).
Because the coop steps down the slope we cut the skirt in 4-foot sections, adjusting it to each section's height and bent it in place with a piece of scrap board and overlapping the sections by a few rows of wire. Everything is pinned with landscape staples.
Those who can do math in their heads know what's coming next. Since the posts are 4' on center there is a gap at the end. The options were to make the overlap for safety or to sew every seam together with wire.
Much easier to overlap then put in a patch piece (this is why I haven't thrown out a scrap of wire bigger than my hand -- just in case I needed a patch somewhere).
Note that the cut to wrap the wire is very tight against the post (where there will eventually be trim boards), and that the landscape staples go through all layers of wire .
The entire skirt will eventually be covered in wood chips so we threw a few forks onto it to see how that was going to look. I like it -- though I maybe should have used chips from the new pile that is less broken down here under the nestboxes.
(Both the electric metal shears and the fence stapler are worth their weight in gold).
Because the coop steps down the slope we cut the skirt in 4-foot sections, adjusting it to each section's height and bent it in place with a piece of scrap board and overlapping the sections by a few rows of wire. Everything is pinned with landscape staples.
Those who can do math in their heads know what's coming next. Since the posts are 4' on center there is a gap at the end. The options were to make the overlap for safety or to sew every seam together with wire.
Much easier to overlap then put in a patch piece (this is why I haven't thrown out a scrap of wire bigger than my hand -- just in case I needed a patch somewhere).
Note that the cut to wrap the wire is very tight against the post (where there will eventually be trim boards), and that the landscape staples go through all layers of wire .
The entire skirt will eventually be covered in wood chips so we threw a few forks onto it to see how that was going to look. I like it -- though I maybe should have used chips from the new pile that is less broken down here under the nestboxes.
