My Chicken Tractor.

[perchie.girl]

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I will try to sketch it up later I have a bunch to do. But essentially its a charger that runs off the sun. insulators around the base to hold the wire off the structure and keep it from grounding. Then run one wire around the base of the coop. The other wire is the ground and it gets attached to a temporary post pushed into the ground to make the connections. Dog walks on grass is connected to the ground dog touches nose to wire on coop and connection is made. Zap. A fido shock would work. Whew they came up in price....

http://www.fishock.com/store/electric-fence-charger/bss-2lgx

There is also the option of doing a portable poultry fence Which consists of fiberglass posts that push into the ground and an electrified net and a charger setup is pretty much the same. All portable and movable and would allow your birds to be free ranged as big as the fence is. You still have to buy a fence charger for it though.

http://www.premier1supplies.com/poultry/species.php?mode=article&species_id=6

deb

 

[centrarchid]

I will try to sketch it up later I have a bunch to do. But essentially its a charger that runs off the sun. insulators around the base to hold the wire off the structure and keep it from grounding. Then run one wire around the base of the coop. The other wire is the ground and it gets attached to a temporary post pushed into the ground to make the connections. Dog walks on grass is connected to the ground dog touches nose to wire on coop and connection is made. Zap. A fido shock would work. Whew they came up in price....

http://www.fishock.com/store/electric-fence-charger/bss-2lgx

There is also the option of doing a portable poultry fence Which consists of fiberglass posts that push into the ground and an electrified net and a charger setup is pretty much the same. All portable and movable and would allow your birds to be free ranged as big as the fence is. You still have to buy a fence charger for it though.

http://www.premier1supplies.com/poultry/species.php?mode=article&species_id=6

deb

It is of interest to me when having tractors setup out of site. I wonder how multiple tractors can be kept hot using a single charger.

 

[Snortch]

As for the wheels, I just used the TLAR method of placing the holes (TLAR=That Looks About Right). I drilled the holes for the wheels and the pivot point half an inch in diameter and used half inch carriage bolts with a couple of washers between the wood and wheels.

 

[perchie.girl]

As for the wheels, I just used the TLAR method of placing the holes (TLAR=That Looks About Right). I drilled the holes for the wheels and the pivot point half an inch in diameter and used half inch carriage bolts with a couple of washers between the wood and wheels.

As a mechanical designer I use that TLAR method quite a bit. Its surprisingly efficient. when put into practice as Drawings and production lines and yata yata it usually only needs a tweak or two to make it reproducible.