Our Shipping Crate Coop - finally finished!!! (pic heavy)

[mar013q]

this is awesome!

 

[wolftracks]

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You need to build another one and enter the coop contests with it. You discription helped me figure out more of what to do. Thank you.

You guys did just an awesome job. You should be very proud of yourselves.

 

[gryeyes]

Oh, now I have serious coop envy. Worse case I've ever experienced. That is SO gorgeous!!!

 

[nightshade]

that is awesome! I love the roof.

 

[SteveBaz]

Very nice Moogie. I have a project coming up soon and I thing you have given me some what of a great idea. If my wife gets the job she has been interviewing for we will be moving approx 1700 miles if the other job comes through we will be relocating as well but only 800+ miles. Either way we will be moving if the positions come through. I have been giving some thought to how do we do this with the girls and a crate is a great idea so that we have a ready to move in coop when we get to the new area and have a home they are not only familiar with but one that functions the minute we touch down. You have given me the answer I think we need. Thank you.

 

[Moogie]

You need to build another one and enter the coop contests with it.

Build another one?

But I have wondered how to connect 2 or 3 crates to make a divided coop...

 

[jeeping31]

I wish I would have though of that very bright idea your coop looks very nice and you recycled.

 

[AuburnChickenNewbies]

What a GREAT looking coop! I love all the light your coop has. I agree that the weight of the windows/gravity and the relationship to the hinges you chose are why they're not closing by themselves. A simple solution might be to just put a stopper at the bottom of the windows. You could just use a piece of wood on a swivel and turn it to keep the windows closed when you want. Love the 'chunnel' too! I know when we moved our girls out to their new coop this last Fall, we did have to shooo them in and then close them in for a few nights for them to get the idea. Now we'll turn around early at dusk and the've put themselves to bed and it's time for us to go up and close up the coop.

 

[Moogie]

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Wow--I really hope one of those jobs works out for you and your wife! And I hope the crate coop works for you as well. Since they were made for shipping, with skids on the bottom, they're easy to load with a forklift -- which is how they loaded it on the trailer when we bought it. Now getting it off was a bit trickier with no forklift around here...so we just asked all our sons and nephews to help and they kindly obliged!

Good luck and I hope it all goes well for you!

 

[SteveBaz]

Moogie
I just realized that I was going to comment on the hinges also but did not in my post above. I think the reason your windows do not seat properly is the hinges are door hinges and are meant to close like a door and they are stretching open beyond the wood. You need to re-mount the hinges inside the window jamb and with a pencil mark the top of the window and chisel out the hinge and recess it the window frame like a door has the hinges recessed you now need to mark with a pencil the inside of the window frame and mark each side of the width of the hinge and then put the hinge and mark the frame with pencil and now chisel out the window frame and take the door hinge pin out and mount that side of the hinge. When your done now the 4 pieces of the hinges are recessed and they are ready for the window to slide in place and lace the hinges together and put the pin in and the window will not go into the frame without popping out as before. Think of a door mounted like the window. You would not mount the door hinges like that you would do it like a door so that's the way to correctly mount the windows with that type of hinge.