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[Kmac1]

I like your deign, I like your bucket truck even more. Lol. I just learned how to post pics so here are a few of my coop. Please keep in mind that I have never ever built or attempted to build any kind of building in my life. This is my first attempt, and so far I'm pleased with how it has turned out. I used 2x6 for all the walls, I know it's a little overkill but the reason I used 2x6 studs is because I bought (30) 14' 2x6 boards for $1.00 each and then I bought a trailer full of misc treated lumber for $50, see photo. The plywood siding is 3/8 inch and was thrown in. I've made some mistakes but I'm having a great time doing this. I just had a hip replaced so that slowed me down for a few days. My chickens are already checking it out. Tell me what y'all think. Willie.

 

[Latestarter]

Coming along nicely @Kmac1 . Living in OK, I'm a bit surprised you placed the wood directly on the ground... Don't you folks get a bit of rain there? Are you concerned about rot? I know it saves money on building a floor... Also makes it better easier to do deep litter, long as you left yourself an easy way to dig it out every couple years.

 

[Gundawg]

I think it looks good Kmac1 half the battle is just getting started.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

3000 gallon water tank... just resting on a bed of very level gravel... it takes me ten days to fill it It is NOT plumbed to the house. but that booster tank below will deliver water at almost pressure jet pressures. Its Considered a fire tank and supposed to be used for that purpose but most people plumb them to the house to use as a buffer for low water days. I would love to have an additional one placed right behind this one and plumb that one to the house. with overflow from the front tank used to fill the back tank. Camper shell on the right is gone now... as is the truck with a camper on it... That belonged to my ex roommate. deb

Lucky but I don't need something that big is there anyway you can easliy connect that to your house and still have it cheaper than digging a new well?

 

[perchie.girl]

I like your deign, I like your bucket truck even more. Lol. I just learned how to post pics so here are a few of my coop. Please keep in mind that I have never ever built or attempted to build any kind of building in my life. This is my first attempt, and so far I'm pleased with how it has turned out. I used 2x6 for all the walls, I know it's a little overkill but the reason I used 2x6 studs is because I bought (30) 14' 2x6 boards for $1.00 each and then I bought a trailer full of misc treated lumber for $50, see photo. The plywood siding is 3/8 inch and was thrown in. I've made some mistakes but I'm having a great time doing this. I just had a hip replaced so that slowed me down for a few days. My chickens are already checking it out. Tell me what y'all think. Willie.

I am thinking those chickens had only one Beer after all that work.....

Good job but that last picture is priceless......

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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Oh yeah .... the plan is to "Find" the water lines and put in a valve to switch it over.... then have the water tank filled by a trickle.... That will save the booster pump at the bottom of the hill as well as take the stress off the Well pump. If I can do that then my water "issues" will be solved. But serious water conservation mode will still be in effect here... No water will be used out on the property for irrigation that hasnt been used first by me or hydroponics.

deb

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

A hydroponics system is a good idea, but it takes a lot of pvc pipe but pvc isn't very cheap.

 

[perchie.girl]

A hydroponics system is a good idea, but it takes a lot of pvc pipe but pvc isn't very cheap.

cheaper than a new well...

3500 every 100 feet 17500 for a five hundred food deep well. Then add on the Casing the Pump and electronics for another chunk of money. I am hearing figures of 25000 all said and done for a new well.

The plan (iam always in the planning stages) is to start with 250 gallon totes for the fish then build the auaponics off that eventually to comingle that water with the Grey water from the house in a grey water tank. that then will go through a natural system for water purificaton.... Hyacinth, Reeds, duck weed... then on to the fruit trees.

Here in the desert because it does get below freezing I can grow many stone fruits apples and some citrus... I cant dig the ground so veggies will either be aquaponics or raised beds I have plenty of natural much in the Horse corral.... LOL.

deb

 

[MeepBeep]

A hydroponics system is a good idea, but it takes a lot of pvc pipe but pvc isn't very cheap.

IMO PVC pipe is quite affordable, cheaper than most decent garden hose per foot in most cases...

Used IBC containers can be had cheap as well, get some Uniseals and you can chain them together with PVC quite easily and very affordably...

 

[MeepBeep]

cheaper than a new well...   3500 every 100 feet 17500 for a five hundred food deep well.   Then add on the Casing the Pump and electronics for another chunk of money.   I am hearing figures of 25000 all said and done for a new well.

Your desert region makes all the difference, in my area for irrigation and livestock watering (putting aside permits) you can hand drill a shallow well yourself on a weekend using PVC pipe and some muscle... Shallow well pumps can be had for about $100-$150, so you can basically drill and complete your fully functional shallow well in my area for a few hundred dollars and a weekend of work...

I have recommended this to even people living in suburbia (permits and legality aside) as a way to get untreated water aquariums and fish ponds...