Post your Pop Door (and lock) pics

[jupitergirl]

We are about to start cutting into the side of our brand new chicken barn, and I want to be sure we are happy with the final product. We have decided on a up/down sliding door in a track, and are looking for pop door design and lock design ideas.

Thanks!!

Cheri in Wisconsin

 

[consdrs]

Mine is very basic. slides up and down in a track 12x12. I would make sure your door opening isn't on the floor level, leave a few inches so the bedding won't fall out all the time. mine have to kinda hop up to the opening. the wood dowel locks it open and locks it closed.

Connie

 

[will hunt for food]

Here are a couple of pictures of my set-up. The unpainted wood above the door is a stop-block. The unpainted wood above that is holding the pulley. The string exits at a 90 degree angle to the outside. Works great.

 

[BlackBart]

Mine slides up and down between runners and secures with a slide bolt.
Then I saw this one and wish I had made mine like it. I thought it was a clever design.

 

[Monk]

Here is my pop door. I use an cord tied to an eye bolt on the door, then ran the cord through another eye bolt on a rafter to open and close from outside the run. There is a loop knot in the cord that gets wrapped around a third eye bolt on the outside of the run to hold the door open. It works well, though I have been planning to replace the existing hinges with spring hinges too, hopefully soon.

 

[showme69]

I used a plastic cutting board from Wal-Mart for the door that slides in a wooden track. Works better than I ever thought it would.

A couple of the door while the coop was under construction. Well, it's still under construction even though the chickens are living in it now.

A view from the outside.

The pulley system connected to the door.

The pulley system anchor point.

 

[KDK1]

Locked

Unlocked

In Operation

 

[crystal195655]

Our Pop door has a sliding door that is in a channel inside the coop, operated witha pully system that I access from outside the coop. The weight of the door keeps it down and the trim on the outside makes it difficult to pry it up from inside the run....we hope!

 

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Here's my 2nd pop door and 1st automatic opener and my first post, wish me luck

I won't even post a pic of my 1st pop door, it was just a hole in the ancient coop I spent an hour one day attempting to redo. I just slapped up a couple scrap pieces for guides and tiny plywood scrap (8"x8") with a string pull. Never really worked but started my research ...
Then this fall I started my very first coop building project - a pallet palace I'm not finished yet and hope to post on the Coop Building page when finished this spring. But we did get it closed up enough to move in the chickens by then end of January.

Heres the pop door, "Treehouse" green with "Blue Ridge" on inside of trim and "Brilliant Blue" I plan to match on the window trim.


We will have to come through here with wheel barrel or sleds some times so added
the hinges to be able to pull up the ramp and get it out of the way when need be.



I've been digging through BYC site for over a year now for ideas and got it in my head I needed an automatic opener but didn't want to pay for a prefab. Then I found on the site "Automatic Pop Door Opener" with great step by step plans and all the pictures. I followed the plan and did it! Thanks BYC!

I got all the parts located or ordered on ebay, wired them together and sent my Dad a text that it was working but before he even looked at the pictures I emailed him...




he was here to help with the installation.


This is project complete

and it works! I have it hooked up to a timer to open and close - (still trying to figure out or fix the digital photocell timer). My chickens free range and are now out every morning at sunrise and I can watch from the warmth of the house. We still go out most nights, do chores at dusk, and round up the chickens that that are in the old roosts. But the door closes after dusk no matter who's in or out.

 

[DirtDiva]

Here's our pop door. Padlock installed at night....we live in coon country!