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[perchie.girl]

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I bought the $19.99 panels from TSC and they are not as ridged as the others I have dealt with. I plan to build a triangle for each end with doors for access and I decided to make one more for the center just to keep it a bit more stable. I will strap or wire them to the panels and they will just keep it from twisting and such. I am planning to cover the top two with chicken wire first and if I like it, hardware cloth later. The bottom section will be on the ground and I will pull it along the ground every few days. I also have plans to add a detachable coop that I can secure them in at night, since the chicken wire covered panels will not stand up to a coon. I am relying on my LGD to keep them away, but would feel better if they were locked away safely at night.

give fastening them together a try. You'd be surprised at how much strength the wire to wire union will give it all.

My aviary panels are wishy washy flimsy to pick up but fasten them together along the edge and they become structural... They are 12.5 gauge. and a span of six feet by six feet will hold up.

those Cattle panels are advertised at 4 gauge.

4 gauge is just under a quarter inch. .225 dia
12.5 ga is jsut about a tenth of an inch .100 dia.

Galvanizing adds to the diameter of the wire... unless it was made in China...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

@Wisher1000

Oh and if you want to give it a try those zip ties are excellent for experiments.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

My DH gave me a laser guided electric miter (radial arm) saw for Christmas, year-before-last! I love it! All I have to do is set the dial to the angle I need - I just had to know that angle - and it will be easy to do the actual cuts.

I suck at cutting wood... Ima metal head.

deb

 

[bamadude]

Me neither

bed

 

[Beer can]

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You know how I figured out my angles when I built my 24'x28' two part, high open roof on one side low pitch on the other? All 2x6 construction. Just like any other redneckhillbilly would, by EYE! Brother-inlaw who has done construction asked what pitch it was.....??? I says I went up four foot on the 16' part, he says again what's the pitch?, well I don't know, he says I let you borrow my rafter square it was all on it (I couldn't figure it out). Just cut everything to fit, its level and square I don't know what the roof pitch is.

 

[Peep_Show]

Ahh, Bamadude, lighten up. You use math and geometry and don't even know it. Play pool? You're using the angle of refraction on your shots.

Your hangover is in inverse proportion to your sobriety.

 

[bamadude]

WHERE IS THE EXIT?????????

 

[perchie.girl]

" @bamadude You can't unsubscribe, you are our mascot!

" WooHoo! getting good now!

You know how I figured out my angles when I built my 24'x28' two part, high open roof on one side low pitch on the other? All 2x6 construction. Just like any other redneckhillbilly would, by EYE! Brother-inlaw who has done construction asked what pitch it was.....??? I says I went up four foot on the 16' part, he says again what's the pitch?, well I don't know, he says I let you borrow my rafter square it was all on it (I couldn't figure it out). Just cut everything to fit, its level and square I don't know what the roof pitch is.

the best carpenters are just by going by feel. AND knowing to make it square you have to cut critical parts the SAME size.

I still cant figure out how a goood framer knows how to cut the Birds eye and keep the roof level....

I spent too many times working with metal shops and when you get material it was always the same size. Wood mystifies me....

I do build with wood but I have to step away from the scale... A machinist term for a really accurate ruler... I grew up with scales and calipers and Yep slide rules....

deb

 

[Beer can]

Ahh, Bamadude, lighten up. You use math and geometry and don't even know it. Play pool? You're using the angle of refraction on your shots.

Your hangover is in inverse proportion to your sobriety.

You play pool by 'eye' also no geometry, just 'mad skills' gotta focus....

 

[Wisher1000]

Deb, it's good to know that the center triangle support may not be necessary. I can use that material for something else. The triangles on each end with have access doors, I just thought that with the panels being 16' long, a support at 8' couldn't hurt.

I have about 65 chicks in cardboard brooder boxes in the garage and I need to get them outside, and the cabinet incubator is nearly full. I don't know if I am going to like this or not, but I will give it a try. I will depend on my LGD to keep predators away, but would still like to attach a small coop that I can lock them into at night.

So far, I have hatched about 50 Campines. My goal is to raise at least 150 a year and 250 would be better. The breed needs so much work that the only way for me to make any measurable progress is to hatch as many chicks as possible. My problem is space............