My Little Hoop Coop

[fuzzi]

Mostly it's because your of cut isn't straight, won't line up

Actually, I don't think that's the problem. There's too much tension due to the cattle panels pushing the long sides outward, and I couldn't get the boards to line up, be flush. The cut was fine.

There's a tremendous amount of pressure being exerted outward against the 2x4s. That's why I am rethinking the assembly process, what I can do to keep the boards closer to being square.

I could line up the lumber and drill pilot holes. Some people have written that they drilled holes and used carriage bolts. I might have some of those in the miscellaneous hardware box. I just don't have the physical strength or tools to clamp those boards into position.

Thinking...

 

[fuzzi]

Got home after 5pm, and it was , damp, wind was going right through my fleece.

Friday's coming.

 

[canesisters]

I laughed at your comments, not your progress.

It was a super entertaining post

 

[canesisters]

You ladies are AMAZING!!!!


I don't know if this will help with the type of hoop coops your building, but when I built a simpler one as a feeding shelter for my old horse, I used a rope to keep the ends close.
I laid the panel out flat, then pulled one end over to meet the other & tied them together with a slip knot. Then I could sit it up on edge & let the knot out until the ends were about as far apart as I wanted them. Once I stood it up, it didn't fight me while I attached the bottom edges at the ground.

 

[Baymule]

I find it easier to build the frame first, square it up with a speed square. Then I lay a cow panel over the frame, with one end in the frame. Then I pick up the other end, but not on the very end, far enough up for me to comfortably reach. I take a couple steps forward, brace myself, lift and snap it upwards, and walk it up to the frame and drop it in. It’s kinda like trying to pop a kink out of a water hose sort of motion.

 

[fuzzi]

You ladies are AMAZING!!!!


I don't know if this will help with the type of hoop coops your building, but when I built a simpler one as a feeding shelter for my old horse, I used a rope to keep the ends close.
I laid the panel out flat, then pulled one end over to meet the other & tied them together with a slip knot. Then I could sit it up on edge & let the knot out until the ends were about as far apart as I wanted them. Once I stood it up, it didn't fight me while I attached the bottom edges at the ground.

I used bungees on the first hoop coop:

(yes, I document everything!)

 

[fuzzi]

I find it easier to build the frame first, square it up with a speed square. Then I lay a cow panel over the frame, with one end in the frame. Then I pick up the other end, but not on the very end, far enough up for me to comfortably reach. I take a couple steps forward, brace myself, lift and snap it upwards, and walk it up to the frame and drop it in. It’s kinda like trying to pop a kink out of a water hose sort of motion.

Here's my favorite gardener making a trellis. He demonstrates how to bend it if you don't have help:

 

[Mini Horses]

Wow...my panels are not that easy to bend. Way thicker metal it seems. . But the idea is great! Of course, mine are old ones, so they did make things sturdier then -- now it's like shrinkflation of metal
Fence used to be 10 gauge, now 14. Way thinner, lighter.

 

[fuzzi]

Wow...my panels are not that easy to bend. Way thicker metal it seems. . But the idea is great! Of course, mine are old ones, so they did make things sturdier then -- now it's like shrinkflation of metal
Fence used to be 10 gauge, now 14. Way thinner, lighter.

This is what I get, it says 4 gauge:

 

[Mini Horses]

Gauge & fence I was referring to is type used on posts . My panels are way heavier.