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Mike CHS
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Fred - it was pretty cheap to build also. All of the framing are ripped 2 x 4's so I doubt there is more than $25 for the frame and one sheet of siding.
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What? No scrap pile? No reject lumber, no cull rack stuff? 
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Bruce
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Teresa clearly doesn't understand how to source building materialsWhat? No scrap pile? No reject lumber, no cull rack stuff?
You will find that they all sleep on the highest level, if they can fit.
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Mike CHS
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There is plenty of room for them. The Barred Rocks were already claiming it as their own before it was done. Two of them were trying to lay eggs in the new nest boxes.
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I don't keep much scrap lumber myself anymore. Too much draw for insects. I have built lots of stuff out of lumber, including 2 hay barns but I'm about done with that kind of thing. I did acquire a LOT of floated in 2xs and some 4x4s in the flood, but burned everything that wasn't PT. I'll make feed troughs out of the PT stuff. If I need to build something out of wood, I cad it out, then buy exactly what I need and nothing left over except a few drops to burn. Only other thing I might build out of wood would be a 30 bushel bulk feeder for range meal, but I will probably just buy one or pay someone to turnkey build it for me.What? No scrap pile? No reject lumber, no cull rack stuff?
Steel tho, is a different story. I keep a LOT of structural steel, including about a dozen used 20' joints of 2"x6"x1/4" channel, all kinds of pipe, angle iron, square tubing, several hundred feet of rebar, and various I beams. Have a oxy/acet rig, 16" abrasive wheel chop saw, drill press, angle grinders, a 220v welder in the shop and a 160amp gasoline powered portable welder. Only thing I wish I had was a horizontal band saw.
Good job on the coop for sure, what little I know about chicken coops.
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I was getting ready to go out and dig the last few holes for the line posts when Teresa reminded me that I had 4 pork shoulders in the refrigerator that I am smoking for a church dinner. I'm going to throw a rack of lamb ribs a little later on for us. I guess there is always tomorrow for the fence. I'm going to be ready to start driving T-posts by Monday and hopefully Jay can come over and help me with that. The first time I had him drive posts he did something like 60 posts in about 45 minutes. That included the time getting the posts out to the site and setting them up.
60 posts in 45 minutes? 
That kid is a hydraulic powered pounding machine! Can I borrow him? I have about 6000' of perimeter line posts I could use help with!
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Mike CHS
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He was out on his own that day Joe. When I work with him I keep him at my pace or he would never make any $. 
That is very impressive none the less. You are very kind to slow him down and allow him to earn some money from his work. I could make a day (OK, maybe 1/2 a day) out of pounding 60 posts. Of course you could have always paid him based on the time it would have taken you to pound them 
ETA: Those are some really delish looking pork butts (shoulders) you have cooking there...
ETA: Those are some really delish looking pork butts (shoulders) you have cooking there...
