How To Make A Chicken Tractor, Part Three

How To Make A Chicken Tractor, Part Three

Patti continues to build the chicken tractor. Sign up for her newsletter at www.gardengirltv.com

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Step 1:

Strapping

Flipping. Flipping. Look at that. Alright. So, I've got my strapping. Now, as you can see, this board here's a little warped. When you go to your lumberyard or your supply center, you've got to look at every piece almost.

Now strapping comes in bundles so it's really hard to check every individual piece. Some of them are going to bow a little. We're going to try and fix that as we're screwing it to the frame here.

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Step 2:

The Frame

I'm done with the frame. Can you believe it? The framing is done. And, as you can see, I can carry it myself. And, voila! Chicken tractor. We're done. All we have to do now is skin it now with wire.

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Step 3:

Wiring

Let me show you the wire I'm going to use. The wire I'm going to use is hardware cloth, half-inch hardware cloth. Now this is two-feet tall, basically, or wide, however you want to look at it, and it's nineteen gauge. The nineteen gauge, that basically corresponds to the thickness of the actual wire that's being used.