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summer projects

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:45 am
by grunt
So.. I figured I would post pics of the projects I am working on this summer so if any one else got the crazy Idea of build a root cellar or putting up a chicken coop, it might give them a hand.
First the coop in progress
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My wife and my neighbor and my neighbor's wife squareing up a 12ft pole
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and now the dig out for the root cellar we hope to also get don't this summer.
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More pics will come as I progress. :big afro:

Re: summer projects

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:56 am
by John *.?-!.* cub owner
I have lived in houses smaller than that chicken coop. :lol:

Re: summer projects

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:53 pm
by grunt
Half of it is going to be the run when there not free ranging and the other half a garden. The coop per say will be in the middle and each year we will flip flop the run and the garden so we can have fertilizer.

Re: summer projects

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:21 am
by KETCHAM
The price of eggs and chickens,this might be a great idea.I think the last dozen eggs I got were $1.69.ouch.Kevin

Re: summer projects

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:12 pm
by Uncle Mike
I am REAL interested in seeing how that Root cellar turns out. Have a plan for my own, but always ready to learn from another.

Re: summer projects

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:46 pm
by Billy Fussell
Grunt,

Your idea of flip floping the garden and chicken run will work good. Mother said that is what her Dad did. Plus all the chickens scratching and pecking the ground will help keep out unwanted grass. Grandpa only put his vegatable garden in there.

Billy

Re: summer projects

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:09 pm
by schmibm
How do get the wife to help let along the neighbors wife? You must really be good. :big afro:

Re: summer projects

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 1:51 am
by grunt
This is what I am using as a guide to the root cellar. It is a very easy and use full guied.
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-underg ... 594&sr=8-2

I like most of the Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins. Good info!!

Re: summer projects

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:17 am
by Tim Martin
Question... what the heck is a root cellar? I have never heard of one.

Re: summer projects

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:20 am
by grunt
its where you put the bodies when you run out of other spaces to bury them.

Re: summer projects

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:31 am
by Tim Martin
I used Wikipedia to get the answer and the idea is pretty neat, although I have a basment with a tornado shelter that stays pretty darn cool already. I could imagine that the root cellar would be even colder if dug 8-10' deep. Does anybody here have pictures of their root cellars?

Re: summer projects

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 8:56 am
by Boss Hog
timmartin wrote:Question... what the heck is a root cellar? I have never heard of one.



HA HA HA That where you keep your roots,:D You no Taters , turnups etc.
Thats how you keep them during the winter They want freeze below ground and will keep well
David

Re: summer projects

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:56 pm
by grunt
There is also a watermelon that will keep well through December in a root cellar. I hope to have Christmass melon and make it a family traditon. You can also store preped meat and if you gell coat fertile chicken eggs they will keep for 6months. Yep fresh veggies in the middle of the winter. I cant wait.

Re: summer projects

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:58 pm
by grunt
Here it is now..
We just got the roofing material so we will be putting that on soon.
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OH .. I had to throw this one in. I have allot of new fruit trees and grapes and I found the culprits :oops: eating my new cherries off my cherry tree. :lol:

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now she gots to teach her sister to spit out the pits

MIND you they are IN the wire.

Re: summer projects

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:59 pm
by grunt
Well the coop is still coming along.
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and the footings for the barn are being put down.

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and the beat goes on..
The forms were pulled yesterday looks good. Now the hard part... back fill.