With the fences pulled down from the old chicken yard, I started mapping out where the new fence walls will go for the construction of the aviary. One of the things that I wanted to do when I started sinking the posts was to utilize some scrap PVC pipe that I would sink in the holes after drilling them out, with the intent of putting the posts into the pipes. Reason for this is so if/when the posts rot, they can be pulled out from the PVC pipes and a fresh one sunk without having to pull the concrete clod and redoing the entire thing, with a fence in place. With the first couple of posts established, I moved onto setting up the panels. I started off with a board against the north fence and tree. I used a salvaged piece of 4x4 which had a large hole drilled halfway into the board so the 4" deck screws can be drilled into the large board with enough coming out the other side to ensure proper attachment to the fence boards. At this rate I started getting panels hung up all the way to the tree on the side of the minivan coop. Since the panel that is against the tree extends out a couple feet, I was unable to sink a post to attach to the edge of the panel since the root ball would extend out from the actual tree. To fix this I drilled a hole a short way out, sunk another PVC pipe and will just have to use a couple of tie boards to attach the end of the tree panel with the end of the next panel. The post will be attached to the opposite end of the next panel so it will be like an extended fence panel. There would be one more post that needs to be sunk to terminate the fence run where the front of the aviary will be. The last fence panel was trimmed by a couple feet as it wasn't needed. I could've sunk the last post out enough to utilize the whole panel but I had my front wall established in my mind, where it would be a couple feet out from the two cab coops. I don't want to use extra material where I don't have to. With the west fence established, I will be maneuvering the minivan coop to where it will sit back more into the area of the aviary. The ramp on the front of the minivan coop will need to be able to sit at a point where its inside the aviary and still have room to walk around as well as allow the chickens to be able to walk in and out with ease. Once that is done then we will get the east side fence panel set up as much as we can with the available materials.
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