Three Dogs Farm and Timber: The Finished Monster

When I started the Chicken Tractor, I did everything by hand. I was using a hand saw, a hammer and a tape measure. The electric table saw and miter saw finally came out when my husband started helping, It made it a lot easier to cut plywood. I just had a problem getting it out of our garage shed...going up and down stairs with equipment is a bit of a problem for me at this point, they are kinda of heavy and my knees were still bothering me from going up and down the ladder when we painted the inside of the house. We did use a wireless hand drill and screws to put the chicken tractor together, it makes for a very sturdy structure.

I put the cage wire on with large fence staples by hand. Later on we got out the compressor and my husband showed me how to use the stapler for that. I put additional staples in with it...yeah, it was much faster, and yes...it takes less time. So I started tacking down the wire with it and using the fence staples for extra strength. My husband made the large four foot by four foot door on the front of the chicken tractor. I made a smaller door at the rear under the coop section while he was doing that...I had a different vision for the front door, but so as not to use as much wood, he made it differently. I am glad it is larger now, the only problem I have with it, is that the ground is so uneven out here, the door is hard to open at times. The door does make a good fence when open, I can use the door and put the additional run I made up to the open door to give the chickens 8 more feet of space to semi free range. I can drag the run around the yard to green areas for them to clean up...they eat everything in an area, every weed, blade of grass, grub, grasshopper and whatever else there is. It is great for clearing garden areas.