Hey Robert, I know you've been going through a tough time recently but I just wanted to let you know how many times I caught myself smiling because of you throughout this video! The little things, like your legs walking up a few seconds behind the rest of you, towing it with your mower, calling it a chicken mobile home. Please know your audience really does appreciate all the work you put in, and although you may not feel it yourself, I just wanted to let you know you were a ray of sunshine in my day today. And also thanks for not being scared to talk about your emotions in the other video last week! (From someone who's been on meds for over 20 years now)
Holy cow (or... bird) what a project! Am I the only one here who wants you to equip the inside with a webcam or two so we can watch the birds settle in and enjoy their new home?
@@UnderDunnOfficial Newest Patreon perk: access to 24/7 chicken coop endless live stream third channel. Heh, sorry for suggesting the idea after you'd already completed building the whole structure, though! 😁👍
I love how you are asking "what did I do to deserve this" right after telling them "I'm stealing your eggs" 🤣 Love the new coop....and I agree with the others, we need a webcam...
You're very right. After I put the top windows in I realized I should've made them hinged so I can flip them open for vents. Heat doesn't seem to be a problem, but stinky likely will be
Not just that, but you can tell already that the glass is a big ol' tease for the poor birds who end up hitting a solid object where they thought a nice cool window was. 😢 That glass has to go, for the safety of your birds, even if you just end up leaving the windows open.
I hope you made sure to seal up the installation foam, because they will start eating it. Cover it either with thin wood or plastic. I can garantee they'll eat it, as they did the same with my house installation while we were fitting it up on the outside walls :D
I had several chickens a few years ago, just for the year; and even I know not to have anything but wood available for the chickens inside the coop. First vid I've seen, however seemed like both a waste of money and an excuse to show of his CNC. 2x4's, nails and bolts, OSB, foam, some corrugate metal, random glass, and I still can't see how the BOM is over $1000...
I built some rabbit hutches similar to this. To solve your cleanup problem, elevate the carcass and lay corrugated steel sheets at a backward slant. This "poo-chute" will redirect the mess to a collection area while leaving the front pristine.
This video was so enjoyable and had too many great moments for me to comment on all of them, so instead I'm going to offer unsolicited criticism. The peel-and-stick was probably a great idea, however I think you should have painted the osb with a sealant first. It reminds me of the previous bathroom floor in my current rental home - peel-and-stick vinyl on swelling and disintegrating hard board. Thanks for another banging video!
@@mlindholm yeah, and thinking about it further, it will probably last just fine. It's not like the chickums will be walking around the floor dripping wet after a hot shower, and occasionally backing up the toilet by taxing the disrepaired plumbing.
I'v made same mistake in one of my rooms, one of my cats hates litterboxes and instead, he used floor, all peel and stick bulged while OSB underneath swallowed from cat's urine...
Chicken - watch me try to fly through the pretend window Turkey - watch me peck the guy stealing my eggs even though it clearly doesn’t work Human - hold my beer, I’m going to push your new house through my parked car.
About waterproofing the hinge on the cleanout hatch: I would've used a flexible, thin, waterproof material, put that on the inside of the top wall piece, have it come through the joint where the hinges are at, and let it overlap the bottom/hatch wall piece on the outside. Then screw on the hinges on top of that material. That would pretty much guarantee that water can't come in at that point. It's the same technique we use in (western) Europe to make a watertight connection between a brick wall and a roof that ends against that wall. Put a slab of lead (or lead replacement these days) in between the brickwork , so it sticks out on the outside, and make that overlap the joint between the roof and the wall. If done right, it the lead even goes into the cavity wall, through the insulation, all the way to the interior wall, so no water can continue down through the construction. Works great.
Wouldn't there be a risk of water running down the outside of the top piece, then pooling at the joint (water sitting on top of the waterproof material), and rot setting in at the base of the top piece?
@@Berkeloid0 Maybe a tiny bit, but that could be prevented by having the top piece a bit higher, something like half an inch would probably do. Water would never pool that high, plus with that gap the waterproof material is now likely to be at a 45 degree angle, so water will just shed away.
One thing I would suggest for a (two-story!) chicken coop is some ventilation, I’d suspect it would get a bit stuffy in there; just some small gable vents at the top of the sides would probably suffice
To be honest you have the funniest woodworking videos that I have seen on TH-cam. It's kind of also nice seeing that you mess up and being able to make a joke about it and then fixing it. That level of honest is nice.
Robert, considering the personal stuff you have been going through, your cheerful and fun nature shines through. The coop isa amazing. It’s not the fact that it is so over the top - which to me is fabulous- but the care and pure skill that you have in creating such things. It looks amazing and as a person who can’t stand all the throwaway cheapness we have these days, this is wonderful. Top effort Rob!
OMG, I have tears in my eyes from watching your misadventures in how not to build a chicken coop. Thank you. I wish I could thumb this up more than once.
Fantastic video. I sure appreciate your editing. You sure put a tremendous amount of work into this video. All those cuts! You made a half hour video fly by with there never being a dull moment. Always enjoyed your work.
I moved a 1000 lb swingset by rolling it on pvc pipes. It worked great and was very stable. We rolled it about 200 yards moving the back pipe to the front as we went.
16:48 My school's shop has a (literal) TON of panes that look exactly like that. The school has no clue where they appeared from, and I may have taken a few during slow shop days. You never know when thin, long panes of glass will come in handy!
@@paul66766 That's what I figured. They were probably removed from the building years ago, and the people doing the renovation didn't know what else to do with all the glass. There were a bunch in the supply room of the old university machine shop I used to work in for my undergrad workstudy gig, too, which were removed during an "energy efficiency" rebuild in the '80s.
14:20 Another option to cover the gap on the hinges, is to use innertube of a bike, or a strip of leather. 23:00 for fire safety, doors must open outwards 😂 Nice build, but this isn't a chicken coop anymore, it's a Hilton hotel 😉
I saw the thumbnail and thought to myself “wow this guy is emulating the aging wheels thumbnail style” until I clicked the video! Love you’re branching out to non car related content. Keep up the good work
Especially being able to build in your shop, I would advise a nibbler or even a sheet metal blade for your circular saw instead of the snips. I hate using snips to cut across those D-rib metal panels.
I was helping my buddy put new aluminum panels on his gooseneck trailer, we got maybe 3 panels in before he went and bought an M12 nibbler. Saved us some much time that I refuse to work with sheet metal without one.
Hi Robert, next time you're framing, try gang or plate nails. They're those galvanised plates, -- straight, bent or U-shaped that hold joists together and more or less, just hammer on, as the nails are punched out of the plate. Much quicker and more stable than dogbone joints.
Pampered chickens. You included "ow-takes" at the end. Each project a learning experience. I found the chickens efforts to fly through the fake glass openings funny. I can imagine some predatory animal, whether four legged or winged, knocking itself silly trying to go through these fake openings.
Neat! Will we get some sort of hidden camera footage from inside in the future so we can see how they are acclimating to their new home? Also the scene with the coop on its side was PRICELESS (Don't worry about spoilers, nobody reads the description, much less the comments! )
The editing on this must have taken forever! But what a great creative path and final result. I wish more woodworking projects were like this and to the point. Excellent work!
Any reason you chose not to use pocket screws to assemble the frames? And how come you used a cutting wheel to trim off the damaged roof but not to cut the steel in the first place? Great project and love the editing.
14:40 - Regarding weather-stripping the joint with the hinge... Did you consider maybe using weather-stripping IN the hinge area... you know... like how your front door of your house is weather-stripped? Both Lowe's and Home Depot sell rubber weather-strips that will stick to one side of the joint that compresses and seals when the door closes where it meets the frame.
That might stop the water getting in, but will it stop water from sitting at the joint where rot could set in? You don't want to block the water, you want it to run away from the joint to avoid rot.
@@Berkeloid0 Most of those joints are either vertical or angled down. It's just the two horizontal ones you have to worry about. He doesn't have any kind of bevel on them to allow for that. I'd say a simple round over, coupled with the rubber gasket, he'd be fine. And a decent latex paint should keep the water out of the ends of the boards to prevent wicking.
Love the coop, and agree with everyone that said you need a camera to spy on the birds. And easy way to cut tin like that is to sacrifice a saw blade, turn it backwards in a circular saw, and carefully cut your tin. Just watch for sparks and other debris. Cut ALOT of soffit this way in my home building days. Keep up the great work, and your humor is spot on, love it!!
Not my dayjob or anything close but: why not paint the whole interior to limit how much chicken detritus works its way in to the walls? And especially the floor where the cheap stick-on vinyl tiles have gaps between them that are going to get infiltrated? And why the emphasis on weather stripping the hinge when my instinct is that your focus should be on getting rid of water?
You need to add ventilation up top because each chickens produces 10 watts of heat, 10 birds equal to a 100 watt light bulb and their poop puts of ammonia.
I remember when you showed us the first set of birds. You have kind of grown past that now. You are slowly moving into a bird farmer and not a bird enthusiast .
I'm not a bird enthusiast anymore. I was, but then one of the eggs I put in the incubator was rotten and exploded. The incubator is in the kitchen. I don't have a kitchen anymore
@@UnderDunnOfficial You have a sulfur pit with a refrigerator now. That was cursed by the creatures that Ben Franklin thought were strong enough to represent the people of the newly formed used United States. Not that this will make your wounds feel any better. Of course it does give you a chance on making an Under Dunn video on how to clean that smell out of a kitchen as a follow up.
Nice upgrade for your poultry. I'm hypnotically addicted to your way of editing. Please never change. And thanks for the laugh at the end. Injury joy is the only true joy. If you are not affected yourself, that is ... 😂
That ain't a chicken coop, that's a chicken castle! I must say, I cringed when you started cutting that steel roofing with tin snips. There is a much easier way, and I'm sure you have the tools to do it. Just take your circular saw, and put in an old blade you don't care about ruining, but put it in backwards. Not quite as good as a saw made for metal, but way faster and cleaner than snips. Just make sure you wear gloves (as you found out) and especially earplugs. It's LOUD.
I love that you put that much time and effort in for the birds. We have 4 🐔🐔🐔🐔 and they follow me around our garden like loyal dogs. the Ow! scenes had me giggling like a kid again. I love what you do on this channel, thank you for sharing.
"And three months have passed" This is the exact moment in the video where I lost it. I know that feeling my guy. The videos both here and on the other channel are so entertaining, I like seeing someone tackle a project while not knowing what may be involved. With intention of learning new things.
For the access door joints in the walls why not use a 45 bevel cut (French cleat style) on both the upper and lower pieces with the bevel running down toward the outside. Then place the hinge pin centered over the visible joint line (outer/lower side of the 45) the door will hinge up as you want but when closed make a almost invisible seal that will not leak. 19:20 Maybe add a counterweight on a pulley and rope to make opening the door easier. Use a piece of PVC pipe and fill it with sand for the weight.
Thanks for being your comical self! I love watching your videos. You 1) make me laugh, and 2) not feel like the only one who makes mistakes. Love your creative solutions on the fly. Never change! You're halarious!!!
Your craftsmanship is amazing and your editing is first-rate, so you make difficult stuff easy to watch. Add in the humour and it's a winning package. I hope the birds are respecting their new home (and lots of young turkeys into the mix - you may need to make another coop...). I'm watching this at the end of July and we had literally TWO DAYS of heatwave (40C in one very sunny spot) in England last week, which the media labeled as a climate apocalypse, so when I see/hear people dealing with that kind of thing all through summer, they get my sympathy!
My chickens don't mind the snow. I do put up plastic covered frames over the run walls and under the coop, but leaving 6" gaps at the top of the run for ventilation. I also close the windows of the coop in the winter but there's loads of leaking air in it, just not a direct breeze into the coop. I also dump a bale or two of hay on the run floor and use chopped hemp as bedding in the coop. That seems to be fine for the winter. And doesn't stink in the summer.
Yay, this channel is still alive!! I really like your woodworking vids. They're extremely entertaining and informational. Although I know absolutely nothing about woodworking and probably will never do any carpentry in my life, you got my seal of approval!
1. I'm a long time watcher and your ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness never ceases to amaze me. 2. I think you're one of the few TH-camrs who REALLY deserves your ad revenue. So so much care and time and effort goes in to each and every video you make. I hope I live to watch every video till you retire :)
Fantastic! The solution for a long hinge that is waterproof is a "Hurricane Hinge". They are used on the galley of teardrop camper trailers. Not cheap, but would have fit with the overkill of this project. LOVE IT!!!
I loved this video, not only for how pleasing is seeing you work, I really enjoyed how you edited it, is really fun to watch. Also liked how well you took the fall of the coop. Its really good to see that there are good woodworking videos on youtube that are not about making tables with epoxy resin.
I'm not sure what's the most enjoyable, the project, or you humour! Really enjoyed this project, got me trying (yet again) how to build one for our minuscule space, thanks for sharing!.
i really love yourr editing style. it's hilarious to see the little things alot of people would miss. like that pair of legs walking up to you floating in the air when talking..
Your editing is just amazing, I've always loved it~ Especially when you're cutting, it almost makes it funny and catchy to hear, also your cloning is hilarious and really well done
also if you want to check if an egg is fertilized without cracking it open, there are ways to tell without doing that if i remember correctly you can do it with a light and just holding up the egg to the light to see if any things there
I used to rent mobile homes (I was a trailer park landlord lol) and those peel and stick tiles are anything but water proof. Used in the kitchen or bath, the OSB underneath was molded in under 2 years.
I wish you hadn't gotten rid of the video where you explain about the importance of mental health. I have seen it at least a dozen times, and it was helping me get the courage to go, myself. I love the video, as always. Your creativity is impressive.
Robert, piece of advice for steel roof cutting, angle grinders. It was something my carpenter granddad taught me. Lot less effort for a cleaner edge, lot less hand slicing.
Fabulous, Robert! It was overcomplicated, had numerous unnecessary and cost enhancing add ons, took incredibly way to long to make and will likely increase your property taxes! But, for you (and the silly birds!) it was well worth it! Your very dry wit and humor make me think you are a "bit on the mend" from your recent travails- a lot of us out here do care if it goes well for you-our days are always some better and brighter when Robert has had the opportunity to shine into our lives, too! Or you can drive down to Florida- that bunch of wackos will give you something else to think about! Vroom Vroom, Robert! FR
Great video. Reminds me of so many projects Ive taken on that become more than what I started. And when the tie-downs broke loose pulling the house back up I laughed till in tears. Too close to home, just insult to injury on a pain in the butt job. Glad you captured it and posted it.
I WANT TO GO BACK IN TIME AND TELL MY YOUNGER SELF THAT, ONE DAY, FUTURE ME WOULD ENTHUSIASTICALLY WATCH A VIDEO OF A DUDE MAKING A CHICKEN COOP. THE FUTURE IS WILD, MAN. LOVE THIS CHANNEL.
Hey Robert, I know you've been going through a tough time recently but I just wanted to let you know how many times I caught myself smiling because of you throughout this video! The little things, like your legs walking up a few seconds behind the rest of you, towing it with your mower, calling it a chicken mobile home. Please know your audience really does appreciate all the work you put in, and although you may not feel it yourself, I just wanted to let you know you were a ray of sunshine in my day today. And also thanks for not being scared to talk about your emotions in the other video last week! (From someone who's been on meds for over 20 years now)
I couldn't say this better, I feel the same way. Also the rhythm and sound of the sped up sections was also very pleasant/funny.
You stated that perfectly.
thanks for putting this into words :)
guess I missed that video... I looked at his channel, and the only other video I saw before this one was 6 months ago
@@Brian-mp2mv it's on his aging wheels channel
Holy cow (or... bird) what a project! Am I the only one here who wants you to equip the inside with a webcam or two so we can watch the birds settle in and enjoy their new home?
I've for some reason never thought of that. I like that idea!
@@UnderDunnOfficial Newest Patreon perk: access to 24/7 chicken coop endless live stream third channel. Heh, sorry for suggesting the idea after you'd already completed building the whole structure, though! 😁👍
@@UnderDunnOfficial Coop Cam. We need it!
Yes! This!
Yup we need a chicken coop to watch the chicken poop 🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣 and maybe lay some 🥚🍳
Things I Never Thought I'd See dep't: A man parbuckling a capsized chicken coop with a pickup truck.
oh his lawn mower for that matter!
Never thought I’d see a chicken RV
You were so close to having your next AgingWheels video be "I Broke My Windshield Cuz I'm Dumb".
i have destroyed the 69 likes, for that i am sorry
I was yelling "gloves" at my screen while you were cutting the roof sections just before you cut your hand. Love the new chicken SUV!
I was thinking "gloves" as he was constantly being pecked while trying to steal eggs.
i was screaming gloves the entire episode
I scream gloves all the time for no reason.
I scream GLOVES! when I wake up at night, covered in cold sweat
I was screaming 'gloves' while he was trying to break the tempered glass.
I love how you are asking "what did I do to deserve this" right after telling them "I'm stealing your eggs" 🤣
Love the new coop....and I agree with the others, we need a webcam...
I recommend you switch the top window glass to wire mesh. Without ventilation it'll get really hot and stinky.
Oh dang, that might've been a good use for the "fake" windows too instead of getting more glass.
You're very right. After I put the top windows in I realized I should've made them hinged so I can flip them open for vents. Heat doesn't seem to be a problem, but stinky likely will be
Yeah, ventilation is a serious need for a chicken coop for their health.
Not just that, but you can tell already that the glass is a big ol' tease for the poor birds who end up hitting a solid object where they thought a nice cool window was. 😢 That glass has to go, for the safety of your birds, even if you just end up leaving the windows open.
he could also put one of those spinny things ontop like we did for my coop
After watching Matthias Wandel for years, I feel like "I used the CNC router" is your version of "on the band saw" lol
Now I kinda want to see Robert to do a test jump on his coop
I hope you made sure to seal up the installation foam, because they will start eating it. Cover it either with thin wood or plastic. I can garantee they'll eat it, as they did the same with my house installation while we were fitting it up on the outside walls :D
We used foam as foundation for the coop, and yes the chickens eat it. They also turned the underside of the coop to a sand-bath xD
I had several chickens a few years ago, just for the year; and even I know not to have anything but wood available for the chickens inside the coop.
First vid I've seen, however seemed like both a waste of money and an excuse to show of his CNC. 2x4's, nails and bolts, OSB, foam, some corrugate metal, random glass, and I still can't see how the BOM is over $1000...
@@boots7859 Maybe the additional cost is from some new tools and the extra high price of lumber back then?
"I'm usual, but I'm not cruel" has got to be my most-favoritest-bestest quote ever, Robert! Nice build, BTW! 👍
you mean "UNusual"
I built some rabbit hutches similar to this. To solve your cleanup problem, elevate the carcass and lay corrugated steel sheets at a backward slant. This "poo-chute" will redirect the mess to a collection area while leaving the front pristine.
This video was so enjoyable and had too many great moments for me to comment on all of them, so instead I'm going to offer unsolicited criticism. The peel-and-stick was probably a great idea, however I think you should have painted the osb with a sealant first. It reminds me of the previous bathroom floor in my current rental home - peel-and-stick vinyl on swelling and disintegrating hard board. Thanks for another banging video!
Seconded on the sealed OSB. Too late now, but an idea for when the floor needs replacing.
@@mlindholm yeah, and thinking about it further, it will probably last just fine. It's not like the chickums will be walking around the floor dripping wet after a hot shower, and occasionally backing up the toilet by taxing the disrepaired plumbing.
I'v made same mistake in one of my rooms, one of my cats hates litterboxes and instead, he used floor, all peel and stick bulged while OSB underneath swallowed from cat's urine...
Oh man, i never get bored with your excellent editing skills. Done so well.
Chicken - watch me try to fly through the pretend window
Turkey - watch me peck the guy stealing my eggs even though it clearly doesn’t work
Human - hold my beer, I’m going to push your new house through my parked car.
About waterproofing the hinge on the cleanout hatch: I would've used a flexible, thin, waterproof material, put that on the inside of the top wall piece, have it come through the joint where the hinges are at, and let it overlap the bottom/hatch wall piece on the outside. Then screw on the hinges on top of that material. That would pretty much guarantee that water can't come in at that point.
It's the same technique we use in (western) Europe to make a watertight connection between a brick wall and a roof that ends against that wall. Put a slab of lead (or lead replacement these days) in between the brickwork , so it sticks out on the outside, and make that overlap the joint between the roof and the wall. If done right, it the lead even goes into the cavity wall, through the insulation, all the way to the interior wall, so no water can continue down through the construction. Works great.
I hadn't thought of using a flexible material for flashing or z trim but in an application like this it wouldn't be too hard.
Wouldn't there be a risk of water running down the outside of the top piece, then pooling at the joint (water sitting on top of the waterproof material), and rot setting in at the base of the top piece?
@@Berkeloid0 Maybe a tiny bit, but that could be prevented by having the top piece a bit higher, something like half an inch would probably do. Water would never pool that high, plus with that gap the waterproof material is now likely to be at a 45 degree angle, so water will just shed away.
One thing I would suggest for a (two-story!) chicken coop is some ventilation, I’d suspect it would get a bit stuffy in there; just some small gable vents at the top of the sides would probably suffice
I bought one of those Diablo Steel Demon blades for my 7-1/4" Skilsaw the last time I had to cut roofing panels. It made things so much better.
To be honest you have the funniest woodworking videos that I have seen on TH-cam. It's kind of also nice seeing that you mess up and being able to make a joke about it and then fixing it. That level of honest is nice.
Robert, considering the personal stuff you have been going through, your cheerful and fun nature shines through. The coop isa amazing. It’s not the fact that it is so over the top - which to me is fabulous- but the care and pure skill that you have in creating such things. It looks amazing and as a person who can’t stand all the throwaway cheapness we have these days, this is wonderful. Top effort Rob!
Love the sneaky editing at 9:25
I loved how the chicken kept flying into the windows
I never get tired of the way he cuts repeated mindless tasks like sawing or nail gunning or screwing.
the amount of editing in this video is absolutely insane! you have outdone yourself!
OMG, I have tears in my eyes from watching your misadventures in how not to build a chicken coop. Thank you. I wish I could thumb this up more than once.
Fantastic video. I sure appreciate your editing. You sure put a tremendous amount of work into this video. All those cuts! You made a half hour video fly by with there never being a dull moment. Always enjoyed your work.
I moved a 1000 lb swingset by rolling it on pvc pipes. It worked great and was very stable. We rolled it about 200 yards moving the back pipe to the front as we went.
That's a time-honored technique, though I feel like the builders of Stonehenge would've used an F150 if they'd had access to one. :)
"now that my jacket is 90% sawdust" got me. If the router wasn't that dusty, it'd just be too overpowered
just in case you were wondering. Yes we saw the editing trick you pulled at 9:24. nice one :D
"Diagon-ally" bits. This is why I love this channel. The perfect Harry Potter reference in a video about a Chicken Coop.
This is DEFINITELY not under done. This might be the most overbuilt anything, ever….
The video as well as the coop.
HOW am I only finding this channel now?? I now have a whole new bunch of things to watch - this makes me happy.
16:48 My school's shop has a (literal) TON of panes that look exactly like that. The school has no clue where they appeared from, and I may have taken a few during slow shop days. You never know when thin, long panes of glass will come in handy!
My guess is they're from Jalousie windows.
@@paul66766 That's what I figured. They were probably removed from the building years ago, and the people doing the renovation didn't know what else to do with all the glass. There were a bunch in the supply room of the old university machine shop I used to work in for my undergrad workstudy gig, too, which were removed during an "energy efficiency" rebuild in the '80s.
I would have cried watching that coop fall over. Great video! I'm sure the birds love it!
14:20 Another option to cover the gap on the hinges, is to use innertube of a bike, or a strip of leather.
23:00 for fire safety, doors must open outwards 😂
Nice build, but this isn't a chicken coop anymore, it's a Hilton hotel 😉
This was the best non boring chicken coop build I’ve ever seen! Thank you for all the details with a splash of comedy!
I didn't realize how entertaining it would be to hear Mr. Dunn say ouch 50 times
It makes a great ring tone...
All of the high-speed "just the business" cuts are fantastic
26:00 you need to make a movable partition which can push them back away from the eggs.
I saw the thumbnail and thought to myself “wow this guy is emulating the aging wheels thumbnail style” until I clicked the video! Love you’re branching out to non car related content. Keep up the good work
Especially being able to build in your shop, I would advise a nibbler or even a sheet metal blade for your circular saw instead of the snips. I hate using snips to cut across those D-rib metal panels.
I was helping my buddy put new aluminum panels on his gooseneck trailer, we got maybe 3 panels in before he went and bought an M12 nibbler. Saved us some much time that I refuse to work with sheet metal without one.
Or the kind of snips that remove a narrow strip of material between two blades, allowing you to work from only one side of the piece you are cutting.
Nibblers are OK and MUCH quieter than using a standard wood blade on my circular saw, though the saw is much quicker
Hi Robert, next time you're framing, try gang or plate nails. They're those galvanised plates, -- straight, bent or U-shaped that hold joists together and more or less, just hammer on, as the nails are punched out of the plate. Much quicker and more stable than dogbone joints.
9:25 for those that didnt pay attention to the legs.
Was about to make a similar comment then I saw yours. - I had to pause & rewind just to laugh again.
The ending man, I can smell that coop through the screen. I haven’t had chickens in decades but seeing that had me walking down olfactory memory lane.
I’m impressed at how terrified you make me of woodworking tools lol
Pampered chickens. You included "ow-takes" at the end. Each project a learning experience. I found the chickens efforts to fly through the fake glass openings funny. I can imagine some predatory animal, whether four legged or winged, knocking itself silly trying to go through these fake openings.
Neat! Will we get some sort of hidden camera footage from inside in the future so we can see how they are acclimating to their new home? Also the scene with the coop on its side was PRICELESS (Don't worry about spoilers, nobody reads the description, much less the comments! )
The editing on this must have taken forever! But what a great creative path and final result. I wish more woodworking projects were like this and to the point. Excellent work!
Any reason you chose not to use pocket screws to assemble the frames? And how come you used a cutting wheel to trim off the damaged roof but not to cut the steel in the first place? Great project and love the editing.
I can’t believe a I’m subscribed to AG but never discovered this channel until now, my life became a little bit better today
smidge = 2.35 skoshes... got it.
English to metric. Didn't you learn anything in school?
@@WayneMoyer I'm more curious why it wasn't 2.54 skoshes...
@@joshuahulce5630 Because he was focused on building this for the chickens and not the turkeys.
9:36 for some reason this sounds very musical. I honestly could loop it for hours
14:40 - Regarding weather-stripping the joint with the hinge... Did you consider maybe using weather-stripping IN the hinge area... you know... like how your front door of your house is weather-stripped? Both Lowe's and Home Depot sell rubber weather-strips that will stick to one side of the joint that compresses and seals when the door closes where it meets the frame.
That might stop the water getting in, but will it stop water from sitting at the joint where rot could set in? You don't want to block the water, you want it to run away from the joint to avoid rot.
@@Berkeloid0 Most of those joints are either vertical or angled down. It's just the two horizontal ones you have to worry about. He doesn't have any kind of bevel on them to allow for that. I'd say a simple round over, coupled with the rubber gasket, he'd be fine. And a decent latex paint should keep the water out of the ends of the boards to prevent wicking.
The tape saying "and gravy" took me a second but I love it
It's always good to use expensive tools to make cheap tools!
Love the coop, and agree with everyone that said you need a camera to spy on the birds. And easy way to cut tin like that is to sacrifice a saw blade, turn it backwards in a circular saw, and carefully cut your tin. Just watch for sparks and other debris. Cut ALOT of soffit this way in my home building days. Keep up the great work, and your humor is spot on, love it!!
Not my dayjob or anything close but: why not paint the whole interior to limit how much chicken detritus works its way in to the walls? And especially the floor where the cheap stick-on vinyl tiles have gaps between them that are going to get infiltrated? And why the emphasis on weather stripping the hinge when my instinct is that your focus should be on getting rid of water?
oh the edit on that hammering out of the pieces was really satisfying
You need to add ventilation up top because each chickens produces 10 watts of heat, 10 birds equal to a 100 watt light bulb and their poop puts of ammonia.
Easily one of the BEST CHANNELS on TH-cam. Thanks. Have A BLESSED DAY. 😎🇺🇸
I remember when you showed us the first set of birds. You have kind of grown past that now. You are slowly moving into a bird farmer and not a bird enthusiast .
I'm not a bird enthusiast anymore. I was, but then one of the eggs I put in the incubator was rotten and exploded. The incubator is in the kitchen. I don't have a kitchen anymore
@@UnderDunnOfficial You have a sulfur pit with a refrigerator now. That was cursed by the creatures that Ben Franklin thought were strong enough to represent the people of the newly formed used United States.
Not that this will make your wounds feel any better. Of course it does give you a chance on making an Under Dunn video on how to clean that smell out of a kitchen as a follow up.
@@WayneMoyer _Content!_ 😁👍
Nice upgrade for your poultry.
I'm hypnotically addicted to your way of editing. Please never change.
And thanks for the laugh at the end. Injury joy is the only true joy. If you are not affected yourself, that is ... 😂
That ain't a chicken coop, that's a chicken castle!
I must say, I cringed when you started cutting that steel roofing with tin snips. There is a much easier way, and I'm sure you have the tools to do it. Just take your circular saw, and put in an old blade you don't care about ruining, but put it in backwards. Not quite as good as a saw made for metal, but way faster and cleaner than snips. Just make sure you wear gloves (as you found out) and especially earplugs. It's LOUD.
I can't explain how much joy your videos bring me. The woodworking is great but it's your dry sense of humor that always brings me back. Thanks!
I love that you put that much time and effort in for the birds. We have 4 🐔🐔🐔🐔 and they follow me around our garden like loyal dogs. the Ow! scenes had me giggling like a kid again. I love what you do on this channel, thank you for sharing.
I love that not only are you still using the split screen clone editing trick, but you keep finding new ways to keep it novel
Hi I live in the UK I have to say your videos make me smile I can spend hours watching them
"And three months have passed" This is the exact moment in the video where I lost it. I know that feeling my guy. The videos both here and on the other channel are so entertaining, I like seeing someone tackle a project while not knowing what may be involved. With intention of learning new things.
I'm so glad you posted something new for your woodworking channel. I was scared you were done!
The chicken shooting brake joke killed me. 10/10 chicken coop build video
For the access door joints in the walls why not use a 45 bevel cut (French cleat style) on both the upper and lower pieces with the bevel running down toward the outside. Then place the hinge pin centered over the visible joint line (outer/lower side of the 45) the door will hinge up as you want but when closed make a almost invisible seal that will not leak.
19:20 Maybe add a counterweight on a pulley and rope to make opening the door easier. Use a piece of PVC pipe and fill it with sand for the weight.
You're editing skills and just audience engagement is amazing
Thanks for being your comical self! I love watching your videos. You 1) make me laugh, and 2) not feel like the only one who makes mistakes. Love your creative solutions on the fly. Never change! You're halarious!!!
Academy award nominee for best editing.
Your craftsmanship is amazing and your editing is first-rate, so you make difficult stuff easy to watch. Add in the humour and it's a winning package. I hope the birds are respecting their new home (and lots of young turkeys into the mix - you may need to make another coop...).
I'm watching this at the end of July and we had literally TWO DAYS of heatwave (40C in one very sunny spot) in England last week, which the media labeled as a climate apocalypse, so when I see/hear people dealing with that kind of thing all through summer, they get my sympathy!
My chickens don't mind the snow. I do put up plastic covered frames over the run walls and under the coop, but leaving 6" gaps at the top of the run for ventilation. I also close the windows of the coop in the winter but there's loads of leaking air in it, just not a direct breeze into the coop. I also dump a bale or two of hay on the run floor and use chopped hemp as bedding in the coop. That seems to be fine for the winter. And doesn't stink in the summer.
Yay, this channel is still alive!! I really like your woodworking vids. They're extremely entertaining and informational. Although I know absolutely nothing about woodworking and probably will never do any carpentry in my life, you got my seal of approval!
These videos are awesome. The time lapse at 9:36 tickled something in my brain
That is the most adorable thing I have seen all day. Well done on the new house and new baby turkeys.
That legs catching up with you bit early on was amusing. That shooting brake joke was hilarious. Love your videos, man
1. I'm a long time watcher and your ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness never ceases to amaze me.
2. I think you're one of the few TH-camrs who REALLY deserves your ad revenue. So so much care and time and effort goes in to each and every video you make. I hope I live to watch every video till you retire :)
Fantastic! The solution for a long hinge that is waterproof is a "Hurricane Hinge". They are used on the galley of teardrop camper trailers. Not cheap, but would have fit with the overkill of this project. LOVE IT!!!
I loved this video, not only for how pleasing is seeing you work, I really enjoyed how you edited it, is really fun to watch. Also liked how well you took the fall of the coop. Its really good to see that there are good woodworking videos on youtube that are not about making tables with epoxy resin.
You should team up with Mark Rober to make something super cool, maybe like a super complicated squirrel maze?
I'm not sure what's the most enjoyable, the project, or you humour! Really enjoyed this project, got me trying (yet again) how to build one for our minuscule space, thanks for sharing!.
i really love yourr editing style. it's hilarious to see the little things alot of people would miss. like that pair of legs walking up to you floating in the air when talking..
Your editing is just amazing, I've always loved it~ Especially when you're cutting, it almost makes it funny and catchy to hear, also your cloning is hilarious and really well done
also if you want to check if an egg is fertilized without cracking it open, there are ways to tell without doing that if i remember correctly you can do it with a light and just holding up the egg to the light to see if any things there
Yep, that works fine. You can buy special torches for it, but any bright light works really. Something with a narrow focus beam is probably easiest.
When the coop tipped over was a sad moment but glad its ok and you saved it im sure the chickens and turkeys will love the new home
The timelapse/skip of bolting/screwing things is perfect.
I love your videos Dunn, I hope you're back, because I've missed your content.
I used to rent mobile homes (I was a trailer park landlord lol) and those peel and stick tiles are anything but water proof. Used in the kitchen or bath, the OSB underneath was molded in under 2 years.
I wish you hadn't gotten rid of the video where you explain about the importance of mental health. I have seen it at least a dozen times, and it was helping me get the courage to go, myself.
I love the video, as always. Your creativity is impressive.
If you're talking about his older one, it's right here: th-cam.com/video/dUmYRhOFH1o/w-d-xo.html
Robert, piece of advice for steel roof cutting, angle grinders. It was something my carpenter granddad taught me. Lot less effort for a cleaner edge, lot less hand slicing.
9:36 that was very jerobeam fenderson-y, loved it
Fabulous, Robert! It was overcomplicated, had numerous unnecessary and cost enhancing add ons, took incredibly way to long to make and will likely increase your property taxes! But, for you (and the silly birds!) it was well worth it!
Your very dry wit and humor make me think you are a "bit on the mend" from your recent travails- a lot of us out here do care if it goes well for you-our days are always some better and brighter when Robert has had the opportunity to shine into our lives, too! Or you can drive down to Florida- that bunch of wackos will give you something else to think about! Vroom Vroom, Robert! FR
Great video. Reminds me of so many projects Ive taken on that become more than what I started. And when the tie-downs broke loose pulling the house back up I laughed till in tears. Too close to home, just insult to injury on a pain in the butt job. Glad you captured it and posted it.
Not everyone crash-tests their chicken coops!
You sir, have gone above and beyond!
Man it feels like just yesterday you built that first coop! How the time flies..
I WANT TO GO BACK IN TIME AND TELL MY YOUNGER SELF THAT, ONE DAY, FUTURE ME WOULD ENTHUSIASTICALLY WATCH A VIDEO OF A DUDE MAKING A CHICKEN COOP. THE FUTURE IS WILD, MAN. LOVE THIS CHANNEL.
Yes, new Under Dunn video! Love your style! nobody makes woodworking as fun to watch as you!