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Cut and Assemble Wooden Frame

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Upgrading the Chicken Coop with Worlds First Automatic Locking Door!

What happens here

The host measures the length of the door track system, which is approximately 24 inches. He then cuts two 24-inch pieces of treated 2x4 lumber for the vertical sides of the frame and a 12-inch piece for the top cross member. Treated wood is chosen for its weather resistance, and the host assures that modern treated wood is safe for chickens. He pre-drills pilot holes and secures the frame pieces together using deck screws, forming a 'U' shape for the door to be mounted within.

Goal: This step details cutting treated lumber to create a custom frame for the automatic chicken door and assembling it using deck screws.

Tools and materials

  • Circular Saw
  • Cordless Drill
  • Tape Measure
  • Deck Screws (Outdoor Type) Craftsman
  • Treated 2x4 Lumber Unspecified

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ourselves a little track area right here now folks bear with me here you don't have to get all hung up on the math you can just wing it that's what I'm doing here really don't need to read a whole lot of instructions all I need to do is cut to two by four pieces about the length of the track right here I'll show you exactly what I do okay so here is the track system and the track system is about 24 inches so we're gonna take it two by four and cut to 24 inch sections I am using a treated wood because it's going to be out in the weather the chickens aren't going to be eating the treated wood and treated wood nowadays is not like treated wood was years and years ago so not all those toxins and poisons in there at some point here on the channel we're going to be visiting a factory that makes treated lumber and treated post and we'll show you how that's done that'd be pretty fun now we need to go with the width of a chicken guard door and get ourselves all set up to see how wide the top of this will be so in other words we're just going to build a big you it's going to be upside down and our measurement is one clip we're going to be using my little pile of screws right here so this is a case that I keep all of my nuts and bolts and screws and whenever I buy something I will inevitably have a bunch of screws and stuff left over or I'll use a higher quality screw than what comes in the factory these are good screws by the way but I will put all that stuff in here and that way I can just grab this little container right here and go that makes life so so much easier so we've got some extra long wood screws right here okay so this would be the top we know that's going to be the top so we'll go ahead and get our screws lined up ready to go there we go these are just deck screws out door tight they'll definitely outlast the chicken coop we want to use nails you can use nails I've just found that nails tend to back out where screws won't ever back out this is a probably 20 minute install with about 10 minutes of good planning go frame is nice it's snug it's good to go now we'll put our chicken guard door on it I'm gonna try and square it up as even as we possibly can on its frame I'm gonna put two screws here and two screws here and make sure that it slides like it's supposed to I don't think we'll have any troubles comes with all that mounting hardware right here just part of it one more screw and we'll test the door what we'll drop one more screw then we'll test the…

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