Finally, A Place To Sit - Building A Chicken Roost

Today was a good day! It rained yesterday, so the Big Man was able to have a couple days off from harvesting. Honey-do list time!

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Last Friday, I bought some materials to build our chickens a roost. While my mom watched the kids, I got to work. I was going to use a hand saw again, but quickly gave up and told myself it was time to learn how to use a circular saw.

Check! I was able to cut my boards to length in seconds. Ok, so they weren’t straight cuts, but there’ll be time for practice later.

Instead of using butt joints like I used on my gate, I decided to try rabbet joints. I used the circular saw for one cut, but didn’t feel competent enough to make the other cut.. so that’s why it turned out like this. Hey, it still worked!

After accomplishing a couple of those, I thought there’s got to be a faster and easier way to do this. That’s when I thought, why not hand drill into the board so the screws can reach further down?

Voilà! Now that is a redneck life hack right there!

Now you might be asking, “Why didn’t you just use a power drill?” I would have loved to! However, we borrow the Old Man’s because the Big Man hasn’t bought his own yet. And knowing my husband as well as I do, I knew it would have been useless trying to get him to remember where he put it last.

After finishing the front and back of the roost frame on a sweltering 83 degree day, I gave up and decided the rest could wait until I had access to more power tools.

Fast Forward to Today

We picked up the power drill from his parents’ place and got to work. The plan was to have the Big Man hold boards in place for me while I put everything together. Being the gentleman he is, he ended up doing all the work, while I told him what goes where.

The project got done so quickly, I didn’t even have a chance to take progress pictures! How did anything get done before power tools??

The Old Man’s powerful handy drill. It’s smoking hot...seriously, it was smoking.