Great job brother! I was looking for some other ideas to move our coop and so glad you created this video. I was thinking of a similar method but your idea is cheaper and a easy. Way to have your little man help you with it too. Keep rocking it dad. They need real MENtors in their lives!!
I did something similar on a 12x20 frame with a 12’x12’ coop 3 ft up in the air so the chickens can use the underneath area as part of the run to stay out of the weather. I mounted HF dolly wheels on each side of the bottom frame so my wheels stay on. I believe my wheels were rated at 500lbs.each and I have 10 wheels going down the length of each side. 20 wheels altogether on both sides. The wheels I bought are the kind you don’t need to put any air in. I didn’t want to deal with tire’s going flat! I actually put a trailer receiver on the front so I can hook on to the coop tractor as their called, so it’s basically set up just like a RV trailer that I can hook up on my truck and pull it anywhere on my property. When the chickens make a mess under the coop in the 12’x20’ run. Instead of cleaning up under it, I just move the coop /run to a new spot and let the area where the coop/run was compost itself into the ground got fertilizer and when the grass/weeds grow there I put the coop/run back so the chickens can eat the grass/weeds and bugs. Much easier and quicker than trying to clean inside a chicken run. I drilled my holes in my 2x8 on the bottom frame so my wheel set down 2” below the 2x8 frame so the wood never touches the ground. I built this going on 5 years ago and it still looks brand new. All the materials are treated and waterproof plywood with a plastic laminate on both sides of the plywood. Inside the coop fairly easy to clean with the plastic laminate on the floor not much sticks to it. Had no idea how well this was going to work when I decided to build it? But it actually turned out even better than I expected it to! But it wasn’t cheap, materials alone were over 6 grand and I built it back before the materials costs increase sky high! Probably cost $9 grand to build the same coop/run today if not more?
SEE, THAT IS WHY MEN, REAL MEN, WE JUST PUT A LITTLE THOUGHT INTO WHAT WE DO AND WE MOVE MOUNTAINS. AWESOME VIDEO. AND THE LESSONS YOU SON LEARNED... PRICELESS.
Enjoyed your video, very informative. My dad had a similar idea but likes yours better. Quick question, how big are those mending plates that you used as brackets? Greetings from Canada 😁
Sorry for the confusion but I only made 1 Set of Dollies. I placed this set under one side of the shed and I used my tractor (with fork lifts) to raise the other side.
So the chain wrapped all the way around the building and then attached to the front of my tractor on both sides of my forklift . It was used to rotate the building since it was in a tight space and also my tractor only had enough power to lift the building just a couple inches off the ground so I had to use the pulling power of the tractor to get it out of the back yard. Hope that answers your question. Thanks for watching
