Chook Mahal update: foundations and posts
Part 2 of the exciting saga (which commenced here).
We couldn’t get the tractor started, so using the auger to dig post holes was not an option. Uncle Dave suggested we use the old fashioned method and actually dig the holes. And so we did. Using the post-hole spade (a very narrow-bladed spade with a steel handle) to chip away at teh floor of teh hole and a shovel to dig out the debris. By alternating we soon had two quite deep holes.
The next day we got the tractor started (yay) so we used it to lift the sleepers into place in the holes.
Next I dug trenches between the posts and installed corrugated iton sheet to act as formwork for the concrete floor and to give that **** off fox look that is de rigeur in chook coop construction.
We’re currently attaching the beams; the weatherboard walls go on next. But this afrvo I’m off to town to get some cement and some nails etc.