{"id":1498,"date":"2011-04-04T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T15:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2011-04-04T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T15:02:06","slug":"chicken-coop-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Coop Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1499\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/snowday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1499\" title=\"Snow Covered Work Area\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/snowday.png\" alt=\"Snow Covered Work Area\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow Covered Work Area<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since the last photo of the chicken coop, I&#8217;ve started nailing down 2 x 3&#8217;s for a sub floor. Above you can see the first four rows, along with a nice covering of snow. The beams below the 2 x 3&#8217;s still needed to be cut off in this photo.<\/p>\n<p>If you look closely, you might spot my cat &#8220;boots&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1500\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/foundation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1500\" title=\"First Floor Boards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/foundation.png\" alt=\"First Floor Boards\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Floor Boards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The sub-floor is now complete, and I&#8217;ve moved on to nailing down rough cut boards for the floor. Since this building is far enough away from the house for power tools to be a real hassle, I&#8217;ve been using a chain saw to cut boards. I&#8217;ve found it&#8217;s not an exact science, and you need at least a 1\/4 inch room for error when cutting wood this way. It&#8217;s working well enough for now, although I think I&#8217;ll purchase a long extension cord for future use.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been careful to place the boards about 1\/8 of an inch apart to allow a bit of air up through the floor for ventilation. I&#8217;m hoping to finish up the floor in the evenings after work, and maybe this weekend I can start framing out the walls. I&#8217;d like to have the entire project complete by the end of the month, in time for incubating some colorful eggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the last photo of the chicken coop, I&#8217;ve started nailing down 2 x 3&#8217;s for a sub floor. Above you can see the first four rows, along with a nice covering of snow. The beams below the 2 x &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}