Sitting at my desk sketching out the structure of the chicken coop as a 3D CAD model (lumber dimensions being very approximate; actual lengths will get marked up on physical pieces as cutting progresses).
A CAD model is good for examining that special relationship. Examining spatial relationships. One of those things.
Like: the way I was planning to mount the roosting bars seems fine... right up until one of the rails to support them fowls the entrance to the nest boxes. Fouls the entrance. Something like that. ("Little does he know that I've never played with a fowl in my life." - Moriarty)
So... rails up a little, boxes down a little. Now I need to review the guidelines for roosting bar and nest box heights.
Better to find these things in a CAD sketch than after cutting and attaching a bunch of wildly overpriced cheap lumber.
And, I gotta go to the post office tomorrow to pick up Amazon packages - yes, we're back to that again - and I guess I'd better take the truck and pick up a couple more 2x2s, 'cause it looks like I'll be using more 2x2 and not so much 1x2 as I'd originally imagined.
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