time has caught up with me we've got chicks everywhere!
chick!
two chicks, chick, bigger chick,
chick, chicks chicks down here.
so basically I've been leaving it really late to get the
second pigeon loft built so I need to go get some
screws and nails and get that thing built.
[Music] so with that I jump into my VW pigeon Polo transporter mobile thing head over to
the shop to buy some goodies to turn this pile of wood into a pigeon Loft [Music] [Applause]
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it's like being back at school and waiting until the last possible day before you get
your homework completed now that we've got chicks hatching out I need to start pulling
my finger out and get this uh Loft built anyway let's turn this into a palatial loft shall
we?
well it's going to be 12 foot wide so not huge but it'll be fine for what I need but
before that there's the job of ringing the chicks and this is where you put the life
ring over their leg and this is something that I'm not that good at so this is a life
ring and these go on these chicks and it should never come off and we put them on upside down
like this and then apparently this is the second one I've done so I'm not great at it
I'll just leg out and put the first three toes through and then pull that last Toe Through
come on there we go
every bird has to have its individual ring number and because I have a memory of a gold
fish I have to keep this record on my phone so I can access it before I try and put the
rings on the birds so let's have a look all right by ring number three I've pretty much
mastered this so it'll be upside down
could quite easily have deleted that three toes through
there we go well just about got you one didn't we
let's have a look at the size of yours oh you're ready too we're probably ready to stick
them all on actually to look at these guys
they're still quite small so that one we can wait this is white tip she's a good mum she
had a she was a blank so we've had to float one of her eggs
so I'm using this Egger board as the floor which I've used a lot in the extension and
it's great stuff it's waterproof and really quite tough so it'll take a fair bit of scraping
abuse and then I've got the CLS stuff to to make the framing out of unfortunately I've
left it all outside for a few days so it's a bit damp [Music] for the frame I literally
just rested it on some breeze blocks and hammered it in with six inch nails I'm not putting
quite as much effort into the base of this Loft as I should have done so this one I'm
literally just going to put some blocks down and then I'll level it up with slate the main
reason for that is it's on quite a bit of a slope and I just haven't got the time or
I can't be bothered really I'm completely lazy with this one I didn't actually want
to build this Loft I just wanted to buy one now that I've put the frame together I'm just
going to double check that it's Square and so we're 4065 mil 4075 so we're just slightly
out
for the frame the main frame I'm using this six by two which is uh in new money that's
150 mil by 50 mil and it's tantalized so this is good stuff however I didn't order quite
enough because I thought that the egg board would need 600 mL gaps between the joists
it doesn't it needs 400 mil gaps so I've had to use some of the CLS which isn't the strongest
treated or anything um but it'll do because I turned what should have been a 10 minute
trip into a three hour filming session for the intro of this episode I was quickly running
out of daylight make it look like [Music] that's right
okay [Music]
add glue [Music] to help Bond the board so I don't have any affiliation with these but
these screws are brilliant they sort of they drive home really really well but because
they don't have a they have this uh I forget what's called like a star it's got a proper
name for it isn't it a drive bit whatever it's called T10 Drive bit anyway but they
don't leave much of a screw head but they're really really good I bought these they're
quite expensive but I just like them I use them for everything now [Music]
and this should in theory just sit neatly
into that like that [Music]
I should point out that I was feeling a bit under the weather so mistakes weren't made
I should really have been wearing gloves [Music] this product is for professional use only
I'm not one of those skin contact occurs immediately wash and rinse thoroughly with water and a
mild cleaning agent
ugh and after gluing my hands together it was then the turn of my tools oh I've got
glue all over it
I've got glue I've got glue oh
not content with chemical burns I demonstrated how to get wood in the eye
oh Jesus Christ all right I'll wear gloves and I'll wear goggles
next time
The following afternoon I was feeling much better and the Loft was really starting to
take shape foreign [Music] foreign
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well actually I'm pretty happy with this so far I think a few more things left to do I've
got to finish the trim just at the top there and then felt it then I'm going to put the
perspex in here and I've got to decide what I'm going to do with the aviary whether I
do one long Aviary or I have two separate aviaries and a trap in the middle that I can
then divert the birds into because I've got a I've got two sections in this Loft but overall
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