Portable “chicken coop” trailer

CoOverwatch

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So I have been lurking around the trailer builds for a few months now compiling idea’s for an Expo trailer to pull behind one of the suburban’s I am building.
Wife quickly put the brakes on any new project for me as I have the 2 suburban’s and the 48 willy’s currently in progress and she needs a new chicken coop
That she can move about the property.

So being the great husband I am I took stock of what I had laying around the shop/barn and set out on a full scale expo style “chicken coop” 
After 8 hours this is what I came up with.

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CoOverwatch

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Will pull down the side frame and skin it with ½ OSB board and duplicate for the other side.
Top will get framed up and might even create a hinged top with some door screen material to vent during the hot summer days.
Front will also have a hinged door to access the nest boxes, or I might create a slider to pull the nesting box out the side for easy access and cleaning.
Who knows… the hens might even enjoy having an outdoors nesting box during the summer.

Also, after rebuilding the break system on the suburban I went out for a test drive and low and behold a buddy up the street was unloading 3 small utility trailers.
So after helping him out with unloading them I dropped $250 for this little 6’ X 10’ tilt bed (14.5’ overall length) trailer. Trailer also has breaks. Who would have thunk it. 

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CoOverwatch

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Once everything is framed up I will put a few coats of bed liner on it to keep the weather out.
As I build this out I am creating a materials and cut list so I can reproduce the frame in steal. Not sure if I will skin it in steal or use Filon (or whatever the fiberglass panels are called)

Anyone see any flaws in my logic?????
 

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