New Kennels Are Finished...Time To Go Hunting!

[Monteria]

Also...I am really jealous of your pens. Im not sure if we can hunt anymore.

Jealous, that's all? Come on, lets be serious man..... That makes me feel very inadequate..... 2" penis kind of inadequate! 

Steve

[aladatrot]

hehe....Bryant forgot to install the crystal chandeliers. Better get right on that.

Nice kennels for sure!
Cheers
M

[USHOG]

That is very impressive. Nice job

[cantexduck]

Also...I am really jealous of your pens. Im not sure if we can hunt anymore.

Jealous, that's all? Come on, lets be serious man..... That makes me feel very inadequate..... 2" penis kind of inadequate! 

Steve

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[wcg89]

good job them dogs are gonna be too spoiled now if any of them leave and go to a new kennel haha

[Bryant]

Thanks for the compliments.  I've been engineering this in my head for quite sometime.  The project started off enjoyable, but quickly turned to work.  I'm impatient, and was beginning to wonder if I would EVER finish.  My arms look like a druggie with track marks for those days when it was just too hot to make myself put a long sleeve shirt on before firing up the welder.

I'm still working (in my mind) on the water system, and possible automatic feeders.  I just haven't quite mastered how thats going to work quite yet.  I have noticed that for the few days they've been in there that a little dust does accumulate in the water buckets each day.  I'm just not certain a float-type system that keeps the buckets full without periodically emptying them will work.  Still thinking...

Also...I am really jealous of your pens. Im not sure if we can hunt anymore.

I might let you come see them in person if I can get on one of those "good places" I'm always hearing about.

Bryant,

      Very nice setup.  Are the posts welded to plates, sitting on top of the concrete, or did you drill the concrete and set the posts in it?

Chris,

When my guys were forming the slab, I handed him 44 weld plates for the kennels and a drawing on where they went.  After seeing the look on his face, no words were exchanged other than "let's just put those to the side and I'll drill them in after the pour".    Once the slab was poured, we layed out the kennels,  snapped chalk lines and went to work with a hammer drill.  I put four wedge bolts through each 4" X 4" plate.  Spent almost two evenings just drilling, then welded the drill stem to the plates.

I built a pigtail to run my mig welder off the 220volt generator of the bobcat welder.  I turned up the shielding gas and welded all my panels, doors, hinges, etc with the mig for a cleaner look.  Burned just over 20 pounds of mig wire.

[Cull Buck]

Bryant, I just talked to Sam.  He wants to come home....   I've looked at these darn pictures about 20 times already.....I have 5 sheets of mock drawings on graphing paper, the gears are turning and I can feel the check book getting lighter.

[Circle C]

Bryant,

   Something I noticed at the greyhound farm I was at last week, is that every single kennel and run had a "licker" installed.   I like the bowls myself, but I can't help but think with the farm having several hundred dogs, they were using the lickers for a reason. 

 I am assuming that you did not go with a center aisle, so that the kennels remain under the shade throughout the day. is this correct? or is there a different reason for having the kennel gates facing the outside?

[Bryant]

Chris,

Kind of hard to explain without seeing, but here's why the kennels face outside.  The two rows of kennels (front and back) do not back up to one another.  There is a two foot wide area between them which contains a drain trough that is 12" wide.  (We used the green sewer pipe to form it in the pics above).  This allows me to wash each pen front to back, everything hits the trough which also slopes to a drain in one end and then is plumbed under the slab and out to the septic tank.  The kennels all slope 2" to the drain, then the drain slopes 6" from one end to the other.

The framework, and panels all sit level which means that the panels are 1 1/2" off the ground at the gates, and 3 1/2" off the ground at the back which allows "turds" to be washed under them and into the trough.  I built temporary pieces of panel to put along the back of the puppy pens to keep the pups from getting out which can be removed when they grow.

There is a guy in San Antonio that has kennels that are very similar to what I built.  I used a lot of his ideas and pictures to build mine.  Although his trough is square and mine in round, here's his pic so you can get an idea what I'm talking about and what it looks like between the two rows of pens.

[Dexter]

Bryant
   like i said well thought out,, you probally got a better finish on the slab without all the weld plates   and they are all in the right place  also,, they would of been knocked around during the pour not to mention  having to finish around all the plates
  once again great job
   Dexter

[bob]

very nice , your dogs seem to be well taken care of. good man

[cutter26]

them some good lookin kennels

[nosightsneeded]

TAKE DOWN THE PICS ASAP!  MY DOGS WOULD RUN AWAY AND HEAD SOUTH IF THEY KNEW THEY COULD BE LIVING IN STYLE.  JK NICELY DONE BRYANT

[kevin]

Those are rediculous.   
 
 Are those Dee's kennels with the square trough?

[matt_aggie04]

I don't even know what to say man, that is a thing of beauty.  Really really nice job. 
MG

[jhy]

CADILLAC!!! Great Job and very well thought out.  I have been kicking around ideas about what I was going to build at my new place before I moved the dogs and I thought that I was going to have a sweet setup but this had made me rethink my whole design.

Joey

[aladatrot]

Joey,

You can make catch a kennel like Bryant made for his dogs, but just be aware that catch needs an elk hide bed in his. Overstuffed of course so he is very comfortable. He will also need some low lighting to add to the ambiance when he is entertaining the ladies.

I can see it now, Catch will have the ultimate bachelor pad kennel complete with a stripper pole. 

He's a good dog, it's okay to spoil him.
Cheers!
M

[matt_aggie04]

Bryant I think you should just go ahead and post a build sheet so we can start picking up what we will need to build one of these for ourselves.  How many feet (or miles) of drill stem, truck loads of concrete, tons of rebar, bundles of r-panel etc.  I get the "I wants" really easy man and these pics are NOT helping me right now 
Matt

[Bryant]

Matt,

I can tell you that lots of thought went into the planning stage before I broke ground so to minimize waste materials.  Lots of things such as the size I made everything was done to accomodate material sizes. Kennels were purposely made 5' X 15' because the panels came in 20' lengths.  One panel made a side and one door, etc.  I used 22 joints of drill stem, and other than the couplings I cut off each end I only had one single three foot piece left over.  

The kennels are a good distance from my house, so I had to also run almost 850' of pvc to get water down there.  I also buried electrical conduit, but got sticker shock when I went to buy the copper.  Not sure what I'm going to do about lights.  Don't you work for a power company now?   

If interested, or just to get ideas I have detailed records almost down to the number of screws it took to build it.


Kevin,

Yes, those are Dee's kennels.  He had some pups for sale a long time ago and I saw his kennels in the background.  I contacted him, and he took and emailed me a TON of pictures.  Several phone calls later, I had the beginning of my design.

[Circle C]

Matt,

    I know what you mean about the "I wants".   Mandi and I were sitting at lunch discussing moving the "boarders" out of our barn so that we can convert the back 36x48 section into pipe and panel kennels, with doors going to the existing 50x100 turnouts.