Chicken Coop Farm Table
From Farm to Farm Table
From Farm to Farm Table
This project started with a post I found on Craigslist in the free section. The post said Free oak lumber from a chicken coop in Canton, GA, as long as you disassemble it yourself. The following Saturday I drove myself to The middle of nowhere and found in the bottom of a valley a chicken coop that the owner wanted gone. It hadn't been used for chickens for quite some time.
After 2 days of hard work and 2 very weighed down trips from Canton to Atlanta, I ended up with about 300 board feet of raw lumber and 10-15 sheets of rusted tin roofing. It took me a week to pull every nail out of the boards before I could start processing it. What started out as dimensional oak 2x4x16' ended up as finished 1.5x3'x8's. It took a lot of passes in the planer to get all the lumber to near the same size
The idea to make a farm table came from the wood itself. it was long, thick, and from a farm, to me it shouted "Farm Table!" The routed bands around the legs and along the Trestle bream were inspired by the banding on chickens legs. The Tin Inlay on the table top representing the tin roofing on the chicken coop. The table is designed to disassemble, with the legs and trestle beam being held in with removable pegs. The benches mimic this assembly with smaller pegs but are permanently assembled.
The legs were cut on a 3 axis CNC router, and then hand mortised to remove all curved edges. The table is 30" high x 35" wide x 83" long allowing for 4 people per side and one at the head and foot. The table was finished with tongue oil.
The table was a finalist in the 2007 AWFS student furniture competition, for which I got to travel to Las Vegas to see the AWFS show, and exhibit my piece. The piece was also featured in the book Freshwood vol3.
The table is for sale, please inquire about pricing.
After 2 days of hard work and 2 very weighed down trips from Canton to Atlanta, I ended up with about 300 board feet of raw lumber and 10-15 sheets of rusted tin roofing. It took me a week to pull every nail out of the boards before I could start processing it. What started out as dimensional oak 2x4x16' ended up as finished 1.5x3'x8's. It took a lot of passes in the planer to get all the lumber to near the same size
The idea to make a farm table came from the wood itself. it was long, thick, and from a farm, to me it shouted "Farm Table!" The routed bands around the legs and along the Trestle bream were inspired by the banding on chickens legs. The Tin Inlay on the table top representing the tin roofing on the chicken coop. The table is designed to disassemble, with the legs and trestle beam being held in with removable pegs. The benches mimic this assembly with smaller pegs but are permanently assembled.
The legs were cut on a 3 axis CNC router, and then hand mortised to remove all curved edges. The table is 30" high x 35" wide x 83" long allowing for 4 people per side and one at the head and foot. The table was finished with tongue oil.
The table was a finalist in the 2007 AWFS student furniture competition, for which I got to travel to Las Vegas to see the AWFS show, and exhibit my piece. The piece was also featured in the book Freshwood vol3.
The table is for sale, please inquire about pricing.
The chicken coop as I found it, folk artisans had stripped most of the roofing, but had left the structure intact.
Disassembling the coop.
processing the lumber
Scrap tin roof that would create the inlay.
CNC routed parts
Big glued up table top
Unfinished table with tin inlay
Finished table in studio
