So…this isn’t staged at all. We walked out last night to put away the chickens and found this going on.
That’s 4 of our chickens just chilling in the grass sitting next to a ~12″ snapping turtle. After shooing the chickens past the turtle and getting them locked up, we (carefully) deposited the turtle into a bucket and freed it into a lake down the street.
This is something utilitarian I made for storing our home canned goods. I saw something similar on a /r/woodworking post and eventually got around to making it this past winter. I just “finished” it this past weekend when I sprayed everything with semi-gloss water-based polyurethane (Varathane). This was my first time spraying this finish and I am very happy with how it turned out. I used 3/4″ Maple Purebond plywood for the case and 1/2″ for the drawers. For the drawers I used simple pocket hole construction and glued/nailed the bottom on which is ok since it’s all plywood. With the case and drawers done, I glued up some Poplar for the drawer fronts. I used economical epoxy coated slides for all the drawers. It’s about 55″ tall and 24″ wide outside dimensions. An interesting thing is how the Poplar lost its green tinge and it turned a nice golden brown due to sun exposure.
Here’s an album of some build pictures:
