Finished the wooden top structure for the enclosure for the soon to come land turtle.
It will get a kind of net to it (its purpose is to keep cats and birds of prey from messing with the turtle)
Made of white oak, with plenty of joinery and braces to keep it strong and stable.
Still a finishing here or there but I think I’ll leave it more or less rough sawn an untreated.
I am pretty sure it’s just an effect of the photos’ perspective, but it looks like there are stairs on the far side, leading out of the enclosure: Tortoises can climb by pushing themselves up! Keep that in mind when adding more interior to the enclosure. We had to pick up my mother’s tortoises at our neighbours quite a few time.
… and there was that one time when a neighbour “returned” a tortoise which wasn’t my mothers.
The irregular stones do protrude here and there. So that is also another reason why I built this - keeping the turtle inside.
It will be covered with a net or wire net or sth similar soon