DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

[chynasparks]

I got the idea of cattle panel whoop run from this forum. We finally completed one this weekend. There's pictures in my album. Can click on it to see. I didn't know you could hang those galvenized waterers. I have one, the directions on it tells me not to carry it by the outer handle. I like the hanger you made that keeps it level. I cant free range my little flock so this is a lifesaver. I move to a nice juicy area of grass and weeds and they do their thing. They've been cooped up in the coop on the sand.

 

[Beekissed]

I have a cattle panel coop also and hang water buckets from the wire with nylon ropes tied to this type of easy release clip.... my favorite kind....a sturdy, swivel fastener and easy to release and hook with just one hand. The beauty of cattle panel construction is that you always have a place to hook onto no matter how high or low you need to hang something. The panel construction also lends itself well to mounting roost poles...I just secure them to the panels with zip ties and you have a 2 min. roost mount. No nails, no screws, no wires...just zip ties.

 

[gigiok]

What ever glides on the wire will end up at the low point of the wire generated by the weight of the goods. To counteract that the wire has to be tensioned and sloped to assure the goods arrives at the destination rather than somewhere in the middle.Those zip lines have to be incredibly tight Like as tight as you would a guitar string. So hooking and unhooking couild be an issue. Do-able but an issue. Probably be easier to leave it there. Wire tends to go invisible over time. And degrades over time. If a wire under tension snaps for any reason it recoils.

To test out what I mean you can use clothes line and a pully and a small weight like a five pound sack of flour. hook it up and give it a push. It will slide to the middle and stop. Because the clothesline is level and probably not stretched as tight as you would think.

I was hit by a recoiled rope once when my horse pulled back and broke the snap. The half snap hit me in the chest and just about knocked me down. Of course rope is springier but cable is also springy especially over long lenthts.

I did some research on this myself a while back for the very same reasons. But I didnt persue it any further because I have no way to create the anchor points for a stretched wire.

deb

Yes, I was thinking about this problem. The good thing is I don't have to have a long line. I can back the car to the gate of the pen, hook onto the line and push the bag about 20 ft into the feed room. I think I can use three tensioners that you just screw to put tension on the line. Screw tight and then unscrew when you are finished. I think a rope line would have way to much give but a good steel line would have less sag. Plus a good pulley should roll easily, even a bit uphill. It might be easier than trying to carry 50 lb bags. Another 10 years and we'll be 70. I need to get things working either automatically or very easily.

 

[gigiok]

The large pipe is my drain for the sediment bucket. The fill tube runs up the back. I have to run a hose from my spigot to the fill tube.

Nice. I like this.

 

[gigiok]

I have these same waterers but I didn't know that I could hang them. This would solve the problem of constantly leveling my waterers.

Could you show some more pictures of the hoop houses you built? This seems like a great way to make a chicken run.

X3

 

[chynasparks]

I used a whole lot of zip ties on the stuff covering the panels. I had some green plastic fencing that fit all the way around it. Zip tied throughout to keep it in place. Also some garden netting toward the top. I know it's not completely predator proof but I don't intend for my peeps to be in it when I'm not home. It's just a "play pen" to get them in the grass. Zip tied a perch just like you said. Going to add one more.

 

[perchie.girl]

Yes, I was thinking about this problem. The good thing is I don't have to have a long line. I can back the car to the gate of the pen, hook onto the line and push the bag about 20 ft into the feed room. I think I can use three tensioners that you just screw to put tension on the line. Screw tight and then unscrew when you are finished. I think a rope line would have way to much give but a good steel line would have less sag. Plus a good pulley should roll easily, even a bit uphill. It might be easier than trying to carry 50 lb bags. Another 10 years and we'll be 70. I need to get things working either automatically or very easily.

BTW I am by myself and have no honey to do stuff and I get about with a walker. Here is another thought.... I have always wondered how they load Feed in those automatic game feeders that are up on stilts. We are talking hundred pounds at a time for Game. I found this greate video on Youtube..... this is what I want to do have the hopper by the truck and pour the feed in it is then blown through pipe to the feed bin of choice. Might need some tweaks for chiken feed maybe limited to pelleted feed but ME likey.

 

[gigiok]

BTW I am by myself and have no honey to do stuff and I get about with a walker. Here is another thought.... I have always wondered how they load Feed in those automatic game feeders that are up on stilts. We are talking hundred pounds at a time for Game. I found this greate video on Youtube..... this is what I want to do have the hopper by the truck and pour the feed in it is then blown through pipe to the feed bin of choice. Might need some tweaks for chiken feed maybe limited to pelleted feed but ME likey.

Cool idea. You'd need a pretty powerful blower to move it very far.
We have goats also. They are our babies and play with the grandkids. They would probably take this apart in short order = ha = but it's a good idea.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: LOL.... yep on the goats. THats why they would be locked up in their YARD and I would be on the outside sending the grain up over the fence into a locked hopper in the Coop feed room. Maybe twelve feet across and six feet up. If you look at the video they are filling a game feeder hopper that is a good twenty feet in the air. Or at least one of those videos did.... Scratching my head now I saw at least three do it your self jobs and two finished commercial products. All using gasoline powered leaf blowers.

deb

 

[dennymeyrand]

Nice. I like this.

I eventually will have rain barrels coming off my garage that will flow into this as well. I'm going to have to use some kind of float for that so it's not constantly overflowing during the rainy season.