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

[Angelicisi]

We picked up a 10 pack of the short bungees (for learning curve lol) from Harbor Freight Tools for like $8 bucks. They're online I believe too. The bolt we had, but can get at home depot/lowes. Just rember to put a washer and a nut on the INSIDE too or othe cap will spin (not with the drill lol)

Do you have a link to the bungee material you used? I would love to have a go at making that, just not to destroy a bird going for the wrong rubber!

 

[Angelicisi]

Also, when making the holes to slip the rubber straps in, easy way was to use a drill bit and drill the size needed by making holes that touch each other instead of trying to jigsaw a small hole.

We picked up a 10 pack of the short bungees (for learning curve lol) from Hardware Freight Tools for like $8 bucks. They're online I believe too. The bolt we had, but can get at home depot/lowes. Just rember to put a washer and a nut on the INSIDE too or othe cap will spin (not with the drill lol)

 

[jmandawn]

This is a great thread!!!!

 

[perchie.girl]

This is a great thread!!!!

Isnt it..... VBG.... I have learned sooo much and it has sparked soo many ideas for home projects to the point I am redsigning my coop with some of them in mind.....

Oh and

from San Diego County.

deb

 

[Leahs Mom]

Okay. Didn't have time to write up the post on the glass waterer and get all the photos together today but hopefully tomorrow.

In the meantime...
I'm hoping someone who is handier with electricity than I am can help me figure out what this diagram means and how to make one. It is the "electric pole shocker" used to deter hawks. Here is a site that shows it and the diagram. http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/HawksOwls.asp

I am very dense when it comes to electricity. Not dense, really, just uneducated so I don't understand how it works. I wish I could just buy one of these already made.

Here's from the site:

Fig. 3. The electric pole shocker.
(1) uninsulated (exposed) 12-gauge (0.28-cm)
copper, ground, and hot wires (no connection
from ground to hot wire)
(2) insulated wire to ground
(3) insulated wire to fence charger
(4) 14- to 16-foot (4- to 5-m) post
(5) mounting screw
(6) 1-inch x 6-inch (2.5- x 15-cm) self-insulating
plastic pipe
(7) 3/4-inch (0.2-cm) sheet metal screws with
plastic expansion sleeve or tubing between
head of screw and plastic pipe

Quote: http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/HawksOwls.asp

 

[malndobe]

Okay. Didn't have time to write up the post on the glass waterer and get all the photos together today but hopefully tomorrow.

In the meantime...
I'm hoping someone who is handier with electricity than I am can help me figure out what this diagram means and how to make one. It is the "electric pole shocker" used to deter hawks. Here is a site that shows it and the diagram. http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/HawksOwls.asp

I am very dense when it comes to electricity. Not dense, really, just uneducated so I don't understand how it works. I wish I could just buy one of these already made.

Here's from the site:

Just from reading the description and use I'm going to say the piece of tubing on top of the pole has two wires running acrossed it, one is a hot wire and one is a ground wire. The tubing is probably PVC or another non-condutor and when the bird lands on the pole they complete the circuit by touching both wires at the same time, resulting in a zap to their feed.

It would be really easy to make these. You could do it two different ways. Both just require a piece of PVC pipe, 2 pieces of insulated wire long enough to reach from the top of the pole to your electric fence unit, and one method requires some short screws.

For the left side method drill 2 holes about half an inch from each end of the pvc pipe. How far apart they are would depend on your pipe, for a piece of 1 inch PVC I would drill them about 3/4 an inch apart. Take the wire and strip the end of it of the insulation, if you have a 6 inch pipe then strip 5 inches. Thread each wire through the holes on one end, run them along the top of the pipe and feed them through the holes on the other end back into the pipe and bend them back under the pipe so the wire stays tight and the wires don't touch.

For the right side method put two small screws into each end of the pipe about 1/2 inch from the end and about 3/4 inch apart. You could also use a wooden dowel for this method. Strip the insulation from the wire and twist it around the screws on one end, then run it to the screws on the other end and twist it around those. So looking down at the pipe the screws/wires look like this.

0-----------------------------------------------------------0
0-----------------------------------------------------------0

Then mount the pipe (either method) to the top of a pole, you could just screw it on the pole using a couple longer screws, make sure they don't touch the wires, run the wires down to your electric fence unit and turn it on.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Thank you. Electric shocking devices for dummies That made it much easier to understand.

 

[ozexpat]

most hawks are protected so be careful you dont end up with your own shock

 

[Leahs Mom]

It's not illegal to "deter" and the electric shock devices are listed in the DNR lists of "deter". So... legal

They don't kill, they just give a surprising shock that is supposed to freak them out enough to encourage them to nest and land elsewhere.

 

[aart]

......Jimmy Walt, it would be cool if you started a new thread with this set up so you can update how it works out ;-)

Okay, I might do that!

I'll probably wait until I actually get it installed in the coop. I'm waiting for the caulk around the fittings to dry, and I need to exchange the heater because it doesn't seem to stay on until the water gets to 75 degrees as the box states - might be defective. Also, I'm hoping we don't hit the 35 degree mark until December - we live in Michigan so who knows......... LOL!

Thanks.

Actually I now see you already had a thread on this waterer https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-thought-for-a-5-gallon-winter-bucket-waterer

but have also seen it on 2-3 other threads....hard to keep up on progress when the info is so scattered......sorry pet peeve, rant over.