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

[Minflick]

I know the ones AT the store are not free anywhere around me, but the ones at Staples are nothing like as strong as the real milk crates. Just sayin'...

 

[RonP]

Just saying...I would never post nor suggest anything illegal on a public forum.

 

[aart]

Really easy nest boxes free outside most grocery stores. Cut the fronts out and stack em up.

NOT free.

Uhhhh.....no!

Those crates are not free or garbage.

They are reused by the vendor and cost money.

Getting caught taking them without permission would require quite an explanation and possible prosecution.

You can however purchase them in most stationary stores like Staples.

Ditto^^^^^^ .

 

[perchie.girl]

Uhhhh.....no!

Those crates are not free or garbage.

They are reused by the vendor and cost money.

Getting caught taking them without permission would require quite an explanation and possible prosecution.

You can however purchase them in most stationary stores like Staples.

I get them at the local liquor/grocery in my neighbor hood... I always ask first. and they are the good kind. we are so far out it costs too much to return them to the supplier.... Or something like that.

I personally dont care for the open basket type nest box... But thats me....

deb

 

[Wxguru]

I talked to my local wal mart, and they said they couldn't give me crates since they return and have them leased thru a company. I did however find at my local AAFES, all the pallets I could ever want to use to build things with.

 

[goodbyddy13]

Well rub elbows and you can get them for free so yes go out an gather milk crates for nesting boxes. Never said I stole them

 

[oldrooster]

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I work in a store and the truck that delivers the milk picks up the empties from the delivery before, that was after they did away with a "drop trailer" (a trailer with dry goods left behind to unload at our leisure and reloaded with empty boxes like those and stacks of pallets to be switched with new trailer of dry goods a day or two later). If it's too far out to pick up the empties then isn't it too far out to drop off the full boxes of milk? If they unload 1 pallet of full milk boxes that means they have a pallet sized space empty in the truck right? So that does not make any sense.....

 

[perchie.girl]

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I work in a store and the truck that delivers the milk picks up the empties from the delivery before, that was after they did away with a "drop trailer" (a trailer with dry goods left behind to unload at our leisure and reloaded with empty boxes like those and stacks of pallets to be switched with new trailer of dry goods a day or two later). If it's too far out to pick up the empties then isn't it too far out to drop off the full boxes of milk? If they unload 1 pallet of full milk boxes that means they have a pallet sized space empty in the truck right? So that does not make any sense.....

This is a store that quite possibly goes and buys their goods themselves... Or maybe the fellow I asked didn't know they needed to return them... Sixty miles out from any city .... But I did ask and they said yes.... And I asked every time I have taken some matter of fact they helped me load them.

deb

 

[AlexxD]

This is the roost and pvc feeder I made for inside the coop

Three outside watering nipples that are gravity fed from a 10L bucket auto filled with a toilet float. There are also three more inside mounted to the back of the nest box. Also you can see the inside pvc down pipe feeder

This is their dust bath. Just a worn out 17inch tyre.

Waterers around the tree and a coliflower hanging up high. To the left is a shelter with another pvc feeder. You can see the pipe coming out of the roof. I used silicon sealant to stop any rain getting in the pipe and a cap on the top.

And finally, their whole run. This was just after id secured all the netting around the tree and to the garage and fence etc.

Hope you like my inventions more to come I feel!!

 

[gclark94560]

I love the tire dust bath! This week end my girls are getting one.