The top piece can be removed and used as a cutting board.
No thank you..
Homemade V.S. Store Bought
- Thread starter Lazy Farmer
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No thank you..
Here is my version of ;;;; Low Income Housing for pets.
Clean up and varnish.
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Prepare grates..
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Assemble..
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Install Glass Top Window and Q-Tips' bedding.
He likes to sleep covered. Its not cold, but he likes to feel Snug as a Bug.
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I have same for his partner in crime as well.
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I absolutely love it!!!
That one cracked me up. I want to make a red neck outhouse. I had forgotten about the lowly spackle bucket with a toilet seat attached. When we built our house, we moved in on January 28th... in the dead of winter, with wood heat: frozen wet wood which we had to dig out of the snow and pound the ice off it before we could use it. Neither one of us had any experience with wood heat. No kitchen installed. But, we were blessed to have an electric skillet, and a crock pot, and a couple saw horses, and water piped into extrol tank in the basement. Bare plywood floors, and foil faced fiberglass everywhere else! But, I digress. Our bathroom consisted of a spackle bucket with a styrofoam scrap for a seat, privacy provided by cardboard tacked over studs! Those were the days!
I could make a red neck outhouse with spackle bucket, and a privacy tarp!
Last summer DS and spouse went to Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Used these.
Privacy,,,,,,,,,,,,,
no need for walls. No one around for miles.
Privacy,,,,,,,,,,,,,
no need for walls. No one around for miles.
that is a Cadilac privey compared to one we had when I was going to trade school.
we rented a farm house, fed and watered the guys beef cows in exchange for the rent.
not a single cupboard in the house. no sink, no water.. no outhouse, much less a bathroom.
I found an old kitchen chair, the webbing was missing on the seat. we straddled that chair over a broken out board in the barn above the cow pen below.
when spring rolled around I dug a hole and put a 55 gal barrel in it. transferred the chair to the new outhouse.
the outhouse had 3 sides and no roof. a blanket hung on the front as a "door".
no furnace nor space heater. we scrounged up a pot burner oil stove. had to haul fuel oil in cans and fill a reservoir on the back of the stove. closed off the upstairs and used only the two downstairs rooms.
the living room was also our bedroom for us and our two preschool children.
does this count for not storebought?LOL
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we rented a farm house, fed and watered the guys beef cows in exchange for the rent.
not a single cupboard in the house. no sink, no water.. no outhouse, much less a bathroom.
I found an old kitchen chair, the webbing was missing on the seat. we straddled that chair over a broken out board in the barn above the cow pen below.
when spring rolled around I dug a hole and put a 55 gal barrel in it. transferred the chair to the new outhouse.
the outhouse had 3 sides and no roof. a blanket hung on the front as a "door".
no furnace nor space heater. we scrounged up a pot burner oil stove. had to haul fuel oil in cans and fill a reservoir on the back of the stove. closed off the upstairs and used only the two downstairs rooms.
the living room was also our bedroom for us and our two preschool children.
does this count for not storebought?LOL
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CCUK
Free Flying
I made a brooder. It was from some old shed panels. It has a mesh lid that just lifts on and off. I made it with a heat lamp fixed to the inside that lifts up and down but I only have a normal low watt lightbulb in it now as I bought a brooder heat plate. I've always been a bit wary of heat lamps with wood, dry shavings and electricity!
I'm waiting for the imminent arrivals!
I'm waiting for the imminent arrivals!
Not really homemade but my mouse kept falling off my keyboard thing while I work. Used 2 command strips for hanging pictures to stop the problem. Works pretty good.
CCUK
Free Flying
If it works, it works!
Some what home made... The gate. but the jack is repurposed.
I have a 9 foot wide gate and part of that gate is 4 foot section for continuous/EZ people access. The complete gate is only opened occasionally. The whole thing is heavy since made of 6 foot tall wood fencing and strong/heavy bracing. The jack keeps gate from sagging and dragging on the ground. The wheel makes for EZ opening.
The boards laying on the ground are there to keep my bantams from wandering out under the gate.
but the jack is repurposed. I have a 9 foot wide gate and part of that gate is 4 foot section for continuous/EZ people access. The complete gate is only opened occasionally. The whole thing is heavy since made of 6 foot tall wood fencing and strong/heavy bracing. The jack keeps gate from sagging and dragging on the ground. The wheel makes for EZ opening.
The boards laying on the ground are there to keep my bantams from wandering out under the gate.
I am the Walrus
Chirping
Have you ever had rain coming down for 8 days straight?
Have you ever had your boar drag his feed bowls out into the quicksand created by inches upon inches of relentless rain? Then this one is for you.
Yesterday evening I was weed wacking without glasses on like a fool. Was too lazy to go get them. Lord and behold! Projectile into my left eye. I drop the Wacker holding my eyelid pulled outward in hopes of my eye watering and self washing out the whatever that hit me. Then my crazy wife narrowingly runs me over with the lawn tractor because I'm blinded and walking into her path. Spent an hour or so washing my eye out.
The reason for this story is that the adventure set me back on the feeding schedule. I was feeding swine in the dark now. And in the rain with one eye.
I have a breeder boar separated from his mate in a temporary pen. The pen is flooded from the rains and I can't reach the feed bowls.
I'm not walking into quicksand in the rain with a boar with one eye closed.
So I went to the barn, grabbed a ten foot 1x2 and drilled a hole in the end and threaded a bent over utility hook into the pilot hole. Strapped scrap wood to it with a hose clamp to keep it from splitting if under prying pressure. Cable tied a cheap flash light.
So in the wet dark I was able to snatch out the feed bowls in seconds with my new illuminated snatching stick.
I can also wack the wifey over the head if she ever trys to mow over me as well.
Not to hard. I don't want to hurt my new bowl snatcher.
Have you ever had your boar drag his feed bowls out into the quicksand created by inches upon inches of relentless rain? Then this one is for you.
Yesterday evening I was weed wacking without glasses on like a fool. Was too lazy to go get them. Lord and behold! Projectile into my left eye. I drop the Wacker holding my eyelid pulled outward in hopes of my eye watering and self washing out the whatever that hit me. Then my crazy wife narrowingly runs me over with the lawn tractor because I'm blinded and walking into her path. Spent an hour or so washing my eye out.
The reason for this story is that the adventure set me back on the feeding schedule. I was feeding swine in the dark now. And in the rain with one eye.
I have a breeder boar separated from his mate in a temporary pen. The pen is flooded from the rains and I can't reach the feed bowls.
I'm not walking into quicksand in the rain with a boar with one eye closed.
So I went to the barn, grabbed a ten foot 1x2 and drilled a hole in the end and threaded a bent over utility hook into the pilot hole. Strapped scrap wood to it with a hose clamp to keep it from splitting if under prying pressure. Cable tied a cheap flash light.
So in the wet dark I was able to snatch out the feed bowls in seconds with my new illuminated snatching stick.
I can also wack the wifey over the head if she ever trys to mow over me as well.
Not to hard. I don't want to hurt my new bowl snatcher.
I am the Walrus
Chirping
Depending on who you ask, you might be considered a hoarder or a repurpose advocate.
I might be a little of both. I do throw away a lot of unuseful things, but there are a lot of things that can be reused so many times. Being a farmer you have to deal with flies on a day-in and day-out basis. Buying expensive fly traps is a vicious cycle. If you elect to purchase the fly traps once they are used up you have to buy more bait or you can find bait located around your farm and Save your money or more important things.
These are handy, don't throw them out!
The refill bait is almost as expensive as a new trap. Crazy!
Buy it once. And that's it. Wash it out, fill it up with protein and water and reuse over and over. I think this one is 5 yrs old. I have made them from coke bottles but they don't last very long. They breakdown too fast in the sunshine. I have been reusing these with almost zero expenses except for the price of bb's to dispatch the bait.
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Add a few of these stinky guys and place the trap far from your beating path.
Clean out and reset them weekly. If you are in good relations with your neighbor, I suggest not hanging close to their property line. If you are on the rocks with your neighbor, a perfect location to attract those pesky flies.
I might be a little of both. I do throw away a lot of unuseful things, but there are a lot of things that can be reused so many times. Being a farmer you have to deal with flies on a day-in and day-out basis. Buying expensive fly traps is a vicious cycle. If you elect to purchase the fly traps once they are used up you have to buy more bait or you can find bait located around your farm and Save your money or more important things.
These are handy, don't throw them out!
The refill bait is almost as expensive as a new trap. Crazy!
Buy it once. And that's it. Wash it out, fill it up with protein and water and reuse over and over. I think this one is 5 yrs old. I have made them from coke bottles but they don't last very long. They breakdown too fast in the sunshine. I have been reusing these with almost zero expenses except for the price of bb's to dispatch the bait.
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Add a few of these stinky guys and place the trap far from your beating path.
Clean out and reset them weekly. If you are in good relations with your neighbor, I suggest not hanging close to their property line. If you are on the rocks with your neighbor, a perfect location to attract those pesky flies.
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