11-03-2005, 12:42 AM
your are quite welcome, if ya got the time I made a post on this board called fishing tip of the day, It will take hours to read...LOL
Ya just gotta love that pvc stuff, I had an 11 inch peice of 6 inch pvc that layed in the middle of my yard for years that I had been kicking around between mowings and just last week It turned in to a project. Using a bunch of equipment laying around the house cause I never throw any thing away I built an exray machein for examinating the progress eggs in my incubator. total cost was 5 dollars, (the cost of a 75 watt incodecent light blub)
My project this week is a brooder box made from scraps my neighbors was throwing away... Granted I could have used a cardboard box to brood the chicks that are due to hatch on monday. But there aint no fun in that... so far I havent spent a dime on this project. my frame is from aluminum doors and windows. the bottom is 1/2 machein cloth, the top is an aluminum framed plexiglass slip in window. I only have to build the walls now, and the ply 1/4 inch ply wood was sitting in my shed for 15 years. I will use vinal to cover the inside of the wall and that came from another neighbors house that burned down 20 years ago...
Did I mention that I am a pack rat? LOL
I wouldnt have made any thing as fancy as I did but I was tearing apart the aluminum doors and was impressed with the craftsmanship and the way it was assembled I thought it would have been ashame to toss it. only took me a day to figure out what I was going to do with it...
my new brooder box will weigh 15 pounds when done, and will hold 150 chicks for two weeks or 75 chicks for three weeks, but will colaps right down flat when not in use, and It can double as a hot bed for tomato plants in the spring...
I will post a pic of it next week hopefuly with freshly hatch chicks if any one is intrested
by the way the aluminum doors were pella made. disasembled cut and hacked and pot rivited back together by davetclown....[sly]
I wonder what my project will be next week?[
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Ya just gotta love that pvc stuff, I had an 11 inch peice of 6 inch pvc that layed in the middle of my yard for years that I had been kicking around between mowings and just last week It turned in to a project. Using a bunch of equipment laying around the house cause I never throw any thing away I built an exray machein for examinating the progress eggs in my incubator. total cost was 5 dollars, (the cost of a 75 watt incodecent light blub)
My project this week is a brooder box made from scraps my neighbors was throwing away... Granted I could have used a cardboard box to brood the chicks that are due to hatch on monday. But there aint no fun in that... so far I havent spent a dime on this project. my frame is from aluminum doors and windows. the bottom is 1/2 machein cloth, the top is an aluminum framed plexiglass slip in window. I only have to build the walls now, and the ply 1/4 inch ply wood was sitting in my shed for 15 years. I will use vinal to cover the inside of the wall and that came from another neighbors house that burned down 20 years ago...
Did I mention that I am a pack rat? LOL
I wouldnt have made any thing as fancy as I did but I was tearing apart the aluminum doors and was impressed with the craftsmanship and the way it was assembled I thought it would have been ashame to toss it. only took me a day to figure out what I was going to do with it...
my new brooder box will weigh 15 pounds when done, and will hold 150 chicks for two weeks or 75 chicks for three weeks, but will colaps right down flat when not in use, and It can double as a hot bed for tomato plants in the spring...
I will post a pic of it next week hopefuly with freshly hatch chicks if any one is intrested
by the way the aluminum doors were pella made. disasembled cut and hacked and pot rivited back together by davetclown....[sly]
I wonder what my project will be next week?[
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