Many owners of summer cottages and private houses with gardens suffer from all kinds of pests of fruit trees. To reduce the population of these, it is necessary that birds live on your site.
In this article, the author of the Penser YouTube channel will tell you how to make cozy nests for them.
This homemade product is not very difficult to manufacture, its parts can be cut even with a hand jigsaw.
Materials
- Board 1200 × 250 × 18 mm
- Acrylic varnish
- Bolts, washers, nuts M6
- Wood screws
- Sandpaper
- wooden bar
- PVA glue.
Instruments, used by the author.
— Band-saw
— Screwdriver
- Drilling machine
— Forstner Drills
- Drum grinding nozzle
- Grinding machine
- Wrenches, clamps, clamps, ruler, square, compass
Manufacturing process.
As a material for the manufacture, the master chose an ordinary board 120X25X1.8 cm. I marked the centers of circles on it, and drew them with a compass.
Cut into five blanks, and drilled in each center.
Having exposed a support pin, and having put on a preparation on it, cut off an external unnecessary part.
Moved the pin to a new position, and cut out the inner circle.
So, reducing the radius, cut all the rings, going directly over the edge.
I polished the outer sides of the workpieces on the machine, and assembled the first copy tentatively.
The slots from the band saw in the rings are smeared with glue by the master, wrapped with masking tape, and fixed with clamps.
After the glue dries, it carefully polishes the edges inside and outside the rings.
Then glues the rings in the section, pressing them with a load.
Now with the help of a drill, Forstner drills a tap hole. It should be from 25 to 36 mm in diameter, it all depends on the type of bird. Then he polishes it with a drum nozzle on a drilling machine.
Drills a hole just below the notch, and glues a wooden bar there. It will be a perch.
Next, he needs to make a bracket. It consists of two parts. Cuts them on a band saw.
Also polishes the ends of the workpieces.
Drills a hole for attaching to the top of the house with a 6 mm drill.And in the wall element drills a pair of holes for screws.
These are the elements of the house turned out.
Now the master fastens the furniture quick-detachable fastener. It allows you to disconnect the elements of the bracket by simply lifting the house up.
The first part of the bracket is attached to the roof of the house with an M6 bolt
For the reason that it will be necessary to clean the houses, the master decided to fix two of its parts with each other using ordinary screws.
Having screwed the mount onto the wall, he tentatively hangs the nesting on it.
Before installing them on the street, it is worth covering all surfaces with acrylic varnish.
These are such simple, but very unusual and neat nests that were obtained by the master. I hope that birds already live in them, and delight the author with their singing, and also eat caterpillars well.
Drawings kindly provided by the author of this homemade product can be downloaded from the following.
Thanks to the author for the simple but interesting idea of beautiful bird houses!
All good mood, good luck, and interesting ideas!
Author video can be found here.