My buddy that was renting a house with some woods out back moved so I lost my spot of 2 years. Luckily his son lives next door and is cool so I was able to just move my stuff over about 150m into the other property.
Even so was a grind moving things like a 10ft waterlogged wooden ladder, table and some other items through pretty thick thorny woods.
Was gonna fix one of my old feeders and use it as it's been torn up by a bear a couple times. Then last week at work we were doing a little reno in a hospital office and this tabletop was gonna get binned.
Grabbed what I needed its double layer 3/4" just shy of an inch and a half thick and should take some abuse.
Then mostly whipped this up past thursday night.
Doing it "hatch" style so I can screw the piss out of all 6 sides of it then added some backing from inside to screw the hatch on to fill it. I've had something rip a single layer 3/4 lid off with 2 3 inch screws holding it down!
Then finished it up yesterday morning.
Inside theres some laminated 3/4 so the food can slide down towards the hole. Piece of aluminum at bottom middle so that cant chew their way inside it.
Was a serious workout first bringing the feeder, lid and bottom, parts to finish building it and 20lbs of sunflower seeds among other things the 400m or so to my spot. I had planned to put the lid on and bottom on in the field letting me put the main box in the backpack but it didn't fit! So I put the bottom top and 20lb bag in the backpack and carried the box all the way.
Then the nasty task of getting it set, was. Not. Easy.
This ladder has been outside for 2+ yrs and anyone who knows the PNW type climate here it gets this slime on it and slicker than baby poop. Any angle and my foot would just slide sideways on the rung. Really uneven ground so not a chance of setting it up properly. Ended up screwing the paint tray of the ladder to the tree and it was stable enough. Took a few tries as I had to sit it on the ladder but keep one hand on it because its constantly trying to fall forward onto me. Finally prescreened some pieces of plywood onto the side and got lucky and left handed some screws home.
Then I could go nuts attaching it to the tree
Its about 40lbs so very cumbersome. Back again this morning finished it all up and added more "plates" securing it rock solid to the tree. Got a rope going to another clump of trees if they want to stay off the ground. Rope is mostly cut through in case something big want to tug on that rope to pull on the feeder.
This is trying to be bear and raccoon proof as well so added some anti climb sheet metal and a stick screwed to the feeder so squirrels can climb up. Even if a raccoon gets up there I'm not too worried hes not pulling this lid off.
Finished product holds a full 20lb bag of food!
Even so was a grind moving things like a 10ft waterlogged wooden ladder, table and some other items through pretty thick thorny woods.
Was gonna fix one of my old feeders and use it as it's been torn up by a bear a couple times. Then last week at work we were doing a little reno in a hospital office and this tabletop was gonna get binned.
Grabbed what I needed its double layer 3/4" just shy of an inch and a half thick and should take some abuse.
Then mostly whipped this up past thursday night.
Doing it "hatch" style so I can screw the piss out of all 6 sides of it then added some backing from inside to screw the hatch on to fill it. I've had something rip a single layer 3/4 lid off with 2 3 inch screws holding it down!
Then finished it up yesterday morning.
Inside theres some laminated 3/4 so the food can slide down towards the hole. Piece of aluminum at bottom middle so that cant chew their way inside it.
Was a serious workout first bringing the feeder, lid and bottom, parts to finish building it and 20lbs of sunflower seeds among other things the 400m or so to my spot. I had planned to put the lid on and bottom on in the field letting me put the main box in the backpack but it didn't fit! So I put the bottom top and 20lb bag in the backpack and carried the box all the way.
Then the nasty task of getting it set, was. Not. Easy.
This ladder has been outside for 2+ yrs and anyone who knows the PNW type climate here it gets this slime on it and slicker than baby poop. Any angle and my foot would just slide sideways on the rung. Really uneven ground so not a chance of setting it up properly. Ended up screwing the paint tray of the ladder to the tree and it was stable enough. Took a few tries as I had to sit it on the ladder but keep one hand on it because its constantly trying to fall forward onto me. Finally prescreened some pieces of plywood onto the side and got lucky and left handed some screws home.
Then I could go nuts attaching it to the tree
Its about 40lbs so very cumbersome. Back again this morning finished it all up and added more "plates" securing it rock solid to the tree. Got a rope going to another clump of trees if they want to stay off the ground. Rope is mostly cut through in case something big want to tug on that rope to pull on the feeder.
This is trying to be bear and raccoon proof as well so added some anti climb sheet metal and a stick screwed to the feeder so squirrels can climb up. Even if a raccoon gets up there I'm not too worried hes not pulling this lid off.
Finished product holds a full 20lb bag of food!
. What kind of squirrels do you get? And yes, 400 m through that growth is a LOT to drag all that weight. Are you going to get one of the “zeroing” spinner things?
