well welcome back to Steve rod reviews today I'm going to show you how to build an industrial bird
feeder not the kind of bird feeders that you kind of just look at and they look nice and you can
see all the seeds inside the tube this is a bird feeder strictly for the birds not for us to look
at but it's strictly to feed the birds during the winter and this is it right here just a PVC pipe
four inches and we have two caps PVC cement and this here from the dollar store for box and I'm
going to show you how to install all these things together and this is for all of you that enjoy
feeding the birds not just looking at them but this is a terrific solution a low-cost solution
this is relatively really cheap compared to you go out and buy a store-bought bird feeder that looks
all nice and fancy well this doesn't look all nice and fancy it's there just to feed the birds
let's get to it well here's the first start right here now I cut my piece 24 inches now you can make
yours any length that you want there very easy to cut and here's the caps you can buy the caps
and they just slip over nice and you know snug and that kind of thing but you really want to cement
the bottom one in so we'll just get the cement here and you don't got it be real fancy about it
right I mean this stuff does dry pretty fast so we'll just put it on the inside here there we go
yeah that's all you need now we'll just push it on and let it dry well the next
step they make it pretty easy for you is if you look great on the top there there
is a stamp and right in the center of that little arrow there is the center point so
we'll just drill a hole right there yes you don't got to be exact there we go
they're nothing fancy now you get yourself one of these or you could rig up whatever you have
you know around your shop and I just put that in there and put another washer on the other side
and put a nut on here and let's just screw this right down and it's as easy as that I mean this
ain't hard you can get this hardware anywhere and it'll last a lifetime with this whole unit will
actually last you your lifetime so let's move on to the next part you can see the marks there
I put in the on the bottom and we're just going to drill some holes and I just put a little bit
of a center punch in there first I'll do one for you but there's going to be four so I just put a
pilot hole first now usually I would stick this into my big wood vise but let's see if
I can make this hole now this is three quarters of an inch now depending on the type of birdseed
you're going to be using I'm just using general birdseed that you'd use all year round but if
you're going to use small little seed I go down to a smaller hole probably a half inch so let's
just drill this one out that's not too bad I'll finish drilling the rest now I made sure that the
hole is about almost at the bottom but I didn't want to go through this edge here so I just made
it so that I would just go close to the edge so this is pretty much at the bottom so I'll finish
drilling out the rest of them and we'll come back for the bottom okay let's take a look at
this Betty Crocker just a nonstick pizza crisper see all the holes in it that's what you want and
I paid four bucks so what I did is I got my tape measure and if you can take a look here I found
exactly where the center is here and what we have to do now is we have to mount it on the bottom
of this pipe so there's all kinds of different fasteners that you could use the easiest one for
most of you is probably going to just get some all-thread and just put a nut on both sides or
you could use one of these threaded fasteners or you could use something like this where you have
to put a fastener on the inside I don't really care for that one but I like this one this one
here just a quarter twenty thread and this will screw into the bottom and I'll put some of that
cement in there and that'll pretty much be it so I'll bring you back when I got that done and show
you the reason why I'm not going to install this plate first well the next thing I did was I just
had a hunk of this plastic sitting around so I took the whole saw there and just buzzed out a
round disc and that will go on the bottom here so I'll put the put this on first and then we'll
put the disc on and then I got room here to put a nut so as you can see here I did use some of
the cement to cement that insert in there and know if you could see there in the light but yeah it's
in there quite a bit okay so now we move on to the other end here now you have to sand this a
bit because you don't want this cap to be so tight and the reason why I like to use this is it gives
you something to pull it off with right so now you're gonna hang it from here so now we've got
to move on to how do you keep this lid on so you can you know load it up with more birdseed to not
have it fall off on you right let's move on to that one next well all I've done here is I put
a straight edge across one side to the other and then I put a mark all the way up a little
center point in there and we'll just put this on doesn't really matter where it's got a goal just
till it gets nug and then we'll drill up the first site and let's see if we can get it to go all the
way over to the other side okay and I think what I'm gonna do is drill the other pilot hole first
there we go let's see now you think we can get this rod to go through there that I got made up
it's not too sharp
there we go okay so the whole idea is let's see if we can get this rod to go through there that's
gonna be a little bit of a snug fit there we go now that's all you really need is something
like this because that's gonna hold it up and there's no way that's gonna fall out what do you
guys think now of course if you go like this it might but you know what this here will never fall
out in a million years so let's get to the last part here before we finish this up well I made
a little bit of a modification the wife was out here looking at this and she said Steve I don't
like this idea it might fall out that pin so I put just a small little clip in there drill the
hole through that's never gonna come out I don't think it would have come out in the first place
but uh there she is and what I'm gonna do next is I gonna show you it installed just got to put this
on now this is Teflon I believe so you can't paint this so you get the idea here this is gonna go on
the bottom and it's gonna screw right into there so that over time you know as this will probably
rust over time and the whole idea is when the birdseed goes on here if it's raining or you
know anything like that all the the moisture will go through this and it won't just sit there like
a pile of mud so let's see the finished product and let's see it hanging up well there she is
right there I'll bring you over and give you a close-up of it there now that's an old bracket
that I had from years ago all I did was stuck a carriage bolt in there and I put a nut on the
back side that just slips over and that's pretty well it there I mean would yous guys think I mean
you could see how the birds would just go in there and pick it out so I mean it it's not like it it
all fall out on your anything so there she be right there whoa what do you guys think yes that
was a summertime video from last year because I had to paint it had to do all this stuff and I'll
put some pictures on my Instagram poster in the wintertime and see how it all works out but so far
it's been there for a couple hours and yes I have seen some birds on there and they seem to like it
so far but you guys think now I'm predicting that depending on where you are in the world it's about
$15 to $20 to build one of them like you say you can make 4 24-inch feeders out of one length and
I think it's a cost-effective solution and you can see you can alter it any way that you like
you can put different holes you can put pigs in there if you know for the birds to actually stand
on if you want there's all kinds of things that you can do and that will last a lifetime just
go take a look at some of these bird feeders out there yeah you know they sell bird feeders
friend of mine is in marketing and he says we've never sold dog food to a dog yet we have to sell
the dog food to the humans so they'll buy it for their dog and the same as bird feeders they make
them look so nice and pretty and everything well they're actually marketing them for you not the
birds so this is strictly an industrial bird feeder I hope you guys like it it's strictly
for the birds I don't know you guys these guys let me know in the comments below whether you
think it looks out decent or you know or what but for me I think that's the way to go and I'm going
to be feeding them all year round so thanks for joining me here today if you've never seen this
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