welcome back to steve rob reviews today we're going to build another one of these bird feeders
and this is just a terrific bird feeder and i want you to look at something right
there to see where i've attached the uh suit feeder to well that's been there for about
four days and see how much they've eaten off of it and take a look at this side here
yeah they won't touch it this particular type of suit feeder now it's a total fail don't buy these
because uh you know what for some reason it scares the birds away but that's it right there and i'll
just show you a little bit up on the top there i got it high enough so i can walk underneath it
and we're going to make some improvements to this one build another one and let's get to it
well let's get started right now and i'm going to show you all the materials that you need
the first thing you need is just some of this uh pvc pipe you can get at your local hardware like
big box stores like lowe's and home depot comes in a 10 foot length and you can just cut it to
whatever length that you like okay next thing well got to go with the betty crocker yeah and that
was what's it say there four dollars that's a four dollar item and then we've got the jumbo pizza pan
and uh that was four dollars too now this particular build is going to be probably harder
than the last one if you want to take a look at the last build that i did it might be easier for
a lot of people i'll put the link down below and you can watch that if you want this one's going
to be a little bit harder but i think it's going to be better i'm making some improvements for what
i've noticed over a whole season using that one that one still is fine it does the birds love it
but there's a couple of flaws to it that i'd like to improve on only because well i live in
canada right lots of ice lots of snow if you don't have lots of ice and snow where you are
well you don't need to make any of these improvements so let's get started right now
and the only thing that i would say that a lot of people might have a challenge with is you have to
have a four inch hole saw so that's what i'm using there and of course you can see the 2x4 there
and these are all going to go together real easy now i'm not going to paint this project because
you know what it's too cold to paint right now i have to wait for a day that it's actually warm
enough that i can paint this and i just use regular krylon paint and i think this one i'm
going to pick green but i will show a picture in the future on my instagram posting of what
it looks like but yeah i wait for a day that it's above zero then i can just spray it quickly bring
it in the house and let it dry for about a half an hour and that's it so let's get started right now
okay so let's start off right there so just on my end of uh 2x4 i've got about an inch and a half in
and i'm right flush with the edge here now you know on the far side it is going to overhang right
so let's start drilling right now now this is one inch this is one and a half so i'm gonna have to
do it finish it off on the other side right but uh for now all i'm gonna do i'll show you right here
that's it we're just putting our marks in right now because there's a purpose for doing this
we're going to take it over to the table saw now and i'll show you what we got going on there
well we're over at my table saw and that is a 10 inch blade
and i've just got a spare block in here just so i could show you i have it positioned so it's just
right almost flush with the blade there and you can see that this has a little bit of an
angle to it i don't want a lot of angle just a little bit and here's the uh the one that i put
a hole through and the whole idea behind this is i've got lots of two by four here to hold on to
and i can run this in just far enough until it passes right there then i can go back
and drill out that hole and you'll see the reason why so let's get to that right next
okay okay here we go let's start drilling this out
okay so i have to turn it over drill the other side and then i'll show you what we
got well let's take a look and see what we got so far so we went through the uh 2x4
and this is the piece right here and all i've did is put a 3 8 carriage bolt through and you
can see the angle on there and you could see how i just kind of roughly sanded over the edges kind of
made it flat now this isn't sitting particularly flat right here but you really don't need to it
just got to bite in you'll see the reason why and on the bottom here all i did was countersink it
and i'm gonna have a wing nut on the bottom and for the countersink i just use a forstner bit
just to countersink it so it's nice and flush and it is going to fit like this
right flush now we can't mount that right now i got to do the opposite end which will be the top
first because if i install this well it's going to be hard to work around this right okay so let's
start working on the top and i'll show you how easy it is to put the top on compared to
well my original design so let's take a look and see how i'm going to do that
well there we go right there just easy to make a little bracket like this just put it in your vice
bend it over and if you take a good notice there you'll notice that this one here is further down
than this hole on this side so yeah it's going in on an angle and there's a reason for that too
so all i'm going to do is this is just going to slip right in here like this
and let's get to the next part where
i'm just going to bend up the rod that's going to go through here on an angle let's do that next
so here's the rod here that's going to go through to hold the lid down
and we'll just grab a hold of this just make a nice easy bend go all the way around
and right about there without knocking all my stuff off the table there that bend right there
well what do you think i think you got the idea what's going on here and you can see
it's definitely on an angle now the last one i had was right straight out we were worried if this pin
were to fall out well it's not going to fall out if it's on an angle i don't have to put a retainer
at the end there or anything and there it is right there okay so now let's put the hole in the bottom
of this so the birds can get some seed okay so all i have is my two locating arrows right here that
show where the front is and i'm just going to go roughly around that line and just about a quarter
of an inch higher oh better tighten this up but a quarter of an inch higher maybe right about there
okay now what i'm going to do is i'm going to cut these lines right down to here okay nothing fancy
let's just get her cut okay i'll sand that up a little bit and then we'll put it all together
well there's the bottom installed right there and you could see the idea behind this is i
wanted to have a little bit of this that was open up to the to the air better and a little bit of a
bigger hole and if you notice one hole only and you know what i put four holes in the other one
you don't need four holes just one hole is plenty and that's plenty enough of a hole and you could
see where the seed will come down there it'll be on an angle instead of being flat what i found
with the last one was a lot of moisture would build up on the bottom here and rot the seeds
so every time i cleaned it out i had to clean out the bottom as well and this one here is going to
be a lot easier to service over the long term and that's it right there so i'll bring it back when
i got the holes drilled in the bottom and the top and you take a look and see what you think
well what do you think so this one here has got the nice lid on it
and you could see how that's fastened on the top i'll take the lid off and show you how it all
fits together you got the rod going down and that will never fall off and i'll put my suet feeder
on here first before i feed the rod through so it can't fall off and this here well yes it's got the
holes going through it so all the moisture will fall through like the last one
you only need one hole and before i wrap this up i'm going to show you what i put around here
just like the other one well let's take a look see how easy it is take the top off of this and
you know it's as easy as that and you know it's so easy just to fill up the hopper now
and you know that is a nice easy project to do i'm going to show you one more thing before i
wrap this up okay so the last item i'm going to show you is on the bottom i left enough of a screw
uh threads on the bottom so i could mount a suet feeder a bell one and if you're wondering what
this stuff is that's going all the way around the outside edge well i'll show you right here
when the birds take the seeds out well you know what happens a lot of times they kick it over
the side if you put this on it protects that and it helps immensely so let me just show you
this is the uh the bell feeder that i'm going to hang off at the bottom of that
and that's just going to be great because a lot of birds like to just land on these and and feed off
of it and this is just the wire loom that you get that automotive supply places and it's uh
very easy just to wrap it around there and it stays there it does not fall off
you know you have no problems at all so thanks for joining me here today and uh use let me know what
you think about this feeder because it's a little harder to make but it's about ten dollars less
you know than buying the caps on the bottom and the top like i said i'll put a link down below
if you want to see the older one the one that i made that i showed the beginning of the video and
both of them are really easy to make as far as i'm concerned only took me about an hour
out here in the shop i mean once you do one you can do them a lot faster next time right
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