Giant Bird Feeder Made From "Hardware Cloth"

Giant Bird Feeder Made From Hardware Cloth FARM HOME Miscellaneous “It’s big enough that I only have to fill it about once a week ” says Paul Miller Gardiner Mont who used ordinary hardware cloth to make this 15-lb black oil sunflower seed feeder It hangs outside his bedroom window The feeder measures 3 ft long by 7 in in dia and has a concave cap over the top to keep rain and snow out The bottom is formed from a section of window screen He started with a 3-ft long 20-in wide section of hardware cloth with 1/4-in openings He formed the cloth into a 7-in dia tube and used hog wire to attach the sides together He made the bird stands by simply pushing 11-in long chop sticks through the openings The cap was formed from a big brass bowl that he picked up at a garage sale He drilled 2 holes in the bowl Then he connected a pair of flower basket holders to the top sides of the tube and ran them up through the holes The basket holders hang on a piece of curved rebar that’s welded to half of a door hinge which Miller screwed to a stud on the house’s eave Up to 12 birds can feed at a time “I like it because I can wake up and watch the birds while I’m working at my computer ” says Miller “And I don’t have to fill it as often as other feeders ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Paul Miller P O Box 862 Gardiner Mont 59030 ph 406 581-0102; paul j miller69@gmail com

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