hanging cage prop 

I don't know if you get enough credit for being so damn brilliant. Not everyone can think the way you do Allen, making really cool, realistic things out of almost nothing. This is awesome, thanks again!

I’m an old guy , thank you for waking up my creativity young man. I am hooked on your videos, dusting off all my shop tools and preparing to make stuff,

I could easily fall asleep to your videos. That's not an insult or jab saying your videos are boring. Quite the contrary. Your voice is... Oddly soothing. And the quality of the things you produce always keep me interested.

I love things made from stuff and stuff made from things.

Awesome just fantastic!! Going to attempt this for my pumpkin contest at work. Put my pumpkin in a straight jacket locked inside this. Ohhhhhhh yeah baby. Love this and your channel!!

I have been doing a Harry Potter themed Halloween for 10 years. I made Harry’s pet owl, but he needs a cage. I have to try this! Thanks!

I love the voice over Allen, It's like Bob Ross had a newfound love for Halloween. :)

Loved it, very helpful for my haunted dollhouse tutorials. but the best part of this entire tutorial is when you said "it can hold a kid in it" lol

In the process of making these with my mom and step dad now! You rock man, thanks so much for all the amazing content!

Well done. If you follow all your tutorials, I think you could really do a professional haunt on a budget. Gave me ideas for sideshow gaffs. Thanks!

I found your channel today and IM HOOKED ! You are so talented , fabulous just freakin awesome!

You're a genius!!!! I just found your chanel, can't wait to make one. Thanks for your videos.

Just found your channel. You're truly a wonderful instructor and inspiring, creative person.

I love it! Looks great.

Thank you so much for these free videos

Your cage looks awesome... thank you for sharing.👍

Amazing!!LOVE IT!!!

I'm so glad I found ur channel!

Great! Another fantastic project!

Wow!!! After spending 3 weeks with pvc, you show the easy way. Lol, Great Job 👍

Awesome idea!

Absolutely awesome! Got to add this to my haunt. Thanks for sharing this.

That was awesome

So creative and super cool!

You the man Allen! Still enjoy watching your creativity after many years!

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing!

Fantastic!

Looks great. Well done!

Love it😀 Definitely going to true with hopes that mine comes out as nice as yours😀

Excellent job!!!! Going to have to try this, this upcoming Halloween. 🎃

Freaking awesome Allen

Awesome tuto Allen Thanks a lot....

amazing work

Great work very inspired. For anyone wanting to recreate the painted bars... if making horizontal brown shadows on the outside, then make vertical shadows on the interior. Very picky I know - habit of being an artist.

Amazing work as always! Many thanks for sharing. Very much appreciated! 👏👏👏👍

WOW. You are awesome at what you do. I’ve been doing a lot of your projects. I’m in love with what you do. Wish you were my neighbor. Wow wow wow. AMAZING. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. will be making this. Love it. ☠️

Brilliant! You make things look so simple! 💀

This is awesomely creative! Nice tip on the shadowing of the bars too. Thanks for sharing!

Fan of yours for years. I love how you don’t over think it, you just do it!

Another good one ! Thanks!

Wow!! I absolutely love this idea. I think its a must try for me.

This is really awesome. For the time invested this looks great, would be perfect if you were bashing a bunch out for a set. I think the one quick thing that would help if a really light sporadic sponging of either dark brown or a steel paint. I find it helps sell simulated rust really well giving that flaked off effect without having too spend forever trying to use chipping medium or something similar.

This is game changer!!!! So kool!

Another great looking prop Allen! So looking forward to being there in the shop where it all happens at Monster Camp 6!

Yep, that could totally hold a kid!

So awesome

This is fantastic! Something the kids could actually help me to make.

Incredible ! Your knowledge never ceases to amaze us. I'm going to make this for sure. See you on the next live show 👍

The pups are getting huge!!!!

Ur very creative n fun to watch ! Thanks

This is so cool! My one critique/question would be the lines on the inside for the bar contrast, shouldn’t they have gone the opposite direction of the ones on the outside?

Incredible!!! Is all I can say. Now I’m on the hunt for barrels. Just amazing. Thank you, Thank you, for sharing.

Your a genius! 😄

love it!

Very creative

Awesome cage amazing art and very cool tutorial thank you for the inspiration !

those masked lines totally make it pop! Awesome technique!

Love this

Wow! This is exactly what I was looking for. My neighbor and I have a Pirate Theme Battle every year for Halloween and we keep adding on to keep people coming back. I want to do this for this year and so glad I came across your video. Great job and thank you!

Love it.

I like your videos

Another awesome RU-vid Wednesday. I was thinking about what I was goi* to do with the drums I have. I’ve got and can build stands and put on both sides of the side walk heading to the porch. Add a fog machine and it’s getting their..Thank you again Allen.you and Shannon are the best..

Super cool! i plan on making a hanging cage but just using PVC instead. I wish i had my hands on a barrel like this i would definitely go this route instead!

Buying a jigsaw just became my first priority in life thanks to this video. I really want to make two or three of these by Halloween! Great job!!!

I've made a hanging cage out of 2 laundry baskets, but I like the dome top better. I may have to try to figure out how to dome the laundry basket. I also love how the googly eyes and the dark lines really add to the realism. Will have to try that also. Thanks for all the great ideas.

Awesome job! Purchasing a barrel today! Let’s make stuff!

Very cool. Im gonna build a stand up version in metal one day!

Just stumbled across you and I'm seriously impressed. I love it! Definitely subscribed.

We made 4 of those out of steel. 3/16 2” flat stock as the main material, got a machine shop to roll lengths of it into 36” hoops. Then we welded the entire thing up into a 6’ tall cage with a little entry door. Welded an eyelet onto the top to hang it from chainfalls and the whole thing was strong enough to put actors in.

Excellent

I just “discovered” this video today and now I want to find a plastic drum and get started. Plenty of time to make one for this Halloween season. I got lucky last week and bought a full sized male mannequin from a department store and made a life sized Michael Myers fro the front yard. This hanging cage design is AWESOME!

This gave me the idea to use reclaimed rusty rebars to make the same thing

Great video and I loved the idea so much that I tried it. For the top of the cage, instead of cutting the pieces and drilling a hole through them, I left them in tact. I put some heavy weight on the bottom of the barrel, suspended it, and used the heat gun to elongate those pieces to get the bends out of them.

Thanks for this, I built one of these for Halloween 2021 and it turned out awesome; I always wanted skeleton in a cage prop but could not find what I as looking for, now i do :)

Your genius is amazing. You make it look so easy. I can't wait to try doing all of the things you make. Thank you for sharing your creative mind.

Awesome better than store bought cage.

Sir, you are a wizard!😳

Wow, what a super awesome creative idea! Love it and love everything you do! Thank you so much for sharing! #halloweenisnotcancelled 🎃👻💀👍

Loved it. Heading out to get a couple of drums now.

I'm am totally redoing this cage I love it

Came across your site about a month ago. Huge fan. Just to let you know I’m creating a Stiltbeast Studio themed display with Gibbet, Spooky Tree, and Weeping Angel. And I will let everyone know you were the inspiration. I am building stuff!

Your paint job is awesome! Well, the whole thing is, but making it look so realistic... you’re amazing! I can’t wait to make one of these! Thanks so much, Allen, for sharing your talent with us.

Dude, this is so awesome you never cease to amaze me in your videos. My Daughter Julie was born on Halloween and gets so excited when October gets closer, she's 27 now and just got her own house and is always looking for something cool and creepy to decorate her new home inside and out for the Halloween season...she's going love this. Thanks for sharing your talents and posting, I know its a lot of hard work in creating and posting so I thank you for taking your time to share much appreciated Bro. Hope all is well with you and the Fam. and have a great weekend :)

That is fantastic. I need to find some old barrels.

You are the man thank u so much

Cool

You clever sunuvubeeotch! And I was about to blacksmith one from scratch...FULL SIZE!!!....I think you convinced me.😑👍🏽

I love this project, great piece. Go make stuff lol

Love your work!!! Wish you had classes in Ontario Canada

I do enjoy the text overs and comical comments. But I'm kinda digging the voice over

Googley eyes on a rusted cage, this is giving the strangest Bloodborne vibes hahaha

I think in your initial inventory of the hardware, you forgot to count one of the nuts - the one doing the amazingly creative work! ;) Thank you so much for sharing your talents. Your videos are very enjoyable.

Very nice. I'd love to see the rivets dry-brushed with a ring of dirt at the base of each one.

that's genius thanks for sharing i am Def going to put this tutorial to good use HFL!!

Great idea, I'll make something like that for halloween (if I find a barrel like this)

Have 3 barrels... guess I need to go make stuff!

Love this project! I would do mini ones for hanging around with little skeletons from Dollar Tree. I also would use Finnabair rusting and metallic patinas and waxes to achieve rusted effects for small projects. New sub!!

Note for those copying this project: Those inside 3d effect paints should make vertical bars on top, since the outside had horizontal bars on top.

THANK YOU! This is really awesome! I found your brain in a jar video (also awesome) so decided to see what else you posted out here in cyberspace. I wasn't exactly thinking of the GIANT cage when I first clicked on this, but wow, so glad I watched. This is truly brilliant (along with the brain video). I'm wondering if you think I can scale this down to use for a much smaller version. I ask because my husband--who knew all those tools he has--passed a couple of years ago and while I think he has many of the tools you have, I'm certainly new to using any of them (but I'm learning). I thought to try smaller not only because I'm unsure I can handle the larger one by myself, but also for the beginner in me. I'm finally coming out of the dark and oddly wanting to plan a Halloween party for next year for my family so I'm looking for a lot of Hocus Pocus ideas. I've already re-created Winnifred's spell book and am quite proud of how it turned out (very authentic--even added content to the pages!). I plan to try my hand at the black candle which looks easy, but this cage is off-the-charts cool. Thanks!

The inside shoulda had the vertical bars highlighted downward. Lol js. Amazing work man!!