Superb new iteration/improvement of your previous feeder, which I had found pretty darn good !!! Kudos to you !!! I really do like your videos !!!! dan from Canada
I use send cut send all the time and they are great. It's nice that you got your parts for free, but you're looking at over $100 to get them made. I've already priced similar birdhouse parts myself and decided it was more than I wanted to spend. As I've noted before the 1-7/8" fence posts are no longer at home depot. Shrunk like everything else in this ecomomy.
Kudos, Chris. 👏🏽 You’re a Genius and simply brilliant! My husband & I have been meaning to build your squirrel-proof bird feeders since we found your channel years ago. Copper pipes are expensive & cutting the other pipes were not as easy for us. With the laser-cut plates, I believe we can finally realise our dream to build one for our backyard this year. Now please design a squirrel-proof raised bed vegetable protection. The marauding squirrels have eaten their way through our well-tended vegetable garden before our tomatoes and zucchinis even have time to mature and leaving us with half eaten or broken vegetables. We despise squirrels, with a passion.
Love this! I have several squirrels that keep eating my bird seed. Forwarded this to my son. The could be an entire cottage industry. Bet you could sell hundreds!
Ha! I didn't think it was possible to outsmart a squirrel. You applied a scientific rigor to it! I like the way the squirrels keep coming back to work the problem. They may yet come up with a way😃. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Mr. Chris! I loved the original video you made, and this one is pretty cool, too! I don't know if you remember, but I LOVE squirrels. They are my fav animal. I recently moved to Virginia from Florida. In Florida, we fed about 15-17 squirrels and tons of birds. I raised a squirrel, too. He is so strong and brave and has excellent insticts! I have 2 squirrels in my yard now. They're still scared of us. But I'm looking for a really good squirrel feeder. The genius of your design is that you can change the size of the holes to accommodate the squirrels, too! Your squirrels are so cute! I wish you could send them all to my yard, and I would feed those little rascals. 😂 Your birds are so cute, too! You've made them super happy!
From experience I can say if you plant a pignut hickory tree in your yard, squirrels will feed themselves luxuriously. And unlike birds, they store their own food for the winter and spring.
Great idea and another excellent video with clear instructions. Would love to buy a couple of kits but unfortunately the supplier will not ship to Europe.
Probably to keep the squirrel from using its front paws if the bottom row was also round holes? Instead of being blank the zig zag was put in for visual interest? Just guessing.
How do you manage rainwater drizzling in from the top gap, of being blown in from the sides? For the latter I suppose you could just redesign this to have wider side-panels; what do you think?
Cardinals: The consummate couple. You never see one without the other. Chickadees: They're funny. They'll fly in, grab one seed, then fly off into a nearby tree to eat it. Solitary and anti group bird. Squirrels: Have about as much brain power and attention span as Homer Simpson.
Squirrels are problem solvers and will persist at solving an issue when it comes to something they want or need... food. They usually do not give up until forced to to so by something or by trying everything they can. Mark Rober has several videos that demonstrates this in his squirrel videos. No creatures were harmed but they are funny... Good design and build, Chris! Love the care and time it took to create such detail as this.
Is the gap on the sides of the seeds big enough to let seeds just fall as birds are feeding? Maybe a smaller steel rail on the inside to form a full “bowl” for the seeds to keep stuff from falling out. Clever and beautiful design!
Beautiful design, and as always - beautiful presentation. Thank you for sharing this. are the jaws on the bottom just decorative? What was the cost? why not use acrylic for the entire design (as that can be cut on a co2 laser?
Great design like the way you make all the steps very clear so that anyone can follow. One question I take it you don't have any chipmunks or creatures which are of that size. Just wondering how you would handle those creatures.
another great vid and instructions, that yellow bird is AWE-SOME I only know a few types of birds here’s the ones I notice we have here in USA GEORGIA that I can identify that come to our feeders…… Cardinals Blue jays Some black bird looks like a crow ¿ That little tiny bird in your vid looks white light grey black ¿ @17:16 u have nice inviting peaceful yard c ya MR CHRIS
So it looks like you have the seed directly on the glass. What if it rains there's no drainage? The seed will be wet! No? Sorry for the questions but My husband had volunteered to make one for me so I need to get the correct info !
Please ask any questions! The water can only get in through the top small gap in the glass. Any that does get through will likely drip down the inside of the glass and out at the bottom. The seed "tray" part is away from the open ends also where the birds enter. Only in a driving rain would water possibly get to the seed. If this happens, the feeder is like a mini greenhouse when the sun comes out and the solar rays from the sun through the glass will heat up and dry the seed along with the air flow through the holes.
@@chrisnotap Sooner or later, one of them will probably fall/slide off and catch that latch and hang from it for a sec and the glass will end up unlatched. Might take a while, but would be interesting to keep that camera going to try and catch that.
@@chrisnotap Looks perfect! And I'm sure reuse/upcycling is easier than having to post back to Bell, when they probably don't REALLY want them back anyway.
