Rotating Bird Feeder Stays “Varmint-Free”

Rotating Bird Feeder Stays “Varmint-Free” FARM HOME Miscellaneous By using a stick while standing on his deck Charles Hunt Hillsboro Mo can rotate the homemade bird feeder wheel he mounted just outside the deck to bring song birds into view “I really like it because it keeps varmints such as raccoons and squirrels off my bird feeders It’s big enough to hold several different feeders and was inexpensive to build ” he says Hunt mounted an antique dump-style hay rake wheel on top of an 18-ft long 4-in dia steel pipe which he set in concrete about 4 ft from one end of his second story deck He bought a keeper plug at a hardware store and screwed it onto one end of a small water pipe which he then dropped into the steel pipe Several different kinds of feeders hang from the wheel on 30-in wires “I haven’t had any problems with varmints since I built it ” says Hunt “The wheel is only about 4 ft from the deck so with a 6-ft stick I can easily reach the wheel and rotate it from the deck to fill all the feeders I use it to feed birds all year long and at times there are 10 to 20 birds feeding at a time Last winter I saw 14 cardinals feeding from it at the same time During summer I add multiple hummingbird feeders ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Charles A Hunt 3530 Hwy Z Hillsboro Mo 63050 ph 314 520-4012

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