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Fire Ball bird house
This is kinda a quarantine project. I've been wanting to build this for a while but the corana gave me some extra time. It's not finished. I need to attach the tin roof to the flat strap and put a fart fan on roof and hardware cloth on floor for bird poop to fall thru. Flat strap is attached to wood purlins with safety wire. The purlins would have been to week to screw tin roof to. The trailer frame is cold rolled channel and what gave the inspiration to build a bird house or hornets. They gotta live somewhere.
The welding on most of the crc was tig and er70s. I don't whatchacallit for axles to frame is called but it didn't weld with er70 so I figured it was ss and used SilliBronz. I was going to fill in my bird poop welds but my tig torch hose has a leak were it goes into the negative lug.
The materials are mostly scrap. The tin roof was like a 2' diameter hvac duct. Flat strap is water support required in seismic areas. Crc from same job is used to shear metal studs. Wheels are from exercise equipment and other scrap I had.
Pics came out backwards from what I intended.
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So, just being completely honest here.... This thing is SICK!! It's a little inspiring to me as well, to come up with some models that are a little outside the realm of chain store, pre-cut types. I like it, I like it a lot.
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Has anybody noticed the crazy prices those little retro campers are getting? In full size of course.
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TWENTY GRAND FOR THOSE CRAZY RETRO'S. WOW!!
Very COOOOOOOL birdhouse. Great idea, nothing I've ever seen before. Really cool
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That's pretty cool! I looked at the first two pics and wondered why you were posting pics of a little baby yard cart when the topic is a bird house.
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Originally Posted by
12V71
Has anybody noticed the crazy prices those little retro campers are getting? In full size of course.
Originally Posted by
farmersammm
TWENTY GRAND FOR THOSE CRAZY RETRO'S. WOW!!
Very COOOOOOOL birdhouse. Great idea, nothing I've ever seen before. Really cool
Just had to build (and sell) my own...
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That's pretty nice, seen quite a few like that go for $8K+ lately. On the other hand my other half prefers push button hot water and a real bathroom so we have a 32' Motorhome... 454 and 5MPG. Yay. Next week is vacation week and we are off on a 750-800 mile jaunt through southern Oregon.
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I got caught up in the teardrop movement years ago. Wasn't a camper until I met my wife 10 years ago. The "Escape Pod" made it to Zion, Bryce, Monument Valley, and all over AZ.
Then we too got tired of contorting, midnight bathroom strolls, and getting stinky on the longer trips. Upgraded last year:
But this bird house project brings back fond memories - it looks awesome, can't wait to see it finished.
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So I dropped the ball on this project/thread. I had some discrepancies with this. Excuse me if I don't have a response to all posts now. I do have some pics from the last couple days. It's still not to my own tolerances tho.
Pics may not be in order:
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5 new laser, explanation later
4 fart fan template Scale is all wrong. Shouldn't be included but I'm trying to upgrade. Next one will be better.
3 pic was meant to show levelling crank. silver soldered colorful braze. I used 6011 to bend hand crank. A nut was used to hold 6011 to nut. The nut musta been ss because Er70 wasn't working with the 6011. I used silvaloy to set nut to level post. Next pic may help explain.
2 pics are grainy. Low lighting. Garage is closed because it's hot. This is the silvaloy braze front with Er70 behind. I included this pic also because I don't have a hitch yet. I could put a washer on to make a lunette. I think it needs a ball hitch. I was thinking heat up hitch cherry red and pound a push rod/w bearing into it to make a ball hitch. I could also weld one on later. After I forge it. Overthinking a bird house.
Ok , seriously tho , I gotta question for yous? What are the pros and cons of lunette/ Pintel hooks over the ball hitch? Roll? Also, what are the pros and con of 5 th vs goose neck? Also, I saw a unloade semi today towing a redundant semi trailer hitch. What does that do ? Weight distribution ?
Pic 1 this was supposed to be first pic because I never showed the door originally.
The first pic was supposed to be last to show new laser for demizing wall tomorrow. I was off on my paint job so I was going to use the laser to line up red paint. Elfit tho. I don't like prepping to paint. Kinda like grinding. No fun. This is the cheapest useful laser I ever bought. $69 Amazon. I have several lasers Hilti's etc but this had multi functions and cheap cheap.
Edit: while looking for hardware cloth in my stash/junk I found diamond lathe used for stucco. It's in pic 2 or fourth one down. It will work perfect for bird's.
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Reason: Thanks to all. Pics not in order
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“Ok , seriously tho , I gotta question for yous? What are the pros and cons of lunette/ Pintel hooks over the ball hitch? Roll? “
Pintle hitch setups allow much more movement at the hitch. For instance over rough ground at a construction site, off road military use, that kind of thing. I have one on my 12,000 lb GVWR equipment trailer and it’s great. Also much easier to hook up alone as it’s a bigger target. The pintle hitch doesn’t work with hydraulic brakes, though. I’ve never seen one on a boat trailer, for instance.