OT: bird house

KD Cannon · Feb 12, 2015

Been making some bird houses for family & friends. Used some old barn wood & roof tin on some of them decorated them up with this & that.

56oliver · Feb 12, 2015

Looks like one dang fine bird house to me!

Janicholson · Feb 12, 2015

Monday before last I had 24 ETS 130 Intro to Woods class build bird houses from a set of my plans. Very simple, used table saws and chop saws. Though easy, it proved several vital learning experiences, like follow directions, nail straight, and measure carefully. Nice work, Jim

Mark - IN. · Feb 12, 2015

Very nice. You do very good work and should be proud of yourself.

Mark

RayP(MI) · Feb 12, 2015

Nice. Mine are far more Spartian. Birds don't care.

SweetFeet · Feb 12, 2015

They're neat. I like the little RUSTic touches.

ShadetreeRet · Feb 12, 2015

No self respecting bird would pass those up! On the second house, is that a drawer pull or fence insulator used for the perch?

KD Cannon · Feb 12, 2015

Small part of my great grandparents old barn was just to far gone to save as it was. I did carefully take it apart and store it though. Been making cabinets, siding small yard shed and scrap pieces used for the bird houses. It has allot of character but is very fragile to work with. Still has allot of pine resin in some of the boards. Mostly square nails & some of the hardest, full dimension 2X4's I've ever seen. Going to take care of the rest of the barn and hopefully it'll last a couple more generations. Thank you for the nice comments. Cannon

KD Cannon · Feb 12, 2015

Drawer pull on 2nd one.

Paul from MI · Feb 12, 2015

Don't paste a copy of the photo in the third picture inside the bird house--scare the birds off. Ha, Ha.

KD Cannon · Feb 12, 2015

Couple of yard shed I did with barn siding.

KD Cannon · Feb 12, 2015

Now that you mention it, yeah it would! In that picture, the man on the right is my great grandpa, he built the barn the wood came from. One in the middle is his dad, my great-great. He lived across the road where our daughter lives now.

howdy1960 · Feb 13, 2015

Good looking homes and nice way to use something of family's history.

The FIL used to make bluebird boxes and had them up from upstate NY to SC where he had another property. Was told once a year would take a wks vaca to check and clean them out.
I'm thinking was to get away from wife and 5 kids for a week LOL

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