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Home & Garden Projects
14 projects
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Compressed logs
Turning old newspapers into compressed logs for my rocket stove...
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Homemade Pig Trough
How I saved money by making a new pig feeding trough from an old gas bottle...
Mouse early warning system
In this project, I've set up an infrared motion sensor connected to a Raspberry Pi. When movement is detected a text message alert is sent to my mo...
Sticky dead fly catcher
A 3d printed 'saucer' to catch those sticky dead flies that fall of off the fly paper strips. No more sticky flies stuck to the furniture!...
3D Printed Chicken Feeder
A 3d printed chicken feeder, attached to a length of 100mm PVC pipe and hung up under the henhouse. Provides up to 5 days of food for my 6 hens an...
Chicken Slaughter Station
Here's my chicken slaughtering station, after building a chicken plucker a couple of years ago that speeded up the plucking process, I now need a more e...
Making A Fly Trap From A Storage Jar
Here’s my fly trap made from a storage jar. Using a standard ‘Le Parfait’ style storage jar and a 3d printed lid I have replicated a fly trap desig...
3D Printed Lawn Scarifier
I have recently accepted the job of regenerating my neighbours lawn. The lawn has been neglected for the past few years and is more moss than grass...
Recycled Planter for the Greenhouse
This is how I went about turning a plastic barrel into something useful. I'm always struggling to find enough pots and trays to sow and grow on see...
3D Printed Ivy Killer
For the past 15 years I've been fighting a battle against the ivy which grows on building and trees around my property. It seems to re-grow almost ...
Plucking Multiple Chickens
I wanted to see how my homemade chicken plucker would cope with processing 2 chickens at a time. I was a bit concerned that the electric motor woul...
Homemade Chicken Plucker Featherplate
This year I did a complete dismantle to check for wear and tear, and found that as expected the finger plate made from OSB3 board is suffering a bi...
Homemade Chicken Plucker
After years of plucking chickens by hand. I finally got motivated to find an alternative method. We process a minimum of 100 home reared table chic...
Automated Green Laser Bird Scare
Building a green laser bird repellent using an Arduino Uno and some basic hobby electronics. Used to deter the winter starling invasion in the cow ...