/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>445032
rip the 2x4s into 2x2 and make cages

Here's one I just finished recently. It is a cage for small chickens and ducks. It uses all new parts. It is treated pine lumber and metal hardware. It has 2 doors. The largest door opens the entire side of the cage; outwardly. The smaller door is inside the larger door and opens inwardly. Both are held closed using an aluminum rod that is run through 2 hasps and fastened with a hairpin-style cotter pin. The hardware cloth is inset so that there is less chance of animals crapping directly on the wooden frame and to give your hands a nice place at the top to grab and move the cage. The corners are simply butt-end joints with 2 long screws fastening them together in addition to thick L-brackets in every inside corner. The dimensions escape me at the moment, but you can see a large cinder block in one image and the boards are 2"x2". Hopefully, it will last a lifetime.

Total cost in newly purchased parts: $165 USD

What have you been up to, /diy/?

>>431510
Learn to read,

>You have to allow the cord to turn freely as you wrap

Meaning it doesn't twist. I've been wrapping extension cables for over 30 years now around my elbow and have never had problems with the wires twisting inside. It is the same thing you need to do when you wind up a garden how on your elbow. You need to give it room and fling the thing up properly.

Stop being a dumbass.