Wi-Fi Bird Feeder repairs - Part 2

For Part 1 we repaired, modified and strengthened the bird feeder.

For this session we are reducing the height of the stand down to about five and a half feet.

Girls have been with me all the time in the workshop scanning for every individual seed lol.

Wi-Fi Bird Feeder repairs - Part 1

We need to further strengthen the feeder to withstand Cockatoo attacks!

Remove the Wi-Fi Valve aka Actuator from the base mount.

Wi-Fi Chicken Annex Door 5

With a medical appointment this morning and a dental one this afternoon wasn't much left of the day but did manage to fix the wire mesh to the door frames.

Trimming and stapling the wire mesh onto the internal (chook run) door frame.

Wi-Fi Chicken Annex Door - Part 4

With the wi-fi chicken annexe door installed went back this morning to tidy up the wiring for that. Looking around decided to review all the wiring - electrical and networking - and it's a good thing I did that!

Setting up to tidy-up the annexe door wiring.

Wi-Fi Chicken Annexe Door - Part 3

With the annex door installed into the annex gate we can move onto mounting the actuator on a base and make the actuator arm.

The door actuator is ready to install.

Wi-Fi Chicken Annexe Door - Part 2

In this session we installed the wi-fi door into the annexe gate.

Removed the annexe gate and took it into the workshop.

Wi-Fi Chicken Annexe Door - Part 1

 Making another door this time for the chook run annexe gate.

I stuffed around for quite a while making the first one for the chook run this one took less than one hour!

This one will cop the weather so we are using exterior 3mm plywood.