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The chickens have gone into overdrive in terms of egg production, this meant I had to change DIY priorities and make a farm gate egg selling box.
Last year, the wife made a simple wooden frame that fitted the wall below. She filled this with a big plastic box. The problem was that customers had an inability to close the box properly, meaning eggs would get blown onto the road, or the jackdaws would get into them. Also, the box got hot which can't be good for the eggs.
The wall is council built when they did some subsidence work on the road about 20 years ago. It's topped with lumps of old stone kerb stones. You can see where they cut them with a stihlsaw on the other side.
The plan is to make a frame that straddles the wall so it can be bolted down, both because of the weather and the odd bit of low life that drive past.
I forgot to take pics of the frame until I was well into the build. Apart from some 50 x 3mm strip, it's all odds and sods from the scrap bin. Here's underneath showing the frame and a couple of soffit vents that I had lying around. The back over hangs the wall a few inches so I can fit a more secure moneybox if needed. We will start with a simple jar for the honesty box.
The main body is made from print board. This is about 4 or 5mm thick, it's matt on one side, shiny the other. It's plastic, aluminium foil, polypropylene core, then more foil then plastic. It's very strong and ideal for this, this is all leftovers from when I built a camping trailer a couple of years ago.
Before fitting the roof.
All the aluminium profiles are left over from the camping trailer project too.
More soffit vents to keep it cool.
Now with roof, I put angle all around the top edge so it's unlikely to come off. It's all riveted with closed dome rivets.
Quite a large overhang, mainly to keep rain out of the vents and opening.
I'll probably fit it on Wednesday as the weather looks good. I'm waiting for some materials for the door, I can't just leave it open or the jackdaws will get the eggs. I have some signage that I'm painting too.
So far I've only had to buy two tubes of silicon, everything is leftover from other projects or hanging around in the workshop stock.
Last year, the wife made a simple wooden frame that fitted the wall below. She filled this with a big plastic box. The problem was that customers had an inability to close the box properly, meaning eggs would get blown onto the road, or the jackdaws would get into them. Also, the box got hot which can't be good for the eggs.
The wall is council built when they did some subsidence work on the road about 20 years ago. It's topped with lumps of old stone kerb stones. You can see where they cut them with a stihlsaw on the other side.
The plan is to make a frame that straddles the wall so it can be bolted down, both because of the weather and the odd bit of low life that drive past.
I forgot to take pics of the frame until I was well into the build. Apart from some 50 x 3mm strip, it's all odds and sods from the scrap bin. Here's underneath showing the frame and a couple of soffit vents that I had lying around. The back over hangs the wall a few inches so I can fit a more secure moneybox if needed. We will start with a simple jar for the honesty box.
The main body is made from print board. This is about 4 or 5mm thick, it's matt on one side, shiny the other. It's plastic, aluminium foil, polypropylene core, then more foil then plastic. It's very strong and ideal for this, this is all leftovers from when I built a camping trailer a couple of years ago.
Before fitting the roof.
All the aluminium profiles are left over from the camping trailer project too.
More soffit vents to keep it cool.
Now with roof, I put angle all around the top edge so it's unlikely to come off. It's all riveted with closed dome rivets.
Quite a large overhang, mainly to keep rain out of the vents and opening.
I'll probably fit it on Wednesday as the weather looks good. I'm waiting for some materials for the door, I can't just leave it open or the jackdaws will get the eggs. I have some signage that I'm painting too.
So far I've only had to buy two tubes of silicon, everything is leftover from other projects or hanging around in the workshop stock.
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If Carlsberg made egg sales boxes.....................Mighty impressive that
Well good thing there a few extra in the scrap pile
I'm not expecting it to survive full speed impacts with curbs etc just make anything that would normally get stuck on the brackets go under so I'll test it out next dry day.
