Brilliant beautiful DIY - your project, if you choose to accept it is to build a bat house using?
wooden pallets. Any suggestions for construction. Have a basic idea of the dimensions. Thanks for your advice.
The Answer by MT C
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Basically you want to construct a long narrow box with one open end. Construct the box frame (three sides only, the fourth will be the down end for the entrance, from the approximately 2×4 cross supports (use solid ones if possible without forklift cut outs.Nail together forming a U shape. Next take a 2×4 with forklift cut outs and nail it across the open end of the U about 8 inches from the open end. Next nail the flat pallet boards across the U aligning with the closed end of the U frame, so that the board overlap the cut out holes of the open end cross brace. Do only one side for now. Mount the filled frame side to the post(s) to support the bat house off the ground about 3 feet. Location should be shady and out of the hot sun. Once the box is mounted, then fill remaining side with flat pallet boards the same as for the other side which is mounted to the poles. The flat board should be as close together as possible, but don’t try to seal the gaps as they provide ventilation and the bats won’t mind a little light.
The following link provides several bat house plans which you can modify for the local residents and for the materials you want to use. The pallet boards are good as they are rough sawn and will provide plenty of places for the bats to get a grip on. Good luck and the bats are fun to watch chase and catch the bugs in your back yard.
http://www.eparks.org/wildlife_protection/wildlife_facts/bats/bat_house.asp
MT C
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Basically you want to construct a long narrow box with one open end. Construct the box frame (three sides only, the fourth will be the down end for the entrance, from the approximately 2×4 cross supports (use solid ones if possible without forklift cut outs.Nail together forming a U shape. Next take a 2×4 with forklift cut outs and nail it across the open end of the U about 8 inches from the open end. Next nail the flat pallet boards across the U aligning with the closed end of the U frame, so that the board overlap the cut out holes of the open end cross brace. Do only one side for now. Mount the filled frame side to the post(s) to support the bat house off the ground about 3 feet. Location should be shady and out of the hot sun. Once the box is mounted, then fill remaining side with flat pallet boards the same as for the other side which is mounted to the poles. The flat board should be as close together as possible, but don’t try to seal the gaps as they provide ventilation and the bats won’t mind a little light.
The following link provides several bat house plans which you can modify for the local residents and for the materials you want to use. The pallet boards are good as they are rough sawn and will provide plenty of places for the bats to get a grip on. Good luck and the bats are fun to watch chase and catch the bugs in your back yard.
http://www.eparks.org/wildlife_protection/wildlife_facts/bats/bat_house.asp
MT C
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well you wont need a whole pallet for a bat house..
and its location is important when your done.
protect from the wind.
warm during the day..
look to where they are now, and maybe you
get a new family of pups!
they'll find the mosquitoes you have
so dont grow more mosquitos for them!
haha!
http://free.woodworking-plans.org/bat-house-plans.html
im still lmao up at weevys upside down pic!
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You have a design drawn up?Pallets are fine,disassemble them,pull the nails out.To make wider boards;place boards on a flat surface,look at the end grain(growth rings need to be opposite,one board with rings up,next with the rings down).Most boards are flatsawn(picture a tree that has been cut down,on the cut end you can see the growth rings,the mill cuts the tree lying on its side the long way,these boards are flatsawn).Quartersawn is better,the rings are nearly vertical(boards cut close to the left or right of center of the tree).Glue the edges,stick them together,use bar clamps alternate them one on top,one under,this helps keep the boards flat to each other.Wait a day for them to dry.
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