The following bird feeder is simple to make, requires very few tools and costs very little. We adapted some ideas we had seen and turned out this feeder as part of Dementia Canterbury’s twice monthly wood working group who meets at Bunnings Shirley. Materials: Fence Paling Wood – 150mm wide x 400mm long. Either 19mm […]
Month: June 2018
How Many Things Can You Make From A Fence Paling?
We love fence palings. Fence palings rock. So many of the jobs we do involve fence palings: Tool Boxes; Raised Gardens; Planter Boxes, Shoe Scrapers, Kindling / Wood Boxes and of course – fences. Some of the reasons we use fence palings are: Easy to get: We know we can get them from Bunnings, Mitre […]
H Is For Hazard – The Issues When Working With Treated Wood
We often get asked to make raised gardens (link) Wooden fence palings are our goto wood of choice. The problem with this is that they are H3.2 treated. H stands for hazardous (arsenic in this case) and that’s not something you would want in your veges. THe most common type of treatment is known as […]
Instructions for Making Raised Gardens From Fence Palings
One of the more common jobs the LMS gets involved in is making raised wooden garden beds from fence palings. Normally the requested work doesn’t arrive with the instruction to use fence palings, but after reviewing options it’s normally decided that fence palings are the best and most economical option. Feel free to read why […]