Alright everyone I was amazed when I saw the prices of double door pigeon traps and decided ya know what I'm gonna build my own and keep my budget to $30,well here's the results,and just a heads up I know there aren't any door bob's installed at this current time I'm still deciding exactly how I want to tackle that aspect with the remaining money from the budget anyway here's my step by step instructions with pictures. Total measurements on my trap are 36" long 12"tall 24"wide
Here's the tools used nothing more nothing less
Here's the wire I used the most expensive part of this,it is 1"x1" mesh 24" wide and 15' long total $12.99
30 feet of 1/2" pvp piping at $2.06 a 10foot length total $6.18
8x 1/2" 90 degree elbows @ $0.28 each and 8x 1/2" "T" fittings at $0.32 each total cost $4.80
First cut 8x 1 1/4" long pieces of the 1/2" pvc
Next join the "T" and the 90 elbow with these 1 1/4" pieces like so
When you are finished you should have something resembling this, we will call these the corners and braces
Now cut 4x pvc pipe 32 1/2" and 4x pvc pipe 21 1/2" and insert them into the corner and braces looking like this
Now cut 4x pvc pipe 10 1/4" long and insert them into the upright "T" fitting (upward bracing) and join the two halfs together
Now unwrap the roll of wire and count 3 holes(this will be 3inches)and create a sharp 90 degree angle,I just used my hands and creased it at the seam,word of advice,unroll a section of wire,hold the roll in your hands and "walk it out" unrolling and stepping on the wire at the same time,bending out the form it took while in the roll
Now set the frame over the 3" lip and pull the roll of wire all the way around the frame and back to the 3" lip bending and sharpening the corners where needed and pull 3" more and overlap this seam
This will cover 4/6 sides of your cage,now use the remaining length of wire to cover the side and snip it,whould have about 8 inches of wire total left over,I overlayed the wire on each corner by about 5 inches for extra sturdiness and strength of the cage but you can choose to snip it clean on the corners,completely your choice
I used the old time method of fashioning the wire to itself by cutting the straight edge off and rolling the protuding end over it's counterpart with the pliers thus creating a nice extremely sturdy seam,just roll by hand 1 complete loop then grab with the pliers and continue to roll over until it looks like the last picture
Total time invested about 3 hours including lunchbreak and a few smoke breaks
Total cost of project $26.14
