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What is the best thing you ever made with PVC?
Just curious to see hear some creative ideas of what you have done with pvc. I made a clothes rack for the laundry room, and a mineral feeder for the goats.
Anybody else have something special they would like to share? I am looking for some good projects to do with the kids.
Pics are encouraged!!!!
Thanks!
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07/30/06, 05:31 PM
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A hoophouse style of greenhouse. Two actually, but the first was very simple.
Everything else was mostly repair work.
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07/30/06, 06:02 PM
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A potato gun
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07/30/06, 06:38 PM
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Gazebo for a wedding....
inside the church.
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07/30/06, 06:46 PM
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A portable camping shower using a 12 volt bilge pump and a 30 gallon barrel. It also included a frame to hang a shower curtain on
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07/30/06, 06:49 PM
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Chicken tractor, mineral feeder, nest box...I think that's all.
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07/30/06, 06:57 PM
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A turkey tractor. We like it so much we're making another one.
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07/30/06, 08:42 PM
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Wow! Never thought about a shower - great idea!
Same for the nest box - how did you do that??
I've seen hoophouses made with pvc.
Interested in the potato gun to - how did you do that??
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07/30/06, 09:04 PM
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A portable puppet stage.
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07/30/06, 09:24 PM
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My husband makes flutes...several flutes, all tuned differently. He makes the keys out of metal.
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07/30/06, 09:33 PM
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What is the best thing you ever made with PVC?
TRASH!! Not really, it does have it place and uses. However I'm not a big fan of it for water pipe in houses. I removed mine and installed copper after coming home to an elbow that had split and was spewing water.
I am looking at using PVC to make guide rollers for a hose reel on a spray truck. I'll use a hole saw to cut plugs to fit inside of the ends of the pipe so that the pipe can turn on an axle. The axle will be fit into hole left by the pilot bit of the hole saw--after enlarging it of course.
One roller will be horizontal while there will also be a verticle one at each end of it to keep the hose from jumping over the end of the reel. Sprays get on the hose and would get on the roller so the use of PVC would prevent corrision.
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07/30/06, 09:33 PM
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marshmellow guns
puppet stage
knitty notty (I make yarn with angora rabbit wool.)
tool holder that holds screwdrivers
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07/30/06, 10:08 PM
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Y'all are pretty creative... I'm taking notes...
The only things I've made (so far) with PVC are soap molds and aerators for the compost piles.
But now I have lots of ideas... DH better hide his collection of PVC...
BWAhahahahaha!
Pony!
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07/30/06, 10:47 PM
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Light weight portable fences I can put around the raised beds in the garden so the chickens can range through and eat bugs, and my veggies are safe.
You can kind of see the fences in this photo:
You can also see the frames for the hoop houses. The picture was taken before I got the plastic set over the hoops.
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I made a TP for my son's 10th birthday. I don't think he can fit into it anymore 
Love this thread - everyone is SOOOO creative.
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07/30/06, 10:56 PM
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Potato guns involve potatoes, a ramrod, a striking device and hairspray. Lots and lots of cheap hairspray. We always got the best bang out of Aqua Net I think it was. God, how did I live to be this old?
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07/30/06, 11:13 PM
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Haven't done it yet, but I plan to make both chicken and rabbit tractors, and a hoophouse. We used a 20' long piece of 2" to clean out a 4" sewer line that was clogged. Built a few little cages that were wrapped with wire for temporarily holding animals to carry them home or deliver sold ones. Made a 6' ladder out of 2" schedule 80 one time. Used it for awhile, but didn't feel real safe on it and bought a real ladder. Used short pieces of 4" to bury when we planted new trees. Poured water down them to water the trees until they were established, then pulled them out (boy was that a headache!) Used a piece of 3" for a leg on a milking stool a few years ago. Used lots of leftover 2" pieces to stake plants in the garden, did double duty, held the plants up and used them to shoot water down to the roots. Made a rectangle with mister heads installed to keep cuttings misted while they rooted.
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07/30/06, 11:40 PM
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Best or most creative? Best is indoor plumbing after a year of an outhouse and taking showers in the dairy barn. That first flush was a cause for celebration!
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07/30/06, 11:52 PM
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Splints for the sheep and hanging feeders. Also have used it to frame a top for the chicken tractor.
I like the chicken fence idea and the hoop frames! I'll have to show DH. He will start his garden earlier next year! Explain the potatoe gun, please. It sounds like fun.
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07/31/06, 12:29 AM
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I, too, made an outdoor shower stall ( 7 feet tall by 3 feet square). Keep it on the back lawn behind a tool shed, and hang a couple tarps on it for privacy. Put a 15 gallon white plastic barrel ($5 at junk store) up on top of the shed which water gets warm during the day and I shower in evening. Hose comes down from barrel, then a Y one side to hose going to shower, the other side receives water from a hose when refilling in mornings. Need an air vent in the top hole of barrel.
Light PVC allows me to move shower around within reach of hose, and water different parts of lawn. I lay it down when not using so wind doesn't blow it around. For shower head, I use a brass spray nozzle - hang it through 1" holes I drilled in 2X4 hung vertically in top half of stall. Can choose which hole you want depending on your height.
Our laundry room is next to garage. Put a wood stove in far side of garage, made a sheet metal hood, and ran a duct over to enter laundry room near ceiling, with a fan to pull hot air in. Hung a PVC clothes drying rack near the ceiling. 1 Ό pipe as outside frame just smaller than the room, with smaller diameter PVC between hung them with wire loops on ends so can slide and change spacing. Pull clothes out of washer, throw over pipe, and when dry, slide off easily as pipe is slick. Hung one strand of clothesline across frame for real small stuff (short socks). This all dries clothes and humidifies house in winter air circulates to upstairs to return air fan going back into garage.
In garden, I use PVC conduit (sunlight resistant) pipe for watering 50 foot rows. First I laid 1 Ό PVC just underground along edge of garden, fed on each end by hydrants. From this mainline, teed up to Ύ street elbows just above ground with rows every 40 inches. Reduce to ½ pipe and PVC ball valve and the 50 of 1/2 PVC on each row. Drilled holes every foot in top of pipe, increasing in size from 4/64 to 6/64 (1/16 to 3/32), since pressure drops toward end. To keep water from shooting off somewhere, made clips out of discarded pallet metal banding. Cut 3 pieces, bend tip on both ends, then bend in center to make V shape that is spring loaded and clips over pipe to cover holes and deflect water down.
Anyway, I keep tinkering, but seems to work. I do 2 lines at once and watering for 8 to 15 minutes, depending on plants (from carrots to raspberries). Smaller plants, and even corn, I plant on both sides of the pipe.
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