Again, I envy your cage! This is what I was talking about with the “ropes” my conure loves. When my conure is behaving, she’ll run down to the foot of the bed and get on one of her perches in order to poop. The two perches on both sides of the tree I created in order to teach my conure to fly from one perch to another, each time widening the gap between them. When not being used for that purpose, they make great poop stations.
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WOW!!!:32: I am SO impressed! You have schematics for that thing? Now I feel like constructing something fabulous...don’t think I’d be so amazingly successful though LOL!
No schematics. I have a drill press and made two blocks by drilling through two by four scraps. Into those blocks, I laid a six foot long, thick dowell (1 1/4 or 1 1/2, in diameter, I don’t recall). Using a two-inch strip of sandpaper that I cut to cover the circumference of the dowel, and a piece of tape, I created a ring, a ring that became a jig. I slipped that ring around the end of the six foot long dowel. I used a pencil to draw perfect circles around the dowel every two inches. I also made two marks on the edge of that sandpaper ring, using a sharpy pen, one mark being located exactly one-inch from another sharpy mark on the edge of the sand-paper ring. Using the two marks on the edge of the sandpaper ring, I was able to transfer marks over each ring I’d penciled in, onto the dowel; in so doing, I ensured that each mark on each ring penciled onto the dowel, was exactly two inches higher and exactly one inch to the left from the last marking on the dowel. This is just how I decided to go about evenly staggering the holes I was about to drill. Each mark I made on the dowel, using my ring jig, became a drill mark on the thick wooden dowel.
The blocks I made out of pieces of two-by-four’s that I cut down two equal size on my miter saw. I drilled a hole through the center of each of the blocks. That hole was created using a hole saw bit that was the same diameter as the thick dowel rod I bought from the store. I clamped down both blocks, using wood clamps. Into those blocks, through the holes, I had created perfect braces for free floating the thick wooden dowel beneath my drill press.
As I drilled holes, I simply spung the dowel beneath the brace blocks and drilled holes on the marks.
I think I used a half-inch drill bit, to drill all of those evenly staggered holes. I also purchased about dozens of 30 feet of 1/2-inch dowels. Using the fence I set on my upright bandsaw to repeatedly enable me to cut my 1/2-inch dowel into one-foot sections every time, I cut exactly 30, one-foot long sections of 1/2-inch dowel.
I used a wooden mallet to pound each of the one-foot long dowel sections through the 30 holes I’d drilled through the thick wooden dowel ( 6-foot long by 1 1/4-inch or 1 1/2-inch diameter). A little wood glue solidifies the bond. This created a spiraling staircase for the bird. That itself, without more, was highly entertaining for the conure.
I drilled this wooden dowel into the top piece of a small wooden platform. I screwed castor wheels onto the bottom side of the wooden platform so that my wife and I can pull or push this tree around, at ease because of the wheels.
On the top, I used a four-inch diameter hole saw bit to cut a circular cookie out of some spare piece of 1x6. I drilled some 3/8 inch holes into that cookie, screwed the cookie onto the top of the thick dowel rod, then pounded in some 3/8-inch diameter sections of dowel rod into that cookie in order to make some spokes for the top.
After that, I just went hog wild crazy with several hundred feet of 3/8-inch diameter nylon rope. The more rope, the better! My conure loves the rope! She loves it! To make this tree even more irresistible, I have hung several cat toys on the tree. She loves to shake them and yell at them.
Did that make sense or should I have been more sober?
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