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Hollow Birch Birdhouses!

Project by Dick, & Barb Cain posted 491 days ago 380 views 0 times favorited 16 comments Add to Favorites Watch

I sawed down a dead Birch tree, & discovered it was hollow.

These three pieces laid in the wood pile for quite awhile.

I just drilled a hole, & used cedar shingles for the tops, & bottoms.

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More Birdhouses!

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I’ll have apologize to all of you, because I discovered I posted these before.

I checked to see if they had been posted before, but I must have had a Senior Moment.

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-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1


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CharlieM1958

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posted 491 days ago

Great use of a tree!

I sure do love your place.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

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blackcherry

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posted 491 days ago

Is that consider a townhouse or a condo…what ever it a room with a view…nice eco work Blkcherry

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Diane

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posted 491 days ago

This is such a cool idea and the finished project has a nice natural look. I enjoyed seeing your table and seats again too.

Diane

-- http://s205.photobucket.com/albums/bb276/DMarcella/

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trifern

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posted 491 days ago

Don’t forget to put a room on it for the squirrels to store their nuts for the winter.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

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SteveKorz

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posted 491 days ago

I like those, really nice. Those quick, easy projects are always really rewarding.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

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steveosshop

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posted 491 days ago

Thats a good idea for wood most would consider only firewood. Thanx for the post!!

-- Steve-o

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Dick, & Barb Cain

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posted 491 days ago

Thanks to all of you!

Good old mother nature did the hardest part.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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jockmike2

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posted 491 days ago

Looks like you’re enjoying summer Dick, where summer’s best, at the “palace in the popals”. You and Barb catching any walleye? Hope every thing’s ducky for you two in upper MINN. Nice idea for a birdhouse.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

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Dick, & Barb Cain

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posted 491 days ago

Hi Mike!

You can’t catch a Walleye with a drill-driver, & saw.

We leave the Walleyes for the tourists.

When they go by in their boat, I point to were the fish are.<;O)

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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Grumpy

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posted 491 days ago

You could have a market for those Dick.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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MsDebbieP

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posted 490 days ago

you never stop, do you!

and it’s nice to see you in the picture :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Lee A. Jesberger

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posted 490 days ago

Hi Dick;

Wow, now your building trees?

They look so real.

Say Hi to Barb.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

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sharad

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posted 490 days ago

Simply wonderful ! Sharad

-- patanjali

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Dick, & Barb Cain

7043 posts in 1197 days


posted 490 days ago

Thanks Lee, & Sharad!

A quick, & easy project. You just have to wait for the tree to rot. LOL

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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SawDustnSplinters

224 posts in 679 days


posted 490 days ago

Thanx Dick ….just wish we had some birch in Texas, oh well just have to improvise and use whatever hollow log I can find….

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com

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Dick, & Barb Cain

7043 posts in 1197 days


posted 489 days ago

I just noticed the other day, that a Birch tree broke off about halfway up from the top.

It ended up in the lake, so I’ll have to wade out in the water to get it.

A flicker had a nest in it for the past few years.

I’ll have an instant birdhouse, built by a bird.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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