Williams Wares and Gardening

Just a short follow up to my previous video showing the concrete bottom of the feed barrels.

Hope you enjoy! Feed: Equal parts cracked corn and oats Half that amount in black oil sunflower seed Three bags of split green pea (more or less if you want) Some oyster shell for extra calcium Got the barrels locally. Got the PVC at Lowe’s. I had to order the valves from Amazon because Lowe’s didn’t have valves that large.

This is actually my second one I’ve made. The first one died on me. I took the paper shredder apart and then used a Dremel tool to cut the plastic to open it up wider so corn kernels would fit. Then I added the “barrier” around the inside (that you can’t see when it’s back together) using the same material as the funnel and superglue. This prevents the corn kernels from falling back into the housing and getting around the gears. Enjoy!

I’ve been doing this to a lot of my old barnwood and made some furniture for indoors that always turns out beautiful. I’m using a 100 grit sandpaper pad (you can use 80-120 grit and still be okay in my opinion) for the first sanding. Then finish it with the MINWAX Polycrilic. Let it dry then sand it again with a 220 grit pad. Then hit it with another coat of Polycrilic. You can use the barnwood outside but you’d need to use an outdoor stain/sealer for it to last.