Ajax's Play Stand: IN the Making

[babypiggy]

Today fiancee brought home all the pvc material to make Ajax's playstand

i've been at it for an hour
and things are comming along


:)

here is what i've gotten so far

[babypiggy]

SO marjority of the constuction is done

here are some pics

[jimpierce7]

putting the castors on it is a great idea!! Looks pretty good so far.

[babypiggy]

just gotta figure out the "frame" of the poop tray.. i ran outta 90 degree elbows and ended up with extras of this and that
hmmmm

it's a little top heavy so i may switch the top and the bottom perch sections

then i have to sand off the "lettering" and roughen up the pvc for griiiiiiiiiip
and the food and water bowls

[r2rusmc]

It is real easy to make these things top heavy, especially after you start adding on toys.

What you can do to help counter that is to fill the bottom pieces with cement or sand then seal them off. Keep in mind the strength of the casters you are using to make sure they can handle the weight.

Worse case scenario where you can't find the size tray you are looking for is to cut a piece of tarp, add eyes to the corners and attach them to the four base posts. Kinda like an upside down parachute. The tarp would be easy enough to take off to dump out food and then set on the floor to clean the poop off. Just another idea... Actually, you could use any fabric to catch debris. With fabric, after you dump out the debris you can just throw them into the washer to clean the poop off.

[jimpierce7]

using old blankets tossed over the bottom section adds weight and support as well. I did that for a whhile until I decided my fids can't knock over the play stands.

[babypiggy]

hmm thats an idea

i gotta go to the hardware store to pick up some parts that i broke
hehe oops

i guess tapping it in harder and harder wasn't a good idea
:P

[animecouple]

ohh... I asked for pics in your other thread... sorry! COOL! about what do you think the whole thing will cost to make? if you dont mind me asking..... sorry to be snoopy!

Looks like fun! r u going to put food dishes and water dishes on? and if so how will you?

good luck!

[babypiggy]

yes i have

it's complete cept i have to sand down the main perches
and i contact cement 2 pvc caps back to back (one is 1" to fit the pipes and the other is 3" as the dish that was the biggest i could find at the small hardware store close by - i had to walk)

its easily taken off to wash
just dont' push it in all the way probably 3/4 of the way and it wont' be stuck

i spent $115 for the pvc but i mis calculated somewhere hehehehe
so i have about 15-20ft extra of the pipes
some connectors and stuff

and the non pvc items cost about 30$ (wheels,screws,eye hooks,brackets)

so in total it would be 145$ but since i had extra pvc left over it would be closer to $100 ish (canadian) EH!

lols

which is still considerable cheaper than a site i saw selling the pvc play stand i got my main idea from which they sold for about $350 (not including shipping)

[dancelady]

When you made this, did you check it out all finished to see if it would stay put and not fall over when the bird(s) got on the edges somewhere? That's the only thing that would mess this up because it's so tall. In my case, I have lovebirds so they couldn't mess it up even with several perching on one spot. By the way, what Pet dept. do you handle in BC? Couldn't you have ordered one wholesale?!

Dancelady