A collection of plans, diagrams, ideas and instructions on How-To make or do things. Typically these are simple projects that have never found their way into any of our books but are still worth sharing.
My dad made my first one of these to keep in the back of the Landrover. Such a simple but invaluable device I now have 3 or 4 scattered about the place and I always keep a spare in the motor to give away in emergencies. Once you’ve found yourself with boots covered in thick [...]
We’re not really net makers here at Fourteenacre, although we do recognise the skill and craftsmanship that goes into a hand made net. We’ve had a few requests for net gauges, the spacers that are used when tying a net, so I thought I’d have a go at making one from a rectangular aluminium blank. It turned [...]
This article was written by Lee Newman a friend of mine who is known as ‘The Old Trap Collector‘. It is reproduced here with his permission. Small ground vermin such as rats, grey squirrels and the weasel tribe can be effectively trapped by a tried and tested technique known as tunnel trapping. Such vermin are [...]
We had a few hits last summer from people looking to make a wasp trap.
This is just another variant on the Tunnel Trap passive door principle and is very quick and easy to make.
