Video: Selecting Wood for Bird Feeder

Learn how to select the wood for a bird feeder plan from an expert birdhouse builder in this free yard crafts video.

Video Transcript

We are going to start off building this bird feeder. I happen to have some wood here. It was all old and grooved and I cut off the ends. The old grooves so it is about 5 inches wide. You can use any kind of wood that you want. This just happens to be Aspen that we grooved and used on a cabin up on Cider Mountain for my boy, so he let me have this wood. So we would start off making the back part of it first because we are going to hang it similar to this on. But we would cut it off on the saw. When we cut this off about 12 inches and just cut it off. This would be the back right here we would put a hole through it. We would make the side pieces we would make them like I guess this was 11 1/2 we would make the side pieces 7 inches. So we would take the best part of the wood and make 2 side pieces which we are going to make about 7 inches. Sizes you really don't have to worry too much about the size whatever it comes out, but when you are putting it together you want it fairly squared. We would make this one 7 inches and we would cut it off. We would make another one the same size. We have 2 side pieces they would go on like this. The next thing we have to do is make the front piece.

Selecting Wood for Bird Feeder

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