HOW TO TURN A SHOPPING CART INTO A RABBIT CAGE - A Papa-Pepper Original
Making good use of my 22 shopping carts has begun!
As many of you may already know, @papa-pepper recently became the proud owner of 22 broken shopping carts. My thoughts were that they make some great rabbit cages, and it turns out that I was right!
This is just my recently attempt and the first time I have ever done this. All I had was an idea in my head, but it worked out really well.
HOW TO TURN A SHOPPING CART INTO A RABBIT CAGE
Choose a shopping cart from your available supply.
Locate a reciprocating saw.
Cut the metal where the child seat attaches to the cart.
By cutting through one side of the loop, the whole side should detach.
Remove both pieces.
Leave the swinging rear door attached.
Cut the bolts securing the basket of the cart to the frame.
Remove the frame and save to use with some other fun project.
Keep the basket and the bottom from the child seat.
Locate a drill, wire, tin snips, pliers, and scrap metal roofing.
Use the pliers to bend one end of the bottom of the child seat out.
Make sure it is basically straight.
Hook the child seat bottom around the edge of the leg openings on the basket.
Bend the end back over to secure it.
Use wire to lock the edges in place and remove the plastic flap.
Make sure your metal roofing scrap is big enough to overhang the top of the basket.
Center the roofing on the basket and mark where the meet.
Drill a hole on each side of where they meet.
Bend small sections of wire into “U” shapes and attach the roof to the top of the basket.
Twist them tight on top to secure the roof.
Attach a longer “U” of wire to the swing door to use as a water bottle holder.
On the end opposite of the swinging door, measure how wide your rabbit feeder is.
Mark which bars to cut and how high to cut them so the feeder will fit snugly.
Snip the bars at the appropriate height with the tin snips.
Bend down the bottom sides of the bars you snipped to create an opening.
Insert the feeder.
Secure the feeder.
Use a carabiner to lock the bottom of the swinging door.
Your rabbit cage is complete!
Additional Options
Since I will be using mine as “rabbit tractors” where they can be moved daily and have access to fresh green grass through the bottom, I’ll leave the bottom of the basket as is. If I was going to raise the cage and suspend it, I would add some hardware cloth to the bottom. Just make sure that the hardware cloth is large enough to allow the rabbit manure to fall through.
The swinging part of the cart will be the door, and it is large enough to allow a small shelter or nesting box to be inserted. This will come in handy for rabbits that will be housed outdoors in their cage, and also during when breeding/birthing rabbits.
VIDEO OF FINISHED PROJECT!!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-shopping-cart-rabbit-cage
Until next time…
STEEMIT LIKE YOU MEAN IT!
Haha! Awesome DIY ! Thanks for shareing , is that Pepper in your new cage ! ?🐰🐇🐰🐇 It sure looks like Pepper !?!? Lol! 🐰🐇🐰🐇
It is Pepper!
Haha ! I KNEW IT LOL ! 👍😂🐰🐇Do i get a prize for guessing the right rabbit ! ? Haha just kidding , steeming on ! Lol!😂😂😂🐰🐇
Should I be the one to point out that this is a trigger release shy of a cage trap?
Excellent point... I'll get working on a prototype! Honestly, I hadn't even considered that yet!
How about a free STEEM MON t shirt for the tip? What size do you wear?
LOL I honestly thought that is why you had got them the other day. I thought rabbit cage was a cute way of saying rabbit trap. 3x mon!
The "child seat" part could easily be rigged to fall either straight down or kept as is and most likely fall into place fairly well, the only issue with falling without modification is if something large get's in and gets stuck between the child seat area and the bottom of the cart. Maybe just remove child seat part and use a hinged board folded over itself? Same general idea, stick/trigger system to drop it and let it unfold itself while falling and keep in your critter.
I'll pick up some 3X tees then and get a shipping address from you on steemit.chat when I get them ready!
I thought you would leave the feet on.
And my thought was to build little pitched roofs for each cart.
But that is because I am insanely good builder of things.
Nice job @papa-pepper. As always....
Thank you so much for that!
That looks cute! Don't you think the space is a little small though? Rabbits usually need a bit more room - unless you use these for transport? Oh and maybe add some kind of flooring, those little feet may not quite like it!
Optimum living space for a rabbit is said to be around 12 square feet. This is just to get them out nibbling fresh greens without getting eaten or lost. Thanks for your concern though!
Mobile rabbit feeding armour! I like it ;)
Fantastic. 22 new homes for 22 🐇
I wanna ask u personally about the steemit's rule recently after HF18, I see the effect on earning rewards is very hard..espesially the user who has 70 popularity like you..do you think it is just a temporary glitch? Or it will back soon such the previous version..? I lost some rewards due to HF18 last day..wht do u think? Will I get them back? Thank you
I really need clear explanation from u @papa-pepper..
I do not know for sure, but I think that the post payouts should look similar to how they used to within the next 5 days. I suspect that prior to these posts actually paying out, things should look more normal.
That is only my guess though, and I have no "hard evidence" that anything will happen. Someone with steemit.inc may have a real answer.
You right..we now just wait for the next official information, Does HF18 will come in every month? Or in certain period? Thank u for ur answer...
Hardfork 18 was just an update. More hardforks will eventually come, and with each hardfork different changes can/will be made. Part of the last one was changing the payout time from 24 hours to 7 days. We will have to see what other ideas they come up with moving forward.
so good idea... ^^
Thank you!
Awesome Possum!
Great post and great photo of you and Monster truck at the end!