{"id":3070,"date":"2013-12-20T17:28:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T22:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2013-12-20T17:28:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T22:28:31","slug":"homemade-pvc-animal-proof-food-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=3070","title":{"rendered":"Homemade PVC Animal Proof Food Containers"},"content":{"rendered":"

DIY Project By Colin Mullen<\/p>\n

Last season we spent a few days kayak and canoe camping on Adirondack\u2019s, Middle Saranac Lake with a few friends. Dara and I went by canoe since we were taking our cocker spaniel puppy Finley with us. After last season\u2019s camping trip, I decided I would make some bear resistant food containers. I did not say bear \u201cproof\u201d food containers because I have not tested them using a bear.<\/p>\n

Having nothing planned for today, I made my bear\/animal resistant food containers. I started by purchasing most of the items at Lowe\u2019s. There I purchased a four inch by two-foot piece of PVC pipe, two female threaded adapters and since I did not want the clean-out plugs with the square external wrench fitting\u00a0 I purchased two flush clean-out plugs.<\/p>\n

\"Flush<\/a>
Flush mount screw-in endcap and adaptor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My thought was an animal could conceivably place its teeth on the square clean-out plug and turn it.\u00a0 Since Lowe\u2019s did not stock flat-bottomed end plugs I went to Riverhead Building Supply and there purchased two of them. Once home I used my band saw to cut two sections off the PVC pipe one section measuring 5 \u00be inches and the other 6 \u00be inches.<\/p>\n

\"Cutting<\/a>
Cutting PVE pipe with my bandsaw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To be honest I did not measure either one I just placed them on the band saw and cut them. I then glued and assembled my hopefully bear\/animal proof food containers. Once assembled the completed food containers measurements came out to be 7 \u00bd inches on one and 8 \u00be inches on the other.<\/p>\n

\"Finished<\/a>
Finished containers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now before I start to receive comments I am fully aware that my food containers do not meet the National Parks Services requirements for \u201capproved bear proof food containers\u201d <\/span>in the National Parks or other locations, which require their usage. My intention in building bear\/animal resistant food containers was not so much to keep bears from being able to open them and eat the contents as is was to store Finley\u2019s dog food in a safe, waterproof container when we take him canoe camping. My intention was also to build a container that Finley could not open, for when it comes to food; Finley is much more of a threat of breaking into a bear proof food container and eating its contents then the most ravenous bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DIY Project By Colin Mullen Last season we spent a few days kayak and canoe camping on Adirondack\u2019s, Middle Saranac Lake with a few friends. Dara and I went by canoe since we were taking our cocker spaniel puppy Finley with us. After last season\u2019s camping trip, I decided I would make some bear resistant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}