Do-it-yourself mole spinner from a plastic bottle. Windmill made of plastic bottles Windmill made of plastic

Wildlife lovers who do not want to destroy ecosystems also suffer from underground diggers -. But what if you do not want to kill the animal, but there is no time to evict the "guest" for the 101st kilometer? You can try to scare away moles from your site instead. easy to purchase at the store, but many summer residents prefer to make them with their own hands.

Homemade repellers

From what you can make a mole repeller with your own hands:

plastic bottles;
cans;
electric alarm clocks;
radio and speakers.

The first three types of repellers do not require any special knowledge or skills. From plastic bottles, the maximum number of different repellers was invented.

Plastic bottle options

The simplest version of a homemade repeller is a bottle worn on a pin. Suitable for empty beer cans. The pin must be stuck into the ground so that sound and vibration are transmitted to the mole passages.

On a note!
Iron transmits sound better than wood.

Most difficult option- a windmill from moles. To make it, you need a one and a half liter bottle of beer.

The bottle must be a "classic" beer form. That is, with a narrow elongated neck.

In addition to the bottle, you need good scissors, a marker, a self-tapping screw with a thread that does not reach the cap, a nail, an awl and a windmill stick. With the maximum complexity of creating such a mole repeller from plastic bottle visual schemes and drawings do not exist. There is only a very clear video.

The bottom is cut off from the bottle along the horizontal line that is on all plastic bottles.
The cut bottom is turned upside down. The bottom has the shape of a five-pointed star. Mark the areas to be cut out with a marker: from the border of the central circle strictly in the middle of the “beam” and from the middle of the central circle along the hollow between the “beams”. This part needs to be cut off. It turns out that half of the "beam" is cut out.
The operation is repeated on all "rays". The propeller is ready. It remains only to punch a hole strictly in the center of the circle. The hole should be with perfectly even edges and a diameter larger than the provided self-tapping screw.
Insert a self-tapping screw into the resulting propeller with the head “inside” and screw it in the center of the bottle cap until the thread ends. To facilitate the task of screwing in the hat, you first need to make a small hole. WITH inside caps self-tapping screw for reliability can be fixed with a nut.
At the bottom of the neck of the bottle, strictly along the center line, make two holes for the nail. The holes must be strictly opposite each other.
Take an almost finished windmill and fix it on a wooden pole. Stick the pole into the ground in the garden.

In the wind, the propeller makes a rather nasty crack, which moles are afraid of. The advantage of a windmill is that it will work in any direction of the wind. In fact, this is an ordinary weather vane.

In the summer, almost every day we buy a bottle of water. From such a simple waste material, you can make great fun for a child or a real one. Windmills or plastic bottles are made different ways. It will not take much time, and the child will be really interested in taking part in the process and playing.

Hanging turntables from bottles

For work we need:

clean two-liter bottle;
colored electrical tape;
scissors;
centimeter;
stationery knife;
a ball with a swivel bearing (these are often used for fishing).

Now consider a simple step by step instructions.

We pre-wash the bottle thoroughly and remove all stickers.
Approximately in the middle we glue the workpiece with colored tape. With it, you can hide the remnants of glue from the wrapper. It is necessary to stick the tape only on the straight part of the bottle.
Using a centimeter, mark equal segments and draw vertical lines. Segments about one and a half centimeters wide.

Then, with a clerical knife, gently begin to move from top to bottom. Try to make cuts exactly along the lines, otherwise you will not get the expected result at the end.

The distance from the bottom must be at least 2 cm.
Now we press the blank for the turntable from plastic bottles a little. Gently squeeze the "rays".
Now these "rays" need to be given the correct shape so that the wind can turn the spinner from a plastic bottle. To do this, each "ray" is bent at an angle of 45 ° at the highest point.
We do this in the lowest part, but in a different direction.

Now it remains to decorate our windmills from plastic bottles with pieces of electrical tape.

In order to hang the turntable, we make a hole in the lid and insert the mount there. We pass a loop from a piece of wire.
The spinner is ready!

How to quickly make a spinner out of a bottle?

A more traditional version on a mount or stick in the form of a screw is even easier to make. For this you will need:

large transparent bottle;
marker and stationery knife;
dye.

Colorful pinwheel from a plastic bottle

A more complex option involves the use of several plastic bottles at once. Such mills are often installed on

garden plots. For work you need to prepare:
two plastic bottles;
four caps;
three large beads;
pliers, scissors, wire.

Consider step by step wizard class, how you can make colorful turntables from plastic bottles.

We cut the bottle in half with a clerical or painting knife.
Now we cut the blades of the windmill with scissors.
We bend the blades at an angle of 45 ° in the middle of the length or at the base.

This is what our workpiece looks like at this stage.

Gently smooth out the blades.

We make holes in the middle of the wings and lid.

This project is a very simple vertical axis wind turbine made from scrap parts. It is very easy to assemble a wind turbine with your own hands, with almost no tools used. Drilling a few holes is much easier.

And, most importantly, this way you will give a second life to several empty plastic bottles, which are full of lying around.

Step 1: Main Idea

From Wikipedia: A fuelless vertical axis generator is a type of wind turbine with the main rotor drive shaft mounted in the crosswind direction (not necessarily vertical), with the main components mounted at the base of the turbine.

In such a turbine, the blades rotate around a central vertical shaft. The blades are often bowl-shaped, the recesses of the blades being hit in turn by the wind, which causes the blades to rotate and rotate the central shaft.

In our wind turbine, the blades are made from three empty plastic lemonade bottles cut in half and placed on a cheap plastic tray. The tray is fixed on a long bolt (axle), on which bearings from a skateboard are fixed with nuts, for easy rotation. The bolt is fixed to the base.

The video shows how our plastic bottle windmill works.

The photo shows the basic design of the turbine axle. From right to left (top): plastic spacers (they were needed due to the fact that the bolt shaft under the head is even, about 5 mm without thread). Then a plastic tray (in the photo it was replaced by a piece of wooden plank), fixed with a nut between two middle washers. Below, two bearings are fixed from the outside with nuts, another nut separates them, this increases the mounting height and increases stability.

Step 2: Required Details

The photo shows all the components of the turbine:

Plastic tray, diameter 30-35 cm
8mm bolt, 125mm long
4 8mm nuts (or more if you want to lock them)
2 medium washers with 8mm hole
2 skateboard bearings with an 8mm bore (I used bearings with an outer diameter of 22mm and a height of about 7mm)

Of course, the turbine will need to be mounted on some kind of base, then I will show which base I made.

Step 3: Making the Blades

Any three two-liter plastic bottles of lemonade will do. Cut them in half as shown in the first picture. I cut band saw, it was loud, dirty and, in places, dangerous, but fast. This can be done with scissors, a sharp utility knife, or a hand saw.

Bottle caps are useful for securing bottles to the tray. They need to make holes for rainwater to drain (second picture).

Step 4: Drill holes in the tray

It is better to take a tray made of flexible plastic that will not crack during drilling or bending.

Three holes are to be drilled, equally spaced, near the edge of the tray, just large enough to allow the threads on the neck of the bottle to pass through. This means that the holes are located at an angle of 120° relative to each other. The first photo shows the measurement of angles of 120 °, the second - marking the holes with an awl.

Hole diameter must be between 26 and 29 mm. The optimal size is 26 mm, but if there is more, then it will also work. I drilled the holes with a 29mm ring bit. On last photo drilling holes shown. I used the remaining plastic discs as spacers for the turbine axle.

In the center of the tray you need to make an 8mm hole for the axle (bolt).

Step 5: Assembly

Now we just need to put all the details together.

First, we put a washer on the bolt and the tray with the bottom side to the head (first photo), the tray will be located upside down so that rainwater does not accumulate in it. On the other hand, we fix the tray with another washer and nut.
Then we put bearings and nuts on the axle, in the same order as in the second photo. The distance between the tray and the bearings depends on the height of the tray rim. When the turbine is spinning, it should not touch the base on which it is installed.

Now we fix the bottles on the tray. They just need to be screwed on, as shown in the third and fourth photos. The open "face" of the bottles should be turned perpendicular to the edge of the tray. all three bottles should be deployed in the same way relative to the center and edges of the tray (fifth photo). The direction in which the bottles will be deployed will determine whether they will spin clockwise or counterclockwise. The turbine in the fifth photo will spin clockwise.

If the holes in the tray are larger than 26mm, you can remove the white fixing ring on the neck and put it back in place, but upside down. The diameter of the base of the ring is wider than the diameter of the top, this will give a tighter fit in the hole.

Step 6: Base

The main part of the turbine is assembled, it remains to make a base for its fastening.

The base type is determined by the location where you want to install the turbine. Maybe you want to mount it on a fence or on a pole, or just in an open space.

I decided to install my turbine on a fence post, so I'll show you what kind of base you need to make to mount it on this post. You can easily customize it to your liking.

As you can see in the first photo, the T-base is made from 18mm board. The leg of the base is fixed to the support with cable ties, stretched through four holes drilled in the board. The bearings on the turbine shaft are tightly seated in a 22mm hole drilled in the base crossbar (second photo).

The last photo shows a "clamp" for bearings. I drilled a 22mm hole with a drill bit. I then cut a 2mm wide slot from the edge of the crossbar, going straight through the center of the 22mm hole and extending 80mm into the board. This slot helps to insert the bearings into the hole without force and then tighten the edges of the hole with a screw, as shown in the last photo, so that the bearings are clamped. The bolt and nut seem to me to be a more secure fastener than the screw, and I will replace it later.

Now the turbine is fully assembled, but I still have an option to improve it, you might be interested.

Step 7: Building Resilience

Although lemonade bottles themselves are quite resistant to wind pressure, there is one option to increase their resistance. This can be done by fixing the centers of the bottoms on a common frame.

I assembled this frame from what I had: a piece of brush handle, a few bamboo skewers and small collars.

I drilled three 4mm holes in a piece of handle at equal distances from each other (120° between them), inserted bamboo skewers into them and filled them with glue (second photo). Then I drilled 3mm holes in the bottoms of the bottles, under the collars, and fixed the skewers on the bottoms with the help of collars and glue (photos three and four). Naturally, the bamboo skewers were cut to the correct length.

Now the wind turbine is ready to use! If you want to use the power of the wind, you can attach the device to the threads on the axle (note: the turbine has only experienced moderate winds so far, and I don't know what gusts it can handle).

Why do you need a windmill in your area? Naturally, this is not a mechanical wind generator that allows you to turn wind energy into mechanical energy.

Our goal is to create a beautiful "accessory" for decorating a summer cottage, the main task of which is to turn wind energy into "spiritual" energy.

If you want to make a pool out of a tire on suburban area, see step-by-step instructions for making.

materials

In material terms, the process of creating a windmill is not very expensive.

To assemble the windmill we need:

support - wire;
2 plastic bottles with a flat bottom;
4 caps;
3 large beads;
improvised means: stationery or painting knife, hammer, awl, wire, glue, paint;
perseverance and attention;

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Manufacturing instructions

The assembly process is not difficult. So let's get started.

We cut the bottle with a knife into two parts

Depending on what size you want to build a windmill, the volume of bottles that will be needed during the manufacturing process will depend. Our mill will small sizes, for this we take two plastic bottles with a flat bottom of 2 liters each.

We take a clerical or painting knife and cut the bottles. The closer to the neck you cut, the larger the blades of your future mill will turn out. But do not get carried away, because if you cut too close (almost close), then the blades will turn out to be useless.

So, you should be left with parts of bottles with a flat bottom. We don't need other parts.

The remaining parts should be cylindrical. In a circle, we begin to cut strips with scissors, and do not cut to the base. When choosing the width of the strip, you need to decide how many blades you want the windmill to have.
We do the same with the remaining two parts of the bottles.

After we cut them, we bend each strip at the base at an angle of 45 degrees. In the end, you should get a semblance of the sun with rays.

It is best to paint the blades from a spray can, so they can be made multi-colored

After we proceed to finishing work. Wing blanks and caps can be painted either with a spray can or with paint, in any case, it will take time for everything to dry before continuing to work.

Glue the lid to the middle of the wings on each side.

We put a bead on a wire

And now the final part of the work. To do this, we need four corks, two lid blanks and three beads.

The sequence of actions is as follows: we push the wire through the bead (be sure to check if the wire passes freely), then bend the tip of the wire so that the bead cannot fly off.

The mole has the appearance of a cute harmless animal, but it can cause destructive harm to a planted land. The mole lives underground and, breaking through passages, harms the root system of plants.

Ways to deal with moles are as follows:

Ultrasonic repellers;
They feed on food;
The holes of the mole's exit fall asleep.

Some gardeners use homemade traps. About, how to make a mole repeller most and which of them are more effective, is described in this article.

Types of scare devices

All repellers, even home-made ones, are divided into 4 types:

Mechanical. They are effective in that their parts, when moving, form noise and vibration that scare away the animal;
Biological - capsules, which include aromatic oils. Their smell is not tolerated by pests. This group also includes plants whose smell is not tolerated by moles;
Electronic mole repellers. They are usually vibrating, powered by electricity or batteries;
Ultrasonic. Repel small pests by emitting frequency sound waves. When it hits the ground, such sounds send a signal of danger to the animal's brain.

Although the modern market offers a huge number of mole repellent devices to choose from, home-made devices are also not a small success. If you use home-made repellers in a comprehensive manner in the fight against a pest, then the land can be completely cleared of annoying animals.

Watch the video! Do-it-yourself mole repeller

How to make a mole repeller from a plastic bottle

A plastic bottle is an indispensable universal item used to create various devices in the garden area. From it you can make an excellent tool against moles, the so-called windmill.

Method number 1

To make a windmill from a plastic bottle necessary:

large scissors;
1.5 l plastic container;
permanent marker;
awl;
stationery knife;
self-tapping screw;
metal plates with a hole in the middle (washers);
strong stem.

The manufacturing process itself consists of the following steps:

Make a mark on the bottom of the plastic bottle with a permanent marker. We draw a strip just above the bottom along the bottom border;
We cut off the curly bottom of the bottle along the drawn strip with a clerical knife;
In order for the spinner to rotate clockwise, the bottom of the bottle should be correctly marked. First, draw a line with a marker, draw it from the center of the bottom of the bottle to the center of any of the convex irregularities. Next, draw a line that goes from the center of the bottom and ends in the concave part. And so we put markings all over the bottom.
With large sharp scissors, cut out unnecessary elements. The result is a device in the form of a propeller. Cut out the first element and then cut through one.
5 such parts should be removed;
In the resulting day in the center we pierce a hole heated on fire with an awl.
We put a washer on the prepared self-tapping screw and insert it from the inside of the propeller. After we put more washers on it in the amount of three pieces;
We take the remaining element from the bottle. We make a hole in the lid with a heated awl and screw in a self-tapping screw. Thus, the propeller is attached to the plastic bottle. The screw does not need to be screwed all the way in. The plates must rotate freely;
Attach turntable to the support.
Two holes are made on the neck and inserted into them small nail, which is then hammered into the stalk.

The principle of operation of such a windmill is simple, gusts of wind, falling into the propeller, begin to spin it, and the largest element turntables also rotates around the nail. At the same time, the washers form a noise, which scares away small pests.

Method number 2

This method requires fewer items to be used. You will need a stick, garden shears and a bottle:

We make wide incisions from top to bottom in the walls of a plastic bottle;
From these holes we make two more smaller ones perpendicular to the main one. One above, one below;
We bend the resulting elements to the sides, we should get the blades;
We put the resulting mechanism on a support after making a hole in the bottom of the bottle.

The wind rotates the blades, creating a noise that scares away the moles. Such devices are usually placed near the animal's burrow.

Advice! If you eventually manage to catch a mammal, it is worth remembering that it can bite painfully. To protect yourself from unpleasant surprises, you should wear thick gloves or mittens.

Method number 3

To build a structure to scare away moles, you will need elements from the second method, as well as a plate cut from the wide part of another bottle:

In a plastic bottle, we will make cuts 15 cm long;
From the additional part, it is necessary to cut the propeller blades of approximately the same length;
The blades must be stuck into the holes to make a propeller;
In the lid, you need to make several holes and insert metal rods into them. Then attach the device to the stick.

During rotation, rustling is formed, accompanied by vibration. Hearing his mammal gets scared and feels uncomfortable, so he moves to another habitat.

Method number 4

Sticks should be stuck along the perimeter of the land plot, placing several supports in one place. They must be put on empty plastic bottles or beer cans.

In gusts of wind, plastic or metal will beat against each other, creating noise that prevents the approach of a harmful mammal.

Method number 5

This so-called electronic mole repeller. It is made from hollow metal pipe. The scheme is this:

The pipe is dug into the ground and an inexpensive electronic beeping part from a battery-powered alarm clock is placed inside;
At the top, the pipe is covered with cloth so that the noise does not spread around the neighborhood, and with a cut-off bottle to protect the structure from rain.

The effectiveness of homemade devices

The mole is a blind animal. This makes his hearing and sense of smell impeccable. When constructing structures from simple elements, either ultrasonic mole repeller, or repellers that create noise and vibration.

Conclusion

It must be clearly remembered that moles live in families consisting of a pair of adults and several growing ones. Some families of moles unite. And the passages that they break through reach several meters in depth.

Moreover, each underground passage has several exits, which complicates the exact location of the family.

All of the above devices have been repeatedly tested by gardeners. And yes, they are inexpensive to make. Therefore, even when buying a modern device for combating harmful animals, do not be too lazy to make a couple of homemade ones.

Watch the video! Windmill from a plastic bottle