Wow, that's high. I'd rent a high lift from United Rentals... lol. ;-) Well,
I don't know how you'd get one up there. Personally, when I have my own
house, I'll use my backhoe to get up as high as the loader end will go.



Blake Iverson
WA








>From: "Kelly Cassidy" <lostriver at completebbs.com>
>Reply-To: lostriver at completebbs.com
>To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>, "inlandbirders"
><inland-nw-birders at uidaho.edu>
>Subject: Nest box installation
>Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:34:53 -0800
>
>I'm working on having a good selection of nest boxes available for spring
>house-hunting. Building the nest boxes is the easy part. Getting them high
>enough in a tree to attract a variety of birds is a real challenge. We have
>put up a Barn Owl-sized and a Screech-Owl-sized box. (By "we", I mean my
>long-suffering husband George has risked life and limb on an extension
>ladder while I stood on the bottom step and offered useless advice). The
>big
>Barn Owl box is at about 12 ft high and the Screech-Owl box is at 15 ft.
>I'd
>like to get a few boxes at least 20 ft up; 30 ft if I can figure out how to
>do it.
>
>Any tips on hanging a box, especially a large box, up high? I put a hook in
>the top, which is useful for attaching a rope and pulleying the box up.
>There's still that sticky problem of climbing a ladder with a drill and a
>cordless screwdriver and working on a bulky object from a precarious
>platform. It's especially hard to attach the top of the box. I fantasize
>about a system of hooked feet, remote controlled from the ground, that I
>would use to maneuver the box into place, then a set of screws driven by
>miniature jet packs that I could also set off by remote control. Sadly, I
>lack NASA's budget and access to its engineers. Does anyone have any tips
>about getting a nest box high and firmly attached? (I am seriously thinking
>of getting about 10 boxes built and then hiring an arborist to install them
>all in a day if it's not too expensive.)
>
>Kelly Cassidy
>Pullman
>

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