Suggetions please to replicate this set up

[WaterTight]

Want to create something similar to this at home to keep my cat in the garden (he got badly injured in a fight.) It looks like a pretty simple set up but not sure where I'd get similar materials to make something.

A friend is going to help me do it and he suggested just some plastic pipe over a metal pole would do the same thing. I'm sure it would but the beauty of this one seems to be it spins so easily that is adds to the deterrant. Watch the videos to see what I mean.

All suggestions welcome.

Thanks

Spinning Paddle Cat-Proof Fence System

 

[ShaunCorbs]

plastic waste pipe 11/2 dia min 2" better

guess shoving a bearing in each end and fixing to the fence somehow

 

[WaterTight]

Why we thinking 2" better? That's what I was thinking but wasn't sure why. I guess the bigger it gets the more force it requires to spin it. But it could be cut into smaller sections to counteract this.

 

[WaterTight]

You don't know of any industrial use of similar x shaped/profiled plastic lengths with the potential for fixing points on each end like the ones in the link do you? That way may be able to source ones very similar to the ones used.

I looked in b+q and the sell lots of L shaped plastic lengths but no x shaped. And not obvious how you'd make fixings to the ends to make them rotate anyway

 

[ShaunCorbs]

no sorry was thinking 2" for easy of finding should do the same

if you want to make something tho

square box and glue / fix the L shape on each face

 

[Burger]

Run some square line downspout over 1.25/1.5” wastepipe? Fix wastepipe in 1.5m sections with downspout over the top?

 

[Last Plumber]

Sorry, sense of humour, it's late!






Here's an idea that looks similar to what's been said.

That's neat and right up a Plumbers Street.

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[Last Plumber]

I can't delete the bottom machine gun, sorry, the forum is playing up again.

 

[Last Plumber]

@ShaunCorbs can you delete that bottom machine gun please?

 

[Last Plumber]

I hope the cat is OK by the way, is this the one that lost an eye the other day? or was that someone else's?