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Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: pinkpiggies! on September 23, 2013, 09:13:45 pm

Title: Pig arcs
Post by: pinkpiggies! on September 23, 2013, 09:13:45 pm
Does anyone have a pig arc for sale? Looking for second hand if possible.  I live near to Edinburgh.  Failing that who sells reasonably priced pig arcs that don't cost a fortune?!?!


Lisa x
Title: Re: Pig arcs
Post by: HappyHippy on September 24, 2013, 08:07:50 am
Plastic heating oil tanks are much more reasonably priced (and sturdier) than plastic pig arcs - cheaper too  ;)
They also have the advantage of being easy to roll into a new position. Just cut a door in the front and drill some ventilation holes in the back and you're sorted  :thumbsup:

Here's a link to the kind of thing I mean
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/titan-LP1200-TT-plastic-oil-tank-MK22DD-/121181877649?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Hearing_Cooling_Air&hash=item1c3700b591 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/titan-LP1200-TT-plastic-oil-tank-MK22DD-/121181877649?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Hearing_Cooling_Air&hash=item1c3700b591) obviously this is a brand new one, but you can usually pick them up second hand.
HTH
Title: Re: Pig arcs
Post by: hughesy on September 24, 2013, 04:44:27 pm
And only £437.81. A bargain.
Title: Re: Pig arcs
Post by: HappyHippy on September 24, 2013, 04:55:47 pm
Quote from: HappyHippy on September 24, 2013, 08:07:50 am
obviously this is a brand new one, but you can usually pick them up second hand.
I couldn't find a link to any of the £30 second hand ones ;) ;D
Title: Re: Pig arcs
Post by: ZacB on September 24, 2013, 05:03:05 pm
Could always make your own. I do have some plans from a previous Taser for triangular arc's made from ply. Ours now needs some work for the next occupants but it has lasted for the last 3 pairs of piggies  ;D
 
If wanted pm me your e-mail and I'll send through
Title: Re: Pig arcs
Post by: goosepimple on October 07, 2013, 08:46:35 pm
or get a couple of sheets of wrinkly tin you could bend into an arc shape  if you make a square frame from timber and fill in the ends, alternatively we had a couple of pigs that lived in a normal shed and were quite happy.
Title: Re: Pig arcs
Post by: Daisys Mum on October 07, 2013, 09:14:32 pm
Glendale Engineering at Wooler do curved sheets of corrugated tin at about £35 a sheet, we built our last one ourselves and it didnt cost a lot, we used our original as a template.
Title: Re: Pig arcs
Post by: Tudful Tamworths on October 07, 2013, 10:16:05 pm
If you can borrow a copy of my Haynes Pig Manual, there's a step-by-step guide with pictures and measurements in there. My old man based the design on one of the ones we'd bought and we built it in half a day for about £80.
Title: Re: Pig arcs
Post by: pinkpiggies! on October 09, 2013, 10:23:27 pm
Thanks for all your replies.  Going to try the corrugated iron bendy stuff and see how we go.  Will keep searching e bay for oil tanks, just haven't found any nice cheap ones!!!
Title: Re: Pig arcs
Post by: Bodger on October 10, 2013, 09:12:59 am
Quote from: goosepimple on October 07, 2013, 08:46:35 pm
or get a couple of sheets of wrinkly tin you could bend into an arc shape  if you make a square frame from timber and fill in the ends, alternatively we had a couple of pigs that lived in a normal shed and were quite happy.

Buy the already 'bent' ones. Bending the flat sheets to the shape you want is nigh on impossible. :pig: