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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Red bead
  • Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:15:35 -0500

Garlands of red beads? Who would that fool? Certainly not birds. Your berry beads need to be a close facsimile or the real thing; birds are not stupid!

How to hang the beads??? I started out by buying screw hooks, then holding the hook with a pliers - heating the screw end with a blow torch and melting in into the hole of the bead. That's quick but the wind can blow them off a branch.
Next I used a small diameter, dead soft aluminum wire. Making a proper hook and attaching it to the bead can be time-consuming but I did it for the cherry trees because I leave the beads on the branches all year and the aluminum is soft enough that it expands with the branches as they increase their diameter.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)




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