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["Pat Armstrong" <rancher@carolina.rr.com>]

THIS sounds like a good idea.  Nice project for the winter...


P
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 10:15 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Red bead


>    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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