PVC animals take a look heppnerguy

[Allen levine]

I mentioned I made a daschund dog out of pvc pipe

for Heppnerguy if in the future you cut some pvc here's a few I've made over the past 5 years 

the car was loaded because during pandemic when locked down I got lists of nurses in my area thru friends and relatives and delivered approx 100 flamingos with note thankyou for your service 

then there's the party flamingos 

seesaw flamingos

tucan

[Allen levine]

And I made a 10 foot giraffe with baby giraffe

and in the yard I have all the rejecte

i dont toss them I just touch them up and put them anywhere 

and this was the sample daschund I made still can't toss it even though it sits with trash for 2 years

can make any bird 

I've made penguins ducks woodpeckers etc

just never kept pics of all of them

[Allen levine]

I didn't make the wife her parents did

[Allen levine]

I taught 3 people how to make them because they kept taking the birds off my front step 

they'd ask can I have one more for this kid or my sister etc     Then I'd come home and 2 more were gone with a thankyou note

10 foot pipe used to be 18 dollars and I'd get 6 out of one pipe 

now Home Depot charges 30 for that same piece

I've given out so many no one asks anymore

i I have 3 or 4 sitting in storage for my daughter next spring to sell to raise money for student council at her school along with birdhouses that always sell

[Allen levine]

All ya need is a jigsaw and a heat gun 

inexpensive to make

[heppnerguy]

Wow....VERY INTERESTING INDEED. As I was looking through your photos I was wondering if you would have to heat the pipe in order to bet the bends for  your animals. Is this something that you just came up with yourself or did you see someone else making them and decide to give it a try. They all are very unique and fun pieces. Thank you so much for showing them to me. They are too fun indeed.

Dick

heppnerguy

[heppnerguy]

On 10/25/2025 at 6:15 AM, Allen levine said:

I didn't make the wife her parents did

It looks like your wife's parents also knew what they were doing, and no heat gun was used on her.

Dick

heppnerguy

[Allen levine]

sept of 2019,, we took a 2 month road trip down south, started in virginia, tennesse, drove along the mississippi river down mississippi, as we also enjoy casinos, tunica, vegas of the south, vicksburg, then into new orleans, then back to biloxi, alabama, florida, stayed in florida for maybe a week or so, then as we drove home, along the coast, we decided to head up the delmarva pennisula I believe its called, to go to ocean city maryland, and as we were on the road in maybe it was delaware or maryland down there, there was a huge barn with words fabric, and my wife is an avid quilter so we stopped. he had so much crap in that barn, and he had 2 pvc birds, and he tried so hard to sell them to me, but I had a small convertible and nowhere to put them. when we got home, I looked up pvc birds on the internet, and thats when I started.....and when the pandemic hit a few months later, I did nothing for a year except make birds for charity events, for friends, for relatives, and like I mentioned made over a 100 of them to give out to all the local nurses working during the pandemic....pta at our school gave me a list, but when I dropped one off at a nurse adminstators home, I dont have a clue how she found me I never gave a name, only a note that saide, hi, my name, and i wanted to thank them for their service,, but she found my house and left a note in my mailbox explaining alot of the nurses were jealous and I contacted her and she gave me a list, and then another hospital nurse came foward because they posted it on their face book page.....back then alot of companies and bars were buying lunch for the nurses, free drinks, etc.....my son has at least 20 on his property, and this summer I repainted around 6 of them and had to rebuuild the seesaw with pressure treated wood. 

so one of the guys I taught, owned a body shop for 40 years, and working the pipes came easy to him, he made beautiful birds, gave a ton out to his friends and neighbors.....he didnt care about cost like I did. giving away so many cost was a big concern to me.\

as far as bending, yes, a heat gun, got one cheap on amazon, it never failed, heat pipe, bend it, then Id dip it into a pail of water to cool it right off so the bend would stay. painting took the longest, one coat, let it dry, second coat, then tape up for second or third and sometimes even fourth color.

im proud to say my pvc birds are in at least 7 states i can remember

Edited October 26, 2025 by Allen levine

[Allen levine]

that blue bird sitting on the swing set with the guitar, he was a sample I made before I made a set called the bluebirds, a group of blue birds with instruments, a piano player, drummer, and 2 guitar players, not sure why my phone doesnt have a picture of it....they were destroyed in a hurricane in florida, not gonna mention my family member who forgot to secure them during a storm....maybe it was a tropical storm....doint recall now. he might have a photo

 

the momma duck with the baby ducks were a big hit, even had to send my hand drawn pattern to several members of another woodworking forum Im part of because they wanted to make them.

Edited October 26, 2025 by Allen levine