"Chris" ] wrote in message news
I would like to make a fruit cage - and wonder if anyone can provide a
link for design and construction?
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Chris

Quite easy to design/make your own. We made 3 big ones here much better and cheaper than commercial offerings. We
designed on a 10 ft square grid with an upright at each 10ft point so you can add squares to fit your space. For the
sides we made wooden frames 10ft x height(to suit your stature and the covering material) we covered ours with 6ft wire
netting of the right mesh size to keep out whatever you need to keep out. Frames have a 6in wide gravel board at the
bottom - the rest is roofing laths reinforced with triangles of thin plywood at the top corners. Frames tied to the
uprights with cable ties so they can be taken out to get machines in etc. Top is normal fruit net stuff from Knowle Nets
of Bridport. The tubing is standard 3/4nb galv water pipe joined with 'KeeKlamps' See LBS catalogue or try
builders/plumbers merchants. Those clamps can be used to make door openings/doors as well. The uprights are all equal
lengths and are dropped into 2ft lengths of 1.5" tube hammered into the ground. Those 'foundation' tubes have a series
of 3 holes drilled a few inches from the top with a stainless bolt through one of them to stop the uprights going to the
bottom - 3 holes allows a certain amount of adjustment to level everything. The wire netting sides are more durable than
the usual fruitcage stuff and you can yank weeds out of them without tearing the netting. In our case most of the cages
were to keep pheasants off veg so we didn't need small mesh - we adapted a part with smaller mesh and greater height to
protect soft fruit and dwarf cherries.
Hope there's something you can use in that.

Rod