Locking Bar Eglu Classic

[woodhamd]

Does anyone else find that replacing the top of the Eglu is a two man operation. Unless you are tall enough the straddle the top to keep the Pin side from moving outwards?

 

Wouldn't it be a better idea if the base had a guiding slot to hold the pin side of the Eglu top firmly in place. This would stop the lateral movement, thus allowing the bar to glide in the slot without pushing it away.

[CannyCat]

Does anyone else find that replacing the top of the Eglu is a two man operation. Unless you are tall enough the straddle the top to keep the Pin side from moving outwards?

 

Wouldn't it be a better idea if the base had a guiding slot to hold the pin side of the Eglu top firmly in place. This would stop the lateral movement, thus allowing the bar to glide in the slot without pushing it away.

 

I dont find it a problem to be honest. I stand to the side of the eglu, and I hold the top of the lid, and one side. Then it just sits on the grey bit, and I can clip the lid over the black doodah from the side where I stand.

[The Dogmother]

I'm only 5'1" and I don't have too much problem - one of mine needs a bit more jiggling to get it into place than the other. I lift them the same way as Cannycat

[woodhamd]

It maybe a problem with our set up. As the ground has a slight slope to the key's side, and if we brush the bark away from the edge it may help.

[The Dogmother]

I see what you mean now.

 

Sometimes I get 'stuff' up against that side of the Eglu base, and it pushes the top of the Eglu outwards so that I can't get the pin in the hole. It just needs cleaning away regularly. Once my daughter sat on top of the Eglu top when I had taken it off ( ), this must've caused the sides to splay out a little as it was difficult to get it back on again - I just put the Eglu top on its side and leant on it to press the sides inwards.

[woodhamd]

That sounds worth a go!

 

I'll try it next time we give it a full clean. probably Thursday as it's just been done.

[Bradders]

A tent peg inserted into the ground to stop the bar moving whilst inserting the pin helps.

[Beauty-Box]

 

Hi, I don't have problems with mine either. You've got my avatar - Great minds think alike Heh!

[woodhamd]

You were first. I'll change it.

[Beauty-Box]

 

No it's fine, I think it's time I had a new one any way. Hope you find a way to make your eglu easier to assemble.

My avatar has been changed. Hope no-one else has already got the same one.

 

Love Rebecca xx

[Egluntyne]

Claret says:

 

I'm only 5'1" and I don't have too much problem - one of mine needs a bit more jiggling to get it into place than the other. I lift them the same way as Cannycat

 

Ditto word for word exept that I'm 5'2".

[woodhamd]

Bending the eglu didn't make a sigificant difference although it's a snugger fit. I'll try the tent peg trick this weekend.

[Charlottechicken]

I dont find it a problem to be honest. I stand to the side of the eglu, and I hold the top of the lid, and one side. Then it just sits on the grey bit, and I can clip the lid over the black doodah from the side where I stand.

 

Ditto for me as well.

 

My Eglu is raised up about 18 inches on a frame as well so I don't have to bend much whilst holding the top as I find it heavy.

[woodhamd]

I agree getting the top on is easy, but my problem is more about pushing in the black bar, and in not lining up with the slot the other side. Which then causes the end of the black bar to push outwards against the outer skin of the eglu, and making it a bit of a phaf.

[The Dogmother]

That's exactly what happened to mine at first - might be a bit of a mis-match. Get in touch with James about it. james@omlet.co.uk

[Gallina]

I've solved the problem by never taking my Eglu apart. I find I can clean it quite easily without doing so via the egg-port. I take the bars out that way. I guess I'm a slob, but so are the chickens and we get on very well.

[Karen & co.]

I've solved the problem by never taking my Eglu apart. I find I can clean it quite easily without doing so via the egg-port. I take the bars out that way. I guess I'm a slob, but so are the chickens and we get on very well.

 

 

I'm much the same although it gets dismantled when I move it round the garden just for ease,so gets a good wash at the same time

 

karen x

[woodhamd]

I'll email James with a link to the thread.

 

The tent peg works, but it is a tad industrial. Thanks for the suggestion.

[woodhamd]

I've hammered in a 1"x1.5" Foot long stake beside the eglu's key side. That seem to be working better as the tent pegs moved after a couple of cleans.

[Penny]

Yes, I have exactly that problem - I shove the black bar at one side, pop round the other side and find it has retreated again. So I have to shunt the bar in with my foot then bend over the Eglu very inelegantly with my bottom in the air and try and jam the Golden Pin in from that ungainly angle.

 

To be honest it's the only snag as everything else is so easy to dismantle / mantle and clean.