This is my homemade birdbath. It is mounted on a six inch schedule 40 metal pipe, then a tire rim. The bowl is a cap from the power plant where I use to work. It is around three inches thick and four feet in diameter, and weighs four hundred pounds. I had to use a cherry picker to put it on the pipe. Then the top is made from some metal pump parts with those parts weighing around a hundred pounds. It is around five feet tall. So this is my 600 pound birdbath. I also have a water float valve from a swamp cooler that keeps it full of water. And last I have a submersible pump that pumps five gallons of water every minute. I broke up the ice for this shot so the pump could pump the water that wasn't frozen. I'm slowly working on putting rocks around the base and up the pipe. You can also see the light dusting of snow we got on the mountains. It does get cold out here in the desert now and then.
