Hanging wood slelves..?

[drewflo8]

I was just wondering if you can hang wooden shelves with a "hanging screw"? I haven't seen anybody do this but on a wire cage it sounds pretty convenient? Has anybody tried this? Here's a link for a type of the screw I'm talking about: http://www.lightrail3.com/products/Accessories/lightrail-5-0-light-hanging-screw/

 

[rem]

Are you talking about a wooden swing or a shelf?

If you are talking about a shelf, it doesn't look like those would be very sturdy as there really isn't anything to stabilize it to the cage.

 

[ChinnyMom]

i know with Rhino, he doesn't like shelves that move when he jumps on them (there's one on one cage door that wiggles slightly due to the door moving a tad), so i use the hanger bolt/washer/wing nut combo that many other members here use. i think with that screw i see the potential for the shelf coming loose when a chin jumps on it.

 

[drewflo8]

i didn't even think of that, thanks! guess it's better than finding it out with Simba falling or getting startled.

 

[Essentia]

I have used those (or something simlar) before. Back when I just had my one chin I didn't own a drill. I used the ones like you posted but had a pointy end so it could easily be screwed into the pine. I made long shelves what went from one side of the cage to the other and put two screws on the back of the shelf and one on each end. I used a pair of needle nose pliers to close the curved end on each of the screws once I had everything where I wanted it. If I needed to move the shelves I just used the needle nose pliers to open it back up. It was easy enough and the shelves didn't move much, if at all, once them screws were closed.

 

[drewflo8]

thanks for all the input! i'm just going to go with chinnymom's way of doing it to make sure he likes it and not go through an unnecessary process.