Wind Hooters for your Yard

Its wintertime and the wind is blowing. Make these "Wind Hooters" instead of wind chimes to add errie sounds to your yard. You can turn them off at night by turning the slots away from the wind (if they bother your neighbors).

Step 1 Cut the slot

Peel off the label and cut a slot lengthwise down the bottle about 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide and about 5 inches long. You can use a 2 liter soda bottle or even smaller bottles for the windhooter.

Comments

[Orchid-Black]

Our house gets this sound with very little wind, all on its own! It was strange when we first moved in, but now I rather like it.

[Bubbler]

A good tip for cutting these bottles or aluminium cans, is to fill them with water and freeze them solid. Once frozen, your scalpel can cut exact shapes into the plastic and ice easily.

[Stevie89]

love that tip

[Bubbler]

It is a good tip as it makes cutting a whole lot safer and surer.

[spylock]

Sounds errie,my window does it when we get a noreaster,no matter how warm I am the noise will still give me a chill.

[treazured]

I love it! Simple and fast, this will be a great addition to my yearly yard haunt to add spooky sounds in the graveyard. I can put them inside one of the mausoleums with a fan to blow across them and make spooky sounds. Thanks much!

[JerryMopar]

This is so easy, I will have to try this, thanks for posting!

[baudeagle]

Why not add a swivel to your cap and then place a tail at a 90 degree angle to the slot (like a windmill). That way when the wind blows the bottle will automatically orient itself in the winds and start howling.

[botronics]

That would work. You can cut up a second bottle for the vane and use sheet metal screws to attach them.

[headache2000]

Probably just my incompetence but I get no sound on steps 6 or 7. Guess I'll have to make one just to fin out what it does sound like. Thanks just right for a little winter project to keep our neighbor kids excited and learn a little science.

[botronics]

Here is a link to the Youtube help Center. Perhaps this may help.

[Kiteman]

What a great sound!

[mynameisjonas]

says the master musician!

[Kiteman]

LOL!

[botronics]

When I made "Sirens of Taos" with my windharp, I clamped a windhooter to the frame. The sounds added to the background and made it sound errie. You can hear it at the link.

[startfresh]

Thanks! Gonna make these tonite!!

[Rishnai]

Cool! My friends and I go through a lot of two-liters, so I've got enough bottles to experiment with. We've been having a heckuva wind here lately so it shouldn't be an issue, but for when thigs go back to sanity, any idea what kind of wind velocity you need to have them work?

[botronics]

Get enough bottles and you can build something like this at Burning Man called Siren's Song

[botronics]

That's a good question. Maybe 20 to 25 mph. Perhaps i should attach one to my car's bumper and note the speed. At least it would scare away the deer in the road.

[Rishnai]

And potentially scare off all the people, too...

[headache2000]

Ya and ghosts and goblins too

[AndyGadget]

How adding a swivel to the mounting bar and a vane so that the bottles are always kept at the optimum angle to the wind? I doubt whether doing this in-line like a weather vane would work due to increasing turbulence, so the vane would have to be at 90 degrees on a rod to keep the whole bar of bottles facing the wind.

[botronics]

You could swivel the mounting bar and use two bottles at one end with the slots perpendicular to the bar. Attach the caps so one bottle is up and the other is upside down. The bottles form the vane. As the wind blows it will line up perfectly. Or place them fixed in a circle with slots going different compass directions. The sound would change depending on the direction of the wind.

[Arbitror]

Awesome! But it sounds real eerie...

[wiley coyote]

Brilliant!

[limpach]

Reminds me of the game MYST

[fwjs28]

that is really cool.....

[LinuxH4x0r]

Cool!