recycling wizzes?

Recently I made a trellis using an old deer stand ladder we found in the woods. Used old fence posts rescued from a ditch to set it up on. I'm planting my birdhouse gourds under it.

Recently found an old house site in the woods and have salvaged a lot of handmade bricks. They're broken (rather fragile) but I was able to piece them together to make a very nice patio area on each side of my potting shed steps. Those steps used to be at the back door of my parents' home.

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Hmm well I recycle steel entry doors into sheds, chicken houses and the like.
recently I recycled a 62 ford pickup into 55 chickens and an old dodge dart into a Gleaner combine. Im in the process to recycling a 12x60 mobile home into some cash, and some old 1/2 gas pipe into a pony cart.
If I win the bid I'll recycle the combine into a swather and snow plow (bidding on a 10ft snow blade from the state auction) also have plans to mount a tank and spayer boom on it .

The grape abor is rather large. As you can see the splines (21 ft lengths of 1 1/2 pipe) are in the shape of a hexagon. The main center upright pipe is 6 inch diameter and the outer verticals are 1 1/2 pipe. None of the horizontal pipes are bolted or welded. The horizontal pipes are pinned into holes in the main center pipe. I can dismantle the arbor without a wrench. I have high tensile fence wire "laced and tensioned" from post to post in a manner to form a network of wires that permit the vines to lay on them. I raise a variety of muscadines known as scuppernongs. One every other vertical perimeter post I planted a vine from Isons nursery. These vines are patented and cannot be propagated legally. Then I used a nylon cord staked to the ground and tied to the top to train the vine to grow vertically. The arbor is about 6 1/2 feet tall but not tall enough for me to drive my mover with a roll bar under the arbor (that is why there is such tall grass under there now). This is one of my my rewarding projects as the fruit is delicious, the vines bear each year and have almot no insect problems. There are 3 varieties and they bear over a lengthy period.

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If they can do it,
you know you can!

Thanks to everyone--thanks To Tamilee, Blue8ewe, Spinner, Tricky Grama, Ozark-Dew, Shepherd and Chicken Lady and anyone else I missed for the Nice Comments. I Love Building from junk/trash/recycled things. I can have a $1000 in my pocket and I will look for "Things" to use to build a project that might take 3 hours and I could have bought it for a few bucks---But Making it gives me a "High"(I don't drink or do drugs) That feels great. I have taken scrape metal and made rabbit feeders just like the ones you buy for a few dollars---It Was Worth it to me. As you can tell---I have a metal Brake to bend this metal with---I have made Soooooooo Many things using a Metal Break. I Told My GF If I owned a Torch and a Welder--I Would be dangerous---Because I would be cutting and welding up some kind of project all the time-------I Think I will go ahead and buy one--It would be so Much Fun---LOL----Just thinking about owing one gives me a Feeling---Probably like a Drunk thinking about getting another bottle to drink--LOL. Some Women Drool thinking about a new dress or new shoes---I drool thinking about a new Tool that I can use to build More "Things". Thanks Again--Everyone. Randy

pics? pics are really a good thing. if you need help, i use photobucket.com.

thanx
jesse

hi randy,
my hub says the same thing to me. the famous "we could have bought that and have taken alot less time" it's the making that is fun.

go buy yourself the welder, i'm looking forward to see what comes out of it.

by the way, not all women go for the dresses. me i get all fluttery in Home Depot. never leave me alone in there with a credit card.

thanx again
jesse

I bought what was sold as a lot for about 30 cents on a dollar the treated materials in this rig I built for treating cattle for insects. The roofing materials were from an old shed that was mine for dismantling. The bolts had a previous life in a highway structure. The rough lumber was cut from the farm. The pickup in the background was bought, at 13,000 miles, totaled from an insurance company many years ago. It now has 144,000 and has been a reliable workhorse since I rebuilt it.

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you know you can!

ok but the chicken house is being repainted and window replaced .
junked out the old ford that had been flooded twice took the money and bought these

partridge Cochins,blue cochin, araucanas, partridge rocks, barred rocks, and black australorps 55 in total plus had money for feed and supplies left over.
recxycled the hood off the old truck into a bale mover/ firewood sled (its a redneck thing


some old trailor house tounges made a nice snow plow and drag


heres the old chicken house floor and walls are all made of steel doors skids are some old bridge timbers fished out of the creek

an shed for our mini also made from old doors of course Im down to a mere 215 doors left but should still manage a nice sized barn and a couple more storage sheds out of them the price was right just had the trash man dump the dumpster full here.

Now for some real recycling
I took some scraps of pine wood and made charcoal, that along with some well nitrated dirt from the chicken pen and some really smelly work managed to construct this.

which isnt very impressive until its fired when it becomes this

can ya guess where my screen name comes from

scrap iron, brass rod, plywood scraps, an old chair and worn out velvet curtain, along with 4 old bike tires made this little carriage for daddies princess's

Once the pony cart is finished I'll post pics
Fireman my torch and welder are worth their weight in gold the torches are mounted on the back of the golf cart some I can move to where I need them easily .

Agmantoo - Nice cattle feeder with the insect rolls you built! What did you use for a repellant?

I'm still wondering if you've ever learned how to start new grape vines (from non-patented vines, of course) successfully.

I'm a woman and believe me, I don't drool over clothing or shoes - but watch out when it comes to things for the kitchen, cooking, baking, canning, etc. LOL!

MY dreams are to have an outdoor canning kitchen, a root cellar, a cistern for the house and also the barn, a (homemade) greenhouse, and to set the house up with windpower and solar power. I have a lot of good ideas, just not the ability to build them myself!

Thanks to a good friend/neighbor who recently moved out of state, I inherited his collection of windows to build a homemade greenhouse. I just HATE losing good neighbors!

I'm glad to see there are still folks out there with American ingenuity. My folks could fashion something useful out of almost anything....it wasn't alway pretty, but still beat forking out money for something fancy.

Shepherd
I use permethrin mixed with diesel fuel and chain saw bar oil to saturate the rub.
I can root cuttings from the vines but not with a lot of success. I take the cuttings and go to the small stream on the farm and find a sand bar that is damp but not overly wet. I place the cuttings in the sand and let nautre take its course. In a drought year the sand bar will dry out too much and the rootings will die. In the ideal year, maybe 1/2 of the cuttings will put out shoots and survive. I do not transplant the survivors until they have roots that are a couple of inches long. I find it easier and I am able to extend the varieties by buying what few new vines I need from Ison's nursery in GA. They are good people to do business with and they have good stock. I usually find someone(s) wanting a few vines and we "share" an order.

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you know you can!

Oh I love these ideas! The round bale mover is brilliant.

Well I am collecting barn wood, I am removing the nails as I go along, storing it in a dry spot and I am hoping to eventually make it into flooring for a house addition. What I plan to do (when the addition comes) is to take some of the existing wood floor and swap it out with the wide plank barn wood so that some rooms in the addition have original flooring and some have reclaimed flooring. (our plan is to double the size of the house) We figure it will be worth it to buy a decent, second hand planer to plane the barn wood. We are currently looking for one! (but have plenty of time)

When a house is torn down, a building is remodeled I snoop around and see what is salvageable. I have most all of the doors and a lot of the interior trim we will need for the addition already!

We took a chimney down (that was falling down) from our 1838 saw mill. The bricks are hard brick, not soft brick. We had a problem with the sidewalk sinking, whenever it would rain, melt, whatever we would have a puddle on the sidewalk for guests/children to walk through!

I took 5.49 worth of quick-krete; mixed it 1/3-2/3 with sand(we already had) and did a beautiful brick sidewalk with re claimed brick. Right atop the concrete sidewalk. It is absolutely beautiful! My husband jokes if we ever need to leave and start our lives over, that I can get work as a brick-layer! (all 125 lbs of me!)

I do things like buy off season cloth table cloths on clearance and turn them into simple window curtains! Sew (or quick-bond iron) a pocket and VOILA! I did one window for $2.60 in 10 min. (two burgandy table cloths on clearance at k-mart) I get so many complements on that window in particular!

Stock tanks with holes or rusted out bottoms work great for feeding small bales.

My latest hobby is making live willow structures. So far I have done two kids playhouses, and a section of fence. I hope to do a lot more and expand my skills to make super cool things with willow!

I would love to learn to make traditional straw thatch; and to make straw bale structures (outbuildings in particular)

clear plastic bakery containers are great for starting seeds

small-non chain grocery stores will generally give you over ripe produce and out of date bakery goods for animal feed. So will small roadside produce stands! After a day of sitting out there man-ning it, they don't want to cart back the almost rotten stuff!

And as charming as it is; recycled wizz is great for roses. (not directly on , but around the plant) It is also great (if coming from a meat eating man for example) to "mark" the perimiter of your property.

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Melissa

One additional thing I would like to do. I have been looking for some time for an affordable small vacuum source for a portable milker set up (milkers have pulsators)

Any suggestions?

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savinggrace
Are you aware that a vacuum pump is nothing more than an air compressor connected in reverse? Locate a piston type air compressor and connect the inlet of the air compressor to the tank than you will use for the vacuum reservoir.

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Agmantoo
If they can do it,
you know you can!

two check valves and any old lawn mower engine belt driven from an electric motor will make a vacume pump or air compressor .
for best result remove the cam so the engines valve remain closed tap the spark plug hole for a 3/8 pipe thread install a nipple and T then install your check valves in the T one side suction the other pressure . the pulses can be changed by changing the RPM.
An even easier source is to get a a spark plug air pump and turn the checkvalve around. when you need vacuum simply remove a spark plug from your car or truck engine replacing the plug with the pump adapter and start the vehical .
you may still be able to find these at some farm supply dealers, at one time they were pretty common
Just a suggestion

why is this site so wide today? i'm still learning, which is great. i love the sled, i bought one at walmart a few years ago, and it is getting thin. (plastic). they don't have them anymore, i've been panicing if it breaks. i use it all year, soooo much better than wheels. you gave me the answer, thanks.
jesse

i loave the doors. i have 2, which i used for my coop. (pics later). i hinged them on top and it swings open, so the coop is shaded when open, like an awning. all four sides are open in the summer.

where did u get all those doors?
jesse

we have a door factory in town I noticed that they were loading a dumpster with dented doors so I caught the trash truck driver and had him dump them at my place it worked good for both of us saved him driving 20 miles and I got a load of doors (well actually three loads Ive traded off over 300 doors for other things. I also collect old sliding glass doors when ever I can find them so far I have 5 pairs need 5 more pairs for the green house.
Theres a hinged door laying sideways across the back of the chicken house that can be opened to make clean out easy.

i never get that kind of luck.
jesse

It helps to know nearly everyone in town (not an easy task with nearly 20,000)
Im a contractor by trade though some say I should be a salesman. last week a lumber company was providing a free lunch while there one of my crew accused me of BSing with everyone the next day I had 8 new contracts worth nearly $90,000 should keep us busy for a couple months.
Think positive We often make our own luck after all it never hurts to ask all they can say is no . Some of you looking for fencing might try asking the local fencing company about use chainlink it often goes right into the dumpster