My husband and I love to look at scraps and put them together to make a ‘critter’ to live in our yard. We use old tools, machine parts, scraps of any kind. We attach the pieces or weld them together, then paint them with outdoor paint and figure out where they will ‘live’ in the yard.
Some live on either side of our 650 foot+ driveway. Some are attached to boulders that we dug up while building our house. Some decorate planters. Here is a sample –
SHOVEL BIRDS –
OTHER CRITTERS –
MISC –
We’ve had a lot of fun making these. We bring them into the shop and I refurbish them from time to time. Now liability issues are such at salvage yards and junkyards that they won’t let us in to hunt for treasures, so we make fewer things now.
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