There are quite a few creative guys on here, let's see what you've repurposed. Absolutely love making something cool out of dogschit.

Pulled these two home-made driveway entryway wrought iron pieces out of the poison oak and hornets nests the other day and stitched them together into a heart for the wife for a backdrop to one of her garden benches. She hasn't seen it yet but she gunna love it.

Whadja build?

I ain’t got time

Most people work

Cool Roy, I need to get after the beer keg smoker.

Hell everything around this craphole is repurposed schidt. Lets start with the yard fence that are livestock panels I drove to Kansas to get!

I ain’t even gonna get into where some of the lumber around here came from.

Repurposed? Thats a word off the Finnish speakin’ spoon whittlers forum. Ergo, Bushcrafters!!!

That’s cool, need to build another BBQ pit. I said I was done, but I’m thinking about another. Maybe another engine. Built this one 30 yrs ago.

Thank you Huntsman22 for that phrase

I thought of you and hanco! LOL

Repurposed rocks into a table

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Welding art is for girly men

I enjoy repurposing junk into useful items. Guess many would call me a packrat. But, I have fixed many a problem with old steel items that I hoard. Neighbors call me the energizer bunny and I like fixing up things instead of taking them to the steel pile at the transfer station.
I can repair most mechanical problems. There are mechanical engineers today that don’t know what end of the screwdriver to use. Keeps me out of trouble. MTG

I tell old jokes,----over, and over.
I love people that can't remember jokes, they laugh at old jokes every time.

I get to scrap some cast iron irrigation pipe next week. Trying to figure out how I can use some 5" pipe LOL

Here's the third one. Going to use it for a trellis.

Nice work there, Roy.

I’ll have more time after Aug 31, done with working every weekend, maybe retire Dec31.

Didn't take much skill for this project but I've been wanting something to hang bird feeders from and a place for ear corn. I ran across this farm implement wheel that worked just right. You bench backdrops look great and I bet your wife does like them.

Entrance above the Tunnel of Love at Uncle Slumlord’s parking lot carnival.

T-111 ON POINT!

It just screams GAY for some reason.

i like it. i repurpose a lot of stuff, mostly made of wood. i have a pile of metal junk (literally) that i plan on making stuff out of but i have to work on my welding skills first. pretty rough.

Not enough warmth.......


So how bad did you screw up that forced you into this reprofession of love project?

Around here, all the white folks bury up wagon wheels at their driveway entrances


And all the darkies put big concrete lions and tigers at their entrances. lol

Who could forget the greatest repurpose of all time- garden gnome to elf on a shelf?

Go ahead and laugh, I'll be plowing tuna later while you're sitting home alone drinking PBR and listening to Hooty and the Blowfish and scraping the last of the KY jelly out of the 55 gallon drum.

A grown man using the “ignore” feature is the bytch of the house. She’ll plow you later

Looks great, Roy.

I'm sure you're gonna do really great.........if you dont phug it up.....


What you got against hooty?

Bet Consuela loves you putting her stanky tuna cat on blast over the interwebs.



(its not supposed to smell like low tide Roy)

Pretty much only buy new when we have to.

Nothing a new repurposing project cant fix...

I gather up all the scrap plate, pipe and angle iron I can find. I enjoy making useful things out of it.

All kidding aside, Fireball (aka, plowboy) appears to be quite the artisan judging from the pix. If I recall correctly, he was posting the progress of the construction of his patio a couple of years ago, his abilities are most impressive.

What a shock.

Shet to Shinola Builders, Inc

We repurpose nightmares into dreams.

Repurposed an old log I found while walking the river bank. Also found the steel that I cut and rolled into circles. The map looks old but it’s actually new and I just weathered it for affect.

These pieces are getting turned into stools for the table

Lots of hard work!!!

Lots of cool projects but I especially like the Hanco grill.

Nice. When you have it, you spell it C-L-A-S-S.

Awesome...

Those trunks didnt happen to come from that apple orchard in the wizard of oz did they? They almost seem to have facial features.

Came from the Delaware river. Not sure where they floated in from. They kinda remind me of mulberry but that’s just a guess

This spot looks like a dirty butthole

I honestly think repurposed stuff can be some of the nicest and it’s a pretty smart way to go about life. Often times you get a better product for less money than anything you could buy new. I built our dining table last year out of some old oak boards and beams used in one of the horse stalls

As in, raised from the bottom of the river? That can be a lucrative excercise.

Nah the river is 45’ deep and runs pretty fast out to the Delaware bay and eventually the Atlantic Ocean about 50 miles away. I found them along the shoreline about 3/4 mile from where I park. Used a deer sled to drag them back to the truck. It’s not fun or easy but it’s worth it. Lots of big stuff washes up during storm tides and gets trapped high on the bank and just sits there for years.

Turned out great. I like the black metal frame. Makes it stand out. What are the dimensions? Looks like you could have the whole family at one table for Christmas dinner

My guess would be sycamore. They get pretty knobby and grow by rivers.

There’s a couple sycamores washed up that I’d love to get but they’re about 4’ in diameter. Also a giant red oak but it gets wet every high tide. Sad that it’ll just rot away. I’ll do some research and see if there’s a positive way to identify them

Used birch flooring, recovered chair.

Cool stuff fellas!!!!

Good thread!!!

Nice projects.

I'd bet you get lots of compliments on that. Well done.

WHat's your favorite song from Fiddler on the Roof?

lmao

I'll fix it. Here is a better option:

Lazy afternoon. 106 today, 114 tomorrow.

That heart shaped thing you made was neat.

I appreciate things like that, and scavenge and make things from old shidt too.

Cool thread Ballz.

In a country where most things are considered disposable, it's cool to see things remade.

A fat man with a heart LOL I think she"s going to want to build another patio around it. These were leaning against a madrone tree for so long I had to cut the tree out of the expanded metal to move them.

Always interesting to see what members create.

Here is a elk and hay cart I fashioned using an old satellite dish for the sides. Some scrap aluminum, quick release wheel chair hubs with heavy duty BMX rims and spokes and some front castor type wheels. I did this when I was still teaching auto. We would place the largest kid in the class in the cart and the kids would take him and down the hall to test it. We had to adjust the castor angle so the front casters didn't shake like the shopping cart wheels. To date it has moved five elk and at least one hundred bales of alfalfa downhill to the storage barn.

Very cool.

Do you have access to potatoes that are 5" in diameter? If not, go with those small decorative gourds or whatever the fouck they are called.

I have a 10' section of some really thick walled 3" yellow plastic pipe I've been wanting to repurpose into a spud gun. Don't know yet whether I will build it for compressed air, or gas.

!!! I've got pumpkins up the wazoo!

Looks great Fireball, and I can see this thing snowballing for a while, which can happen to show-offs with talent....

Had some worn out slippers.

Solid work, right there....Good Job !

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You better hope Jeremiah Johnson doesnt see this....it may come across as plagiarism

Then again I dont think his sole hinges featured self closing like yours.

Firewood bin for the patio pit keeps the rain off

Nothing quite like a backyard wienie roast in the pouring rain.

Reusing. Good old Dierks creosote posts.

Shove em’ up the wazoo

Flavor, Flav....Go to the cooking forum and answer some grill questions.

Fûck’n woman is hard to track down when she’s out hunting scalps.

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Some of the wrought iron, hinges ,door knocker, handles I saved and stored from an antique set of busted up doors and some of the square pieces I chiseled out of an old fireplace before we demolished the building...with a lot help from a "Real carpenter" they became doors to the veggie garden. The only material store bought was the lumber.

Really nice work!

Doesn't look like any wrought iron I have seen.

Yep. Looks like wrought iron’s inbred cousin