Clever recycling and repurposing hacks?
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A friend brought me a cane from Thailand, but it kept falling on the floor when I was at the cashiers or using a public toilet. So I drilled a hole through the top and inserted a neodymium magnet. I like to use the word neodymium because so few others use it or can pronounce it.
You can see how it will atttach itself to ferrous metals like my front door.
Since the cane was made in Thailand, it needed to be stretched a bit. I whittled an extension and then used a copper plumber's pipe coupling slathered in epoxy to attach the two pieces.The extension was a porous wood. After I stained the extension, I slipped on the rubber crutch tip and stain bubbled from the interior back onto the surface due to the air pressure.
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Photo Copyright Roger Hawkins 2011The thing with the red feet is a Gorilla Pod, a flexible, grip-anything camera tripod. With the legs bent to the proper position the pod can also hold my Nook e-reader.
A heavy tripod is just too much to take when doing travel photography. The Gorilla Pod requires a little ingenuity when searching for a proper support. But, in the trade off, lighter is better unless you have an under-paid over-muscled assistant.
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Necessity is the mother of invention. Soda bottle sandals. What genius! -
At my house, there is no garbage pick up. You have to truck everything to a dump and pay $6.00 per bag. So when I trimmed some branches, I had to decide what I could do with them. The answer was coffee table legs. What I need now is a glass top.
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Roger,
Some good ideas. (also like how you're painting the door and room). Branches? Those look like a trunk. How big is the growth in your area? I am sure out there you could find use for anything that grows, if you have a little spare land. Ramadas, screens, retaining walls, pathways, compost even. Looks like you're having fun in your beautiful spot.
Peter
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Roger probably doesn't have young kids... but I modeled our sandbox on a version that used log cuts instead of the cedar posts that I used...
...just imagine waste wood making up the ring instead...
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After seeing this I made a few new bag clips this weekend.
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@pbacot said:
Roger,
Some good ideas. (also like how you're painting the door and room). Branches? Those look like a trunk. How big is the growth in your area? I am sure out there you could find use for anything that grows, if you have a little spare land. Ramadas, screens, retaining walls, pathways, compost even. Looks like you're having fun in your beautiful spot.
Peter
I live in a mixture of grassland and forest. The local ecosystem is unique and at 4'800 feet in southern Arizona we were able through the weekend without air conditioning. And we had some fierce rain. We have some trees in the 40 ft range.Speaking of screens, people hear harvest ocotillo branches and stick them in the ground with the upper ends tied to a goal post like structure. This "fence" looks dead in the winter, but when the monsoons come, the fence turns green and even flowwers on the top.
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@unknownuser said:
After seeing this I made a few new bag clips this weekend.
Fred, I like that idea, it is definitely going to get used at our place.
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@bmike said:
2 projects, same building for a family owned, fun bike shop that underwent an expansion.
Steel cable rail using reclaimed bike parts and a stair rail using XC skis.The timber frame rail for the loft rail was in place, I purchased the steel cable and channel. The bike parts were recycled. For the stair rail, the timber was recycled and the skis came from customers and a pile of trade-ins from behind the shop.
Hey!!!! is this bike/ski shop in the banf, Alberta region by any chance?
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