Repurpose, reuse

Geo-TH,In

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I don't want to take away for gtractorfan post, so I'll start a new one and hope more will catch on to show what they have come up with.

I may have shown my repurposed plastic bad that a quilt and bed sheets came in which I use to keep my funnel and giggler hose clean.

Took an old lazy Susan spice rack, drilled 3 holes in it. Found 3 glasses to fit and fill them with silverware. Very handy to have at table where we eat.

I made the mother of all lawn roller almost 12 years ago when I retired. I wanted a big enough roller to kill moles. Well I could push mole runs flat, only to have moles laugh at me. They popped the runs back up the next day.

I made this using a 500 gallon oil drum and 10 Inch I-beams form a mobile home frame. The only cost was welding rods and 7 bags of Portland cement. I had to line the inside with concrete, leaving a space for 250 gallons of water. The roller empty weighs in a 4640# empty. That enough weight to squeeze water out of clay after a good rain. If I pull it up a little incline, the tires will slip, roll the sod up, and roller will put it back down. So I only use it empty. Does anyone have a bigger roller? This is a little over 5 ft wide. I mow and roll at the same time. Works best after a good rain or in the spring when frost has left ground very soft.

Again, hope to see more of your ideas. I like to make things instead of buying them, especially when I make something out of nothing.
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I have found that with a large roller like that a tractor large enough to handle it will rut up the yard bad when it's wet enough to roll it out good.
Try a spike aerator on the mole runs ?
 
I sure like you posts about repurpose and reuse. I hope more people will get the idea to post thing they have built from junk or things they have laying around, verses buying new. I have friends who are excellent about building things from things they have on hand. I'm always amazed the imagination of people and what they can build. I have another friend who can build anything but he uses all new steel and parts, that's ok but can sure run up the cost. I'm always on the lookout at auctions for things I can build something else out of it.
That roller was a great idea but I'm wondering about the 7 bags of cement you added to the tank. I assume you somehow lined the inside of the tank with concrete, how did you do that? Could explain how you lined the inside of the tank with cement?

Keep the ideas coming you have some great ideas.

Dick
 
Guess you need to roller I have to fix them moles. LOL Years ago I picked up a road roller at auction for the super high price of $125. Says right on it 5-8 ton army corp of engineers. Left it there and came back with a good battery and gas and had it up and running in about 30 minutes. Sold the front roller off of it to a guy in Arkansas for $200 so he could roll his run way for his plane. I still have the back roller which I have had plans to make into a road roller I could pull behind a tractor but just have yet to get around to do that. I reused things all the time
 
I drive truck on my lawn, NO damage. Roller actually flattens things. I mow with tractors, not lawm mowers. Farmall C and Jubilee. Use T5C all the time. My yards take it. I mow acres too.
 
If you look at roller, I cut the 4 bung holes, used re bar and took 7 pours to line the sides and ends with cement. I used sand and gravel from gravel pit. I mixed my concrete. That was a challenge.
 
Here's a couple. The green plywood used to be 2 signs. Used it all, had to use smaller pieces to finish the back. The tank on the cart came from an auction, I got 4 of those for $1. I have 3 plumbed together on a stand that catch roof water, plus I hook up the one on the cart. Roof's big enough that a quarter inch nets 200 gallons. Cart wheels came from a scrap yard years ago.
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Repurposing and making stuff out of my scrap pile is a major pastime for me.

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Flower gardening is also a hobby and I'm always looking for ways to display my flowers. This hanger is made out of disk harrow blades and spacers plus dump rake teeth for the arms.

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One of my Clematis vines is climbing the old stainless steel auger out of an ice machine from when I worked at the cannery. I cut it in half and the other half has another Clematis in another location.

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The wife and I walk 2-3 miles every day it's not raining. Maine has a 5? returnable law, but you wouldn't know it from the roadsides, so we pick up cans for something to do while we're walking. Particularly in the Spring, there's enough cans in a mile that Walmart bags won't cut it, so I mounted a trash can to an old golf bag cart. Neither of us plays golf anymore. (Some would say I never did...)
 
Repurposing and making stuff out of my scrap pile is a major pastime for me.

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Flower gardening is also a hobby and I'm always looking for ways to display my flowers. This hanger is made out of disk harrow blades and spacers plus dump rake teeth for the arms.

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One of my Clematis vines is climbing the old stainless steel auger out of an ice machine from when I worked at the cannery. I cut it in half and the other half has another Clematis in another location.

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The wife and I walk 2-3 miles every day it's not raining. Maine has a 5? returnable law, but you wouldn't know it from the roadsides, so we pick up cans for something to do while we're walking. Particularly in the Spring, there's enough cans in a mile that Walmart bags won't cut it, so I mounted a trash can to an old golf bag cart. Neither of us plays golf anymore. (Some would say I never did...)
 
Picture size is fine on my screen. Your plant holders are FABULOUS! A while back I mentioned that I use gallon jugs to water flower pots. One advantage to having lots of plastic jugs is when I go on a watering sortie I take extra jugs and hide them nearby. Later when I'm in the vicinity such as getting the mail, I can water the flower pots while I'm already there.
 
My soil will not take that as years ago I was using a JD M and it was rutting it out.
Mom and Dad have a lot of shale and it will take it even in the spring.
 
To the original poster. Here in Maine they used to use rollers like that. They were usually made out of granite. Back in the 1920's they didnt plow snow. They packed it down with a roller.
 
Used truck tires, used 20 inch gas pipe, 2 1/2 inch bearings from a ski tow rope system. Thirteen feet wide, pulled behind grain drill. Pipe is sealed, can be filled with water.
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jms, that looks like somthin I should make here ,,.. is it road worthy ?/ and does it cultipac nicely ,..
 
It roads very well...nicer than when I used a cast packer behind the drill and had to move that with the loader tractor. Yeah, loader carrying the cast packer, pulling the drill, with grain wagon hooked behind the drill. I should have used heavier steel tube for frame- it is bent a bit. Tires are 22.5, so I welded half inch pipe lengthwise on 20 inch gas pipe, so tires slip snugly over it. First planned for 20 inch tires, but couldn"t find enough, and the 22.5s were free! Packing alfalfa seed is ok with empty packer, but for soybeans, it"s better to fill with water. "Cookies"...outside plates, are half inch thick, also another cookie welded 2 feet in, where the axle shaft terminates on each side. Half moon cutouts on the inside cookies allow for full water fill.
 

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