Daswulf

I think there is a video of a mouse putting tools away. If I remember right, the guys tools he left on the work bench kept ending up in his toolbox over night when he was sure he had left them out. He ended up setting a camera up and caught video of a mouse putting them in the box. Ok so I just looked it up and had remembered a bit wrong, it was just stuff from a parts tub. But hey, Id love if my mice did this for me instead of chewing things up.

Wouldn't any of us. At scrap rate probably $7500. Likely worth more, and just plain neat. Only copper I find on our property with a metal detector is pennies and copper jackets from bullets up where we shoot. Some sort of critter likes to make little piles of lead and copper.

I took my girls the the Carnegie museum of natural history saturday and they had this chunk on display there. Didn't get to see as much as I would have liked but the girls had fun for as long as their attention spans could handle.

I only had a problem with bees one year. Bought some traps that did little (caught a Lot but still was a ton of them.) My research said they tend to move on and seemed to as I didnt have an issue the next year. Anyway, an effective trap I saw afterwards had a tote of dish soap and water with a board with raw chicken stuck to it placed upside down on the tote. The water level is just an inch or so from the meat on the board. The idea is the bees/yellowjackets go for the meat but dont have the clearance to fly off of it and hit the soapy water drowning them. Funny enough I learned a trick for mice that won't hurt our feline, canine or avian predators if you have some you care about but have a mouse problem. Get cornmeal and mix it with baking soda. Mice eat it and fun fact, mice and rats can't burp or fart so they bloat up and die. Cats, dogs, and predatory birds don't have that problem so it won't affect them.

I agree with the others. Well done. Just in case you do something similar with the bars through the frame, if you don't want the welds to show, drill the frame and put the bars through with the bars being just inset from the frame, then you can plug weld the bars in the holes and grind the welds flush. I have also used the hole technique to weld other shaped pieces to another piece so the attachment point wouldn't look welded. Not saying I see an issue with how you did it on this piece.

Nice work Billy. John that looks like a beast.

Thanks Lary, Scott. It was a pretty easy one. Hardest part was welding the thin legs and antennae on.

Unfortunately I didn't get more better pictures. It is basically a wood bolt with the head ground round then a nut chucked up on it for more body and the wing base. The wings are utensil ends that fit the bill. The legs and antennae are finish nails cut to length. Mig weld blobs for the eyes and mouth area. I plan to make some more and will get more and better pictures then.

Thanks Frosty. Good use of some stainless nuts that came out of the Fastenall dumpster.

A little quick sculpture I made for my daughters kindergarten teacher. She loves bees and I have seen variations on this type of thing. It was well recieved.

Looks like some lock out tag out to keep someone from doing something while maintenance was working. Pretty cool.

I discovered that as well Billy. Had to hold the test button on mine. Another one of mine at work wouldn't darken.

Most important parts are there. You could make a bick for the hardy hole. So yeah, if the face plate is solid and it has decent rebound it is worth it.

Plus the drive to get it or shipping. Even handling it would be tough for someone like me. That isn't bad compared to the potential of what you could sell the finished work for. A chain it a chain, sculptural art is subjective. Make something desirable out of it and you could make thousands.

I would Love to have that thing to figure something to do with it.