Scott NC Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Just kidding... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Can you switch out the hoe with a golf club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 10, 2021 Author Share Posted June 10, 2021 I never thought about a golf club. Easy. I guess that would make it a playing mantis! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Exactly! I see golf clubs at the scrapyard. Been thinking of buying 3, removing the shafts and replacing with solid steel, tying a knot in them and making a glass topped table from them and seeing if a local Pro Shop takes "consignments". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 It looks like it could eat the earth one bite at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Or at least make a hole in one. Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 I am near what seems like the golf center of the universe. I smell a market. Golf club themed scrap art.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 GO FOR IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 I may as soon as I get my shop out of the storage unit! And find new local sources for abandoned misfit scrap metal that nobody wants. I wonder how a rusty scrap sculpture conglomeration on the clubhouse lawn would go over. I made a pickaxe for the old mantis and started on a hobo sack on a stick but never finished it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 A miner's pick is the school symbol out here at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. (Check how this small public university ranks!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 I love everything mining and prospecting related. I caught from my father. I once bought an old ore cart at a welding shop and put it in my front yard as yard art. The neighbors were not fond of it. It soon turned into a fued. I got some short lengths of rail with it and my mom planted flowers in it, but for some reason it inflamed them. I thought it was pretty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Depends on your neighborhood. Out here they go high and are considered "proper" yard décor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 There is no accounting for taste. I prefer rusty/ic over gaudy any day. I welded a bunch of rr spikes and bolts together once in a kind of pyrimid shape out of boredom and on a visit my sister saw it and just had to have it. I later visited her and it was sitting on her mantle. She get's it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 I can just see that Mantis wearing a tam-o'-shanter and holding a mashie niblick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Awesome Nodebt. I could picture one with a napkin around its neck with a fork and knife getting ready for a meal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Nodebt, as Thomas says, out here in the West with a strong mining history ore cars are highly desired yard decorations. Sometimes they are used as planters and sometimes filled with rocks or even real ore. This is particularly true in old mining towns which are now ski resorts such as Aspen, Breckenridge, or Telluride, CO. Given my geology background and the fact that I once worked as a hard rock miner, if I found one I would strongly consider hauling it home and using it decoratively. "By hammer and hand all arts do stand." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 Thomas, I am always googling something after I read your posts. Thank you much Das. The one "claw" has a hook in it and I used to drag it to the farmer market and hang a basket of hot peppers from it. George, I don't know how that ore cart wound up in Nebraska but that's where it stayed unfortunately. I shipped enough unexusable rusty stuff with me the way it is. It would have looked better with a bunch of miners tools sticking out of it and a metal sculpture miner pushing it but I don't argue with mom or disfunctional neighbors (to a point). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Shoot I just got shot by one of my neighbors today---twicet! Tetanus in the left arm and Pneumococcal in the right; but she promised to bring over a load of horse manure for the compost pile this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 12, 2021 Author Share Posted June 12, 2021 Now thats my kind of neighbor. A compost pile is a wonderful thing... Black gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lary Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Would have made a good title for a 1950's scifi movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 I love praying mantis' and love the sculpture. Excellent work. Pnut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 12, 2021 Author Share Posted June 12, 2021 Thanks, Pnut. I love them too. I intend to do as many insects as I can before I croak. No yellow jackets or wood ticks though. Lary, there was one. I read the plot and it sounds like a must see.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deadly_Mantis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Boy, that Marg was quite the tomato, eh? I'm thinking you should be watching for scrounge that'd make a Washington Monument to do a Deadly Mantis sculpture! Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 12, 2021 Author Share Posted June 12, 2021 "Joe takes the opportunity to pull Marge into an embrace." All's well that ends well! Lucky dog.... Washington Monument and tanks! I'm going to pick an Alaskan insect to do next. According to Insect Identification For The Casual Observer, there are 504 bugs to choose from.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rojo Pedro Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Very nice Nodebt. It has personality. Thumbs up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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