Flower Planter Made From Old Farm Parts

Flower Planter Made From Old Farm Parts FARM HOME Miscellaneous Jeff Prose figures he has spent a couple hundred hours in the past 5 years building tool hangers equipment organizers and various devices that make his shop user-friendly This past winter he came up with an idea to make his wife’s flower garden unique Prose created a flower planter from an old disk blade an old well pipe and 3 cattle salt feeders “I rescued the broken disk blade and the well pipe from the junk pile and found the salt bowls at an antique shop ” Prose says “I cut a 3-ft piece of pipe and welded it onto the blade to create a sturdy pipe stand for the salt bowls ” He mounted the bowls on the pipe using the original clamp brackets and bolts that attached the bowls to pipes in a cattle barn Prose says the brackets are cast iron and made to hold the 20-lb bowl and 20 lbs of salt “The 10-in bowls make real nice pot holders for trailing flowers Water drains out through tap holes in the bottom of the bowl ” Prose says his wife really enjoys the new stand especially since the original lettering from the manufacturer is visible on all three bowls – Ideal Equipment Company Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Jeff Prose 16278 Fallbrook Dr Lakeville Minn 55044 ph 952 201-2492

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