Big Iron

[Bob]

I saw this iron art on vacation. Looks like something Rocky D might have welded.

The slab is a good 6" thick. Could not tell if it was solid or not with modest tapping. Suspect it was made of thinner (but at least 1/2") plate.

Bob

[Bob]

more art

We also spotted this iron work. Looks NC cut from 2" plate.

Enjoy,
Bob

[Sberry]

That first one looks like a machine part that someone bought at a salvage yard and renamed art.

[cope]

Originally posted by Sberry27
That first one looks like a machine part that someone bought at a salvage yard and renamed art.

Sberry, I don't think artists like your and my definition of art.

[Franz]

That first one looks like a government sponsored waste of good plate. There's a couple in front of the Federal Building in Rochester that cost $97,000- and don't amount to $500 worth of road plate.
Of course, if anybody wanted to pay me that kind of money to burn & weld plate, they could call me an artist, or about anything else they wanted to.

[bjdenommee]

Can you guys imagine what a waste of materail and time that thing was, thats gotta be more than a weeks worth labor.

Again we piss away money on something of little or no value at all, kills me to see thing like this.

Years ago in my area some one did a granite stack of nothing in a park and called it art, he was paid $250,000.00 for "His" creation of art. about 5 years later its was bulldozed to make way for a gazabo that cost $35,000.00 .

Of the 2 I think the gazbo was the better work of art, and worth every penny for its use.

my 2 cents

Bernie

[Thomas Harris]

nobody gonna steal that bad boy!

[Hobart Expert Rock]

ORRRRR...............ONE MANS JUNK IS ANOTHER MAN'S TREASURE.... WE HAVE SOME THINGS OUT IN FRONT OF THE HOBART INSTITUTE OF WELDING TECHNOLOGY THAT ARE SIMILAR ONLY PAINTED AND DONE BY ARTISTS ATTENDING THE INSTITUTE'S CLASSES AND DONATED.................. I STILL CALL IT YARD ART................. NO MATTER WHAT OUR TASTES...... OTHER'S EITHER LIKE OR DISLIKE............... WISH I HAD SOME ARTISTIC TALENT...................HAVE SOME FUN FOLKS.................ROCK
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[Franz]

Yard Art is what you have after the Zoning Enforcment Agent issues an ultimatum to rid the property of "accumulated junk".
3 welders, a couple torches, 50# of rod and a few friends can convert "junk" plows, drags, cultipackers and disks to a very tall and attractive piece of art, especially when the Town Zoning completely fails to address what is ART.
We had a lot of fun building and erecting, and there wasn't squat the town could do about it. The "free form agricultural sculpture" survived the property owner, and required the new owner to bring in a crane to remove it, so we must have built it right. When it was removed, the neighbors missed it too, they didn't have anything to locate their house from for out of town visitors.

[ChadRat]

Franz, do ya have any pics of that? Sounds really cool.