Antique-looking planters from brake drums.COUNTRYSIDE: You can make durable, antique-looking planters made of worn out trailer truck brake drums. When worn to a certain point, brake drums cannot be resurfaced and are thrown in the scrap heap scrap·heap also scrap heap n. 1. A pile or heap of waste material. 2. A place for discarding useless or worthless material. . Wire brush wire brush n → brosse f métallique wire brush wire n → Drahtbürste f wire brush n → them off then slather slath·er tr.v. slath·ered, slath·er·ing, slath·ers Informal 1. To use or give great amounts of; lavish: slathered gifts and attention on their only child. 2. a. on a thick coat of boiled linseed oil linseed oil, amber-colored, fatty oil extracted from the cotyledons and inner coats of the linseed. The raw oil extracted from the seeds by hydraulic pressure is pale in color and practically without taste or odor. . This gives them a beautiful brown color and stops them from rusting. You can set them on a cement base, cast in a rubber feeder available at most feed stores. They make nice roomy planters for culinary herbs, can be gotten for a few dollars (or for the taking), and look great lining a walkway.--John Plante, 342 Slabtown, Monticello, ME 04760. |
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