Grandaughter got a penguin sculpture for Christmas, welded up from spare parts. Really cute. it’s designed to have a flower pot in the back. The feet are #3 or 4 rebar, the wings are a plow blade. The head looks like the tooth from a backhoe bucket. But what is the body? It is obviously a piece of cast iron, with two countersunk screw holes. It looks like the entire piece is there, except that maybe the top of the narrow end might have been trimmed to allow the head to fit.
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"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
My money says it's a leg from an old cast iron stove or possibly a bathtub.
I would say that is a real good guess.
Those photo files are so big I'm only downloading a couple. So maybe I can't see all the details, but my memory of those legs is that bath tubs all have legs that fit it with a dovetail tongue in a location that would be under the butt of this bird. I don't see it there.Wood stoves had a lot of bolt on legs that would be consistent with the countersunk holes the penguin is sporting.
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Sorry about the size, but I thought 250k was considered small.
You're right, there is no dovetail in the casting. If you would open 005 you can see a rabbett cast into the fat end of the body, next to the feet, so it does kinda make sense that it is from a stove, although I have no first hand knowledge."Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Attached is a photo of the wood stove in my barn. Look familiar?
I can see the resemblance."Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
I agree... it is a cast iron leg
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I could be wrong, so don't take this for gospel, but...
It looks like it's a penguin.
Just because they want to make it personal,
doesn't mean you have to take it personal.
. . . looks just like the one that walked by your place the day before yesterday, right ?Greg
And the two that I tripped over, because they are so short, they were hidden under the snow.~~~You know how difficult it is to make your way through snow that is wet, semi-compacted, and over waist high ?I had to do that today, to get to, and fix, my downed (again), phone line. Took me ALL day long.6 years I had my phone line just laying on the ground. Never a problem.Take the advice of the phone company, and run it overhead, and the first winter, two times in as many weeks, the phone line gets taken out by falling foliage. First just a branch. Then a tree.When I repaired it today, I added a bunch of extra line... and laid it all on the ground again.When the snow is gone and the weather is clear enough, I'll go out there and put it in conduit in a couple places, like before.But for now, I'll leave it alone.
Just because they want to make it personal,
doesn't mean you have to take it personal.