When does abandoned equipment become "yard art"?

[newbury]

Around rural Mississippi, especially on the backroads, I often see what I consider to be abandoned equipment in front yards and side yards.
Rotting tires, rusted frozen gears.

When does that become "yard art"?

[FONT=&quot]Nice old heavy 2 row breaking plow. One point hitch. Repurpose or yard-art or use. I got the tractor that can pull it. $300 OBO. In person only-- this means U.[/FONT]

Or is it in "the eye of the beholder"?

 

[erda]

In my eye, the old equipment needs to have steel wheels. I have Grandpa’s old horse drawn sickle mower sitting in a perennial bed in the yard.

 

[Dwellonroof]

I’m for steel wheels also

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Saw an old pull type (don't know if designed for horses or tractor, or converted) road grader the other day. It was a strange feeling; kinda looking at an old pull-type combine. They used that stuff when I was a kid, but when I was old enough to help on the farm, nobody (well, almost nobody) used pull-type combines any more. I do recall seeing an actual threshing machine in operation, back, oh, about 1949, on a farm in SW Missouri. They don't grow much wheat in that part of the country, but this was an actual operation, not a demonstration. Having watched the combines in operation in Oklahoma, it seemed like a lot of work to shock the bundles, let them dry, load them on a trailer with pitchforks, haul them to the thresher and pitch them off with pitchforks.

Sorry... got carried away.

 

[ericm979]

If you weed whack around it, it's yard art.

 

[bunyip]

we have an old Crump spreader that is now the biggest planter/pot in the garden, tyres are green, chains beyond repair and all mechanicals rusted solid.
it was like that wwhen we moved here in 2002 and i dragged it to its new spot about 2003, wife filled it with horse s### and compost then planted roses and bulbs over the years.

 

[smstonypoint]

we have an old Crump spreader that is now the biggest planter/pot in the garden, tyres are green, chains beyond repair and all mechanicals rusted solid.
it was like that wwhen we moved here in 2002 and i dragged it to its new spot about 2003, wife filled it with horse s### and compost then planted roses and bulbs over the years.

This isn't it, but I haven't seen an upright piano repurposed as a flower planter in the front yard of a home in Seneca SC.

Steve

 

[RNeumann]

Around rural Mississippi, especially on the backroads, I often see what I consider to be abandoned equipment in front yards and side yards.
Rotting tires, rusted frozen gears.

When does that become "yard art"?



Or is it in "the eye of the beholder"?

As soon as you take the rotted tires off and plant at least one flower near it....it’s art!

 

[Thomas]

first its call state of the art,than when sets idle but still use with call yesterday's iron,follow by art.

 

[turnkey4099]

Saw an old pull type (don't know if designed for horses or tractor, or converted) road grader the other day. It was a strange feeling; kinda looking at an old pull-type combine. They used that stuff when I was a kid, but when I was old enough to help on the farm, nobody (well, almost nobody) used pull-type combines any more. I do recall seeing an actual threshing machine in operation, back, oh, about 1949, on a farm in SW Missouri. They don't grow much wheat in that part of the country, but this was an actual operation, not a demonstration. Having watched the combines in operation in Oklahoma, it seemed like a lot of work to shock the bundles, let them dry, load them on a trailer with pitchforks, haul them to the thresher and pitch them off with pitchforks.

Sorry... got carried away.

Been there and done that with horses about 1945. Dad was the last farmer in the area to give up farming with horses.

 

[Jstpssng]

Been there and done that with horses about 1945. Dad was the last farmer in the area to give up farming with horses.

Before my time, but we still have the old tack and many of the old horse drawn equipment in the barn. Also an old Oliver plow still outside that was complete until my father forgot what it was and let one of the plows go for scrap.
Getting back to the original question, one man's trash is another's treasure with a very fine line in between. I've seen some nicely done landscapings consisting of a border enclosing crushed stone, and an old implement in the middle. (I thought about doing that with the above mentioned Oliver, but they were afraid it would get stolen by ""scrappers.") OTOH there's a tree which I drive past often which has been accumulating shoes, sneakers, and boots for so many years that the limbs are laden with them. I don't even know how they get a lot of them up there. To me it looks pretty stupid but they like it, and it's their tree.

 

[oosik]

There are two homes on the way into town that have old farm machinery sitting out by the county road. One has an old tractor - six cylinder with steel wheels, flat steel spokes and very large steel chevrons on the wheels. The other has a side mount sickle and some type of plow.

One of these days I will get pictures of that old tractor and see if we are as good as we think we are and can identify that old tractor.

 

[Jstpssng]

There are two homes on the way into town that have old farm machinery sitting out by the county road. One has an old tractor - six cylinder with steel wheels, flat steel spokes and very large steel chevrons on the wheels. The other has a side mount sickle and some type of plow.

One of these days I will get pictures of that old tractor and see if we are as good as we think we are and can identify that old tractor.

I used to play that with my father. I'm always coming across old vehicles abandoned in the woods, I would take a picture and the next time I saw him he would tell me what it was.

 

[bcp]

Been there and done that with horses about 1945. Dad was the last farmer in the area to give up farming with horses.

It's been many years since I saw a horse from the '40's in a yard. Maybe antique horses don't work as yard art, but new ones do.



Bruce

 

[2LaneCruzer]

 

[bunyip]

We were still using horses in the mid 50's in the UK, not far from us there is some old road making gear that was towed, must get a pic next time I'm down that way.
The harvester we had was drawn by tractor then a horse drawn rake was used (my job when I was about 8), picked up and bundled into sheafs and stacked in small bundles upright, after that it was loaded and taken to the thresher which was driven by the tractor via a long canvas belt.
Very labour intensive and the sheafs after the thresher where made into haystacks, balers arrived not long after and combine harvesters not long after that, for us anyway.
Not being a big farm a lot of equipment was cost prohibitive for the land we had.

 

[npalen]

We were still using horses in the mid 50's in the UK, not far from us there is some old road making gear that was towed, must get a pic next time I'm down that way.
The harvester we had was drawn by tractor then a horse drawn rake was used (my job when I was about 8), picked up and bundled into sheafs and stacked in small bundles upright, after that it was loaded and taken to the thresher which was driven by the tractor via a long canvas belt.
Very labour intensive and the sheafs after the thresher where made into haystacks, balers arrived not long after and combine harvesters not long after that, for us anyway.
Not being a big farm a lot of equipment was cost prohibitive for the land we had.

The variations in "nomenclature" are always interesting between Europe and the U.S. We cut the crop with a binder that created twine wrapped bundles which we then picked up and grouped into shocks.

 

[stingray1]

If you weed whack around it, it's yard art.

Sounds good to me.

 

[Creamer]

I知 for steel wheels also
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Sorry but this just struck me as funny. When those old tractors were new they were sometimes in the front yard and people would take pictures of them but a manure spreader was never in the front yard!

 

[YLee Kioti]

I gots to take a picture fer yah'll.
On the road between Shiner and Gonzales on the left there's a house with literally dozens of tractors in different stages of morphing into yard art!
and for good measure there's an old ford parked under a tree for good measure....lol....