Functional Yard Art

If you've been to this blog before, you may remember the firewood cabinet project. It holds a cool canvas bag full of firewood brought in off the porch - enough for a night or two.

Further down the project list was some sort of storage box on the porch to keep me from having to hike out to the woodshed every day.

There were problems with the porch box idea, including bugs, mice, and the ability to access wood from both sides, so nothing ever got built.  The other day a simple solution came to me, and I already had the main component. The rusty old wheelbarrow that was the inspiration for the Redneck Recliner.

If I could make the old thing presentable enough to live on the front porch, I could bring over a week's worth of wood and just leave it in the wheelbarrow, right next to the front door.

Bro-in-law Danny just happened to be coming to visit me this week, and since he was my partner in building the recliner from a new wheelbarrow, we figured that between us we would be smart enough to restore an old one.

  

One of the handles was broken and crudely spliced.

The metal was pretty rusty and the wood was rotten, but with some sanding, priming, new handles from East County Lumber and Ranch Supply, and some home-made wooden parts...

 

We ended up with something pretty spiffy.  Since the Redneck Recliner didn't need a wheel, we used its brand new one on this project.

  

Back to the farm supply for some
pavers to make a ramp.

Ready for winter!