The Good Banter Thread

[taherrmann4]

Sissy nice write up. Now when you make one could you make a video as well..... Is the handle the same way just half a row? Do you screw the rows together?

 

[taherrmann4]

lol sissy now they will see those across the county...........and we will say it is a sissy pot!

LOL

 

[taherrmann4]

Hey sissy you need to start a new thread on this so it does not get lost. Maybe in the DIY section......

 

[j.w]

Sissy you could use the big timbers to make a big one of those for your 25yr old son to get in next Easter!
Actually a big one of those would make a nice garden.............hmmmmmmmmmmmm, thinking now...........oh danger, danger!

 

[taherrmann4]

I am going to make a huge one and make another pond? :lamp5:

 

[sissy]

I actually had one I didn't put a handle on and last row was put on top after the liner was put in birds loved it .But then needed the piece of liner for my pond .sissy pot and hope no one does there business in it .Handle is 3 pieces and one is cut in half and that is the sides of the handle going to the basket .What ever the top row is is what you cut the handles too .Say if the inside is cut to 14 inches then you will need 3 extra for the handle .I never screw the rows to each other as it would be to heavy to move .Makes a great easter basket .The more rows you add the bigger the basket .I made one that was 6 feet tall for a day care center to put there sign on ..Six feet tall means 6 feet wide or round .You can use the same concept to make wagon wheels just add a center circle with ribs coming off of it .The basket has 8 of them for each row and as long as you do a 22 1/2 cut on the miter saw you have it made .

 

[sissy]

I have made a few to cover peoples well heads and even use one to hide my pond stuff in ,i just made a lid .Great place to hide food and other things for the pond and even an aerator .Thousands of uses ,hide a hose ,hide garden tools you need all the time near the garden .

 

[addy1]

I have made a few to cover peoples well heads and even use one to hide my pond stuff in ,i just made a lid .Great place to hide food and other things for the pond and even an aerator .Thousands of uses ,hide a hose ,hide garden tools you need all the time near the garden .

I have loved the look of them ever since you first posted your pictures. You really need to do a diy thread on your build sissy, this information will get lost in this long thread! I am going to make some for the hose down by the pond all the equipment I have laying around. And with the discount at hd going to go buy some lumber...................it is 97 cents here too starting today, I see in my future a drive to home depot. darn I can't the truck is broken, wonder if they would fit in my prius.............humm

 

[sissy]

rent a truck borrow a truck .Prius with wings .For a small basket it would take 3 to 4 of them,that would depend on how tall you want it .I have even left off the handle and made a lid and a bottom to store stuff in it .I called my home depot and they brought in stakes of them for the sale .

 

[sissy]

Well glad I went to Danville today and had to stop at the dump .I got 2 large concrete pots with pansy and grass in the middle and 4 nice large clay pots with petunias in them and 4 fiberglass really large pots also .Good gosh why would you throw those out .Heck of a time loading them but where there is a will there is a way .Lucky the potting soil was the light weight stuff .But had to take the plants out of the concrete one but still put the plants in the truck .I got 20 landscape timbers and lucky also they just were putting a new bunch of them out .What did I step in because I want to step in it again :razz:
:razz:
hot as sin out but got a third of my grass mowed and boy steamy hot

 

[addy1]

lol sissy, i went and picked up 20 in my little prius, they only had two pallets left and one guy was buying a whole pallet. I managed to mow our grass, it was very hot and steamy
80 and humid, tomorrow 88 , then 90, then 91 then 94 , so back to being in the house by 10 am.

 

[sissy]

Well 7:40 now and waiting for lawnmower to cool down to refuel and guess no more mowing for the night .Soon as a refill the tank when it cools down i will put it back under the carport .I have a 1/4 to do yet and then trimming .Yep gonna be a steamy hot holiday gonna keep more people in .

 

[j.w]

Cool you both got the deal of the day!

 

[addy1]

lol jw, now I have to do something with that stack of lumber............. it needs to dry out some, wet and heavy

hey Sissy, I was mowing today, my red rider, zooming along, had to slam on the breaks to miss a black 5 foot long king snake! Made me thing of you and your encounter with the snake, including stitches!

I got off the mower and guided it over to the rose bushes so it would not get hurt, even had my camera in my pocket, totally forgot it was there. Beautiful snake, glad I missed it.

 

[CountryEscape]

Way to go, Addy! Black snakes are the best, they keep mice and rats under control. Do they bother the fish? I don't think of them in the water at all.
Sissy, your pots are really neat, I've admired them in your yard photos before, along with all your other neat novelty items that you build yourself. You are sooo handy! I don't own a miter saw or even a miter guide .... maybe someday.