ISO suggestions for what's left of my wagon wheel?!

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After a few month's absence at our place in the woods, we headed up last summer to prepare it for our retirement.   To our dismay our cool old wagon wheel was destroyed!  We suspect termites but whatever, they were quick and sadly, thorough.   I'm trying to come up with something cool to do with the metal that's left and am wide open for suggestions.   Thanks in advance!

Lavende · Answer

It would be gorgeous as a vertical garden filled with succulents! You could even select the plants and arrange them to evoke the former wagon wheel (which was so lovely!)

169756 · Answer

Let me get my hands on this stuff! The small metal rings I have I just realized can be combined with the 2 steel discarded wheel rotors I saved from the trash and now I'll make a little wagon of sorts for my rock garden. Thanks for helping me put it together with your pics. Your result possibilities are endless. I saved an old hand tiller from the neighbors trash years ago and use it in my shade garden every year. Good luck

Ruth wallace · Answer

I see four rims. Those would make a very neat hanging plant holder. Use heavy duty chain between each ring and to hang with. Lowes has heavy duty tree limb hangers to hold the chains. Measure each rim diameter and find pots to fit rims then plant, hang enjoy.

169756 · Answer

Definitely. Hauling stuff (treasures) home and getting past my hubby is the other challenge :) He just has no vision! :)

Linda Clawson Wright · Answer

Save the wood parts let it become part of a shadow box or wreath. Make sure no insects are left by soaking in dog shampoo

Cindi · Answer

That would make an amazing oversized clock, the amount of spindles are perfect for one

Elizabeth Miller · Answer

Well the metal left is still cool....you could hang a welcome sign in the circle, or hang a potted plant in it.

Mcgypsy9 · Answer

I would take that large ring of metal and have a mirror put in it and display it either on a porch or in your home...it is gorgeous!

Wanda Mulley · Answer

I'd make a coffee table with the pieces.

Anna Marie · Answer

I would make a display table or side table and add glass to fit the top. Use the middle steel and add a decorative wood base to it. Use 1 Tbsp of dark brown milk paint, and 1 cup of water. It will look brand new. They seal it with hemp oil and it will be shiny. Spray paint the iron with black or brown rustoleum paint if you want the new look. Or just clean it up and made it all look natural. Great piece of history

Neva Overy-Morgart · Answer

How about turning it into a glass top pestled garden table.

9530106 · Answer

We had one in the flowerbed when I was growing up that did the same thing. Sadly, mom and stepdad got rid of the pieces, unbeknownst to me!

Cyndy B · Answer

Thanks everyone, some great suggestions!   I should have been clear about out need to use it outside.   We have no room inside for something that big....too bad, cause there have been some great ideas!

Ilona Elliott · Answer

In Eastern Oregon where old wagon wheels abound, they used the large ones for pot hangers--drill three holes in it evenly spaced, hang with chain, and drill more holes for S hooks to hang pots on. My husband made a cool one with some iron he bent into scrolls incorporated. I would take the smaller ones and drill a hole in them then screw them to a fence or shed to hold pots with plants. Can you believe when we moved my hubby threw out the pot hanger. It was large and didn't fit our new house, but I was going to hang it outside and hang canning jars with copper wire to it and use it to hold candles in our gazebo--like a candlabra, which is another idea for it!

Judith · Answer

Look at the pins for wine barrel rings on Pintrest. I have a few pinned. My fav is the one made into a water feature.

Marion Nesbitt · Answer

How shocking! Termites and carpenter ants are so destructive. If you suspect termites are the culprits, did you get your buildings checked?

Liliana Wells · Answer

I wonder if you could train morning glories to go around it.

Shelley · Answer

What about a tiered flower garden? Fill the big ring, and then add the smaller rings by size (if rings aren't the same size), or if rings are the same size, then stagger the small rings. Fill each ring with dirt and plant flowers. Like a wedding cake that gets smaller with each layer.

Vero Nishka · Answer

You can hang it on the wall outside and put somes flowers hang to it it would be like a frame for flowers or a sort of wreath

Becky Wood · Answer

Make a lg windchime hanging the inner rings from the lg ring. Plant flowers etc around it all. Use the lg cyclinder beside it with more flowers or plants in it. The piece of wood that is left could be treated with a water resistant product and either added to your little 'garden' as more decoration or it could be hung on the outside wall (or inside) as part of another decor collage.

Linda Fraser · Answer

Big country wind chime. You could look in the thrift stores for different metal items like forks, spoons, small metal plates, etc anything that would make noise. I would use fishing line to hang them from the ring think. Since it's big I would run some fishing line across it also so you can attach stuff so they can knock against eachother. I would paint the ring thing white and anything I hang I would paint different colors. I would use restoleum because it's for metal and outdoors. You could also leave it rustic.

Pammy · Answer

So sad for you, I love wagon wheels and that one was a beauty! Don't you want to rebuild it? Might not be but so hard, you have a picture and a remnant to go by... enjoy your retirement

MaryStLouis · Answer

You could mount it upright in your garden and train a delicate vine to wrap around the metal as it grows. A clematis would look beautiful this way.

Cyndy B · Answer

Hi Bryce  - a friend gave the wheel to my husband several years ago when he moved away.  That's part of why we were so shocked and saddened by its destruction.

Cyndy B · Answer

To other commenters -  I'm confused why I didn't get notifications about them and yet received today's.  I wish to send my belated but sincere thanks to you all!  I found a cool old 'cauldron' type pot that I  filled with sweet potato vines and placed in front of the wheel. They wound up and around and are still trailing and climbing all over!  Here's a view of the small amount of wheel visible right now LOL.  I don't think this is our final use but it made us smile this summer!  :)

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