Put a ring on it- An ultimate upcycle!

This is the shop where we run our business, Ace Water Wells and Pump Service here in Alaska.  It is about 20 miles from Wicked Raven Farm and from the office here at the house.  It is a great business, but it does qualify as in industrial outfit.  As such, there are often some parts and pieces that show up at the shop and aren't really useful for the drillers so.....

I try to take them and make an upcycle out of them!  Of Course!  The rings in the below photo are the rings that protect the steel casing that you can see in the above picture just to the left of the shop on the rack (sorry it's not a better picture).  Our casing comes from out of state and often as it travels, if the rings aren't in there the casing becomes dented and not as round as we would like.  it makes it difficult to work with if it gets too dinged up in transit.

But once the casing is at the shop and the rings are removed, there really isnt much use for them from a drilling perspective.  The potential is there for it to become a landfill item, which I could just not abide.  So I grabbed a big handful of them to use here at the Farm on the shed that was really a blank wall except for the Green Man face on it!

The 6" terra cotta pots fit perfectly inside the rings!

So with my trusty drill, some galvanized screws, and those 6" pots I set to work making the front of the shed a landscape trick!

They only took 1 screw each to hold them up and I was able to score some 3" herbs from Lowe's for $1.00 each since it is a little late in the season!  Voila - the wall became wonderful and really made the shed less of a blank area.  My only change to this project would be that I would not tilt the rings and pots this way and that.  I love the whimsy but it makes it really hard to water them without standing there for a bit and adding a little water at a time.  Maybe I should leave more space in the pot between the plant and the top of the pot - that could work too!

This project will also work if you attach the rings to a 4x4 post, or a fence rail.  Anywhere really.   And you could put something floral/flowering in the pots if you wanted.  I want to be able to bring the pots in when winter comes so I can continue to use the herbs - hence the herb choice.

Check out what might have come in your packing - or look around for what might be wasted otherwise and see if you can make a landscape trick out of it!  Stay tuned for another industrial upcycle coming soon... based on a Pinterest idea even!

Have fun!