1999 - Volume #23, Issue #4, Page #22
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He Makes Sculptures Out Of Odds And Ends
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He took up the hobby five years ago, making things strictly for family and friends. So far, he's finished nearly 20 of the metal sculptures, which take a half day to two days to complete from welding them together to giving them the final coat of paint.
Here's a sample of Pekarek's handiwork.
Owl - Built from a combine drive wheel rim and disc blade, it camouflages Pekarek's Mom's trash burner. Wings are windmill fins. Feet are rebar. Eyes are carriage bolts with washers. Beak is a sickle section guard.
Cowboy - Six-foot cowboy has a milk can for a body, a freon tank for a head and pipes for arms and legs. Hat is a fan shroud off an old Moline combine. Lariat is rebar as are hands.
Pig - A 10-lb. freon tank is the body of this 1-ft. tall oinker. Head is a front wheel hub off an old Chevy car. Ears were bent from tin, tail is length of rod heated and twisted and legs are pipe.
Turkey - Has a 30-gal. barrel body and windmill fins for wings and tail feathers. Beak is a sickle guard. It has rebar for feet, pipe for a head, and a neck from a part of a late 1960's Moline 3496 combine. About 4 ft. tall.
Sunflowers - Constructed out of rasp bars off the old Moline 3496, they stand 6 ft. tall on pipe stalks and with pipe leaves.
Grasshopper - "Johnny Hopper" is 11 in. long by 6 in. wide and sits atop Pekarek's garage. Body and head are made out of 6 in. tubing. Eyes are lug nuts off a truck. Antenna are #9 wire and legs are out of rebar. Wings are windmill fins.
Pheasants - Bodies built from a pair of 12-in. dia. packer wheels off Deere drill. Heads are worn out drive sprockets from grain elevators on old combine. Tails are windmill fins. Necks are 1-in. sq. tubing.
Guinea Hen - Body is Deere packer wheel. Wings are windmill fins. Neck is sq. tubing. Head is guard off mower sickle section.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Eric Pekarek, Rt. 1, Box 193A, Valparaiso, Neb. 68056 (ph 402 784-3793).
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