Deluxe Shoe Scrubber

Deluxe Shoe Scrubber FARM HOME Clothes 34-1-33 "My homemade shoe scrubber combines brushes with scraper blades and also has a handlebar to hold onto. It lets me get most of the crud off my shoes before I go into the house," says Gene Boehler, Farmersville, Ill. Boehler keeps the shoe scrubber in a shallow rectangular hole in the concrete walkway, mounted on a cross section of telephone pole. The hole serves as a collection point for scrapings and can be easily cleaned out. He started with a commercial "Scrusher" that consists of a pair of poly brushes to clean the sides of the shoe or boot, and a brush between them to clean off the soles (ph 800 658-9018; www.scrusher.com). He wanted something to hold onto while using the Scrusher so he used -in. metal rod to make a 3 1/2-ft. tall handle, which is welded to both sides of the Scrusher's metal body. The handle extends down through holes drilled into the wood base. A pair of 6-in. wide, 1/8-in. thick metal plates are welded onto each side of the handle. "I use the plates to scrape mud off the bottoms and sides of my boots, and then after most of the dirt is scraped off I use the brushes to finish the job," says Boehler. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gene Boehler, 27299 W. Frontage Road, Farmersville, Ill. 62533 (ph 217 227-3220).

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