Chicken Made From Junk Steel

Chicken Made From Junk Steel FARM HOME Novelty Items 17-3-37 We made this 5-ft. high chicken from junk steel as a surprise gift for my father. We call it the "knuj" which is "junk" spelled back-ward. It stands in a hayfield on my farm and stops a lot of traffic on a nearby highway. My dad was a rancher and antique dealer who also handled a lot of junk. One Sunday morning when he was gone we went to his farm and welded it together from junked out farm machinery parts. We didn't know what we were going to make, but when he came home a couple of hours later it was standing in the yard. Six months went by before he asked anyone where the sculpture came from. We built the body of the chicken from a 3 1/2-ft. dia. steel wheel and welded disk blades, coulters, and part of a road grader blade to the spokes. We used flat steel and part of a keyhole saw blade for the head and a round fan blade for the "waddle". The eyes are steel caps that protect the threads on well pipe. The comb is made from one of the teeth off an old hay sweep. It weighs only about 100 lbs. so we can easily move it out of the way when we mow the field. (Morton McBride, Rt. 2, Box 136, Ainsworth, Neb. 69210 ph 402 387-1724)

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