Different Kind Of Bottle Tree

[Kilgore47]

A bottle circle.  A friend sent a picture of a round bottle tree and asked if I could build one.  So I borrowed my neighbor's HF hydraulic jack pipe bender and went to work.  Drew a pattern on the concrete floor and started bending.  Bend a little - move the pipe about an inch and bend a little more.  Bend - move - bend - move.  Turned out to be a slow process - but it worked.  Ended up making the circle in four sections because I couldn't make a full circle with that type of bender.  I need a better pipe bender.  Built a base for this one and the circle  rotates 360 degrees.  It's made out of 1 1/2" sch 40 carbon steel pipe.  Might try sch 20 next time.  Still have some grinding to do so my ugly welds will look better.

 

Strumming the rods with out the bottles on it makes a wind chime sound.  Maybe the next one will be a wind chime.  Better pipe bender first.  Three hours to bend it instead of three days.

[Plymouthy Adams]

them some awful clean bottles, can't even see them.....?

[Dave72dt]

"Leaves" change with the seasons.  Late fall all the leaves should be or have dropped by now.  

 

[Kilgore47]

18 hours ago, Plymouthy Adams said:

them some awful clean bottles, can't even see them.....?

?I thought about adding a few bottles before I took the picture.  I let the new owner supply their bottles of choice.  Some use wine and some use beer or a combination of both.  One of the trees I made is full of old soda bottles.  This circle will be delivered next weekend and I'll get to see the bottles they have collected.  

 

15 hours ago, Dave72dt said:

"Leaves" change with the seasons.  Late fall all the leaves should be or have dropped by now.

I have considered making one with metal leaves.  It would be nice to have access to a plasma table to cut out all the leaves.  That would take forever with my cut off wheel.

[Ulu]

Build a small die and punch them out.