Snail from a tire: how to make

Owners of country sites always want their offspring to look beautiful and well-groomed. To do this, they not only master the basics of agriculture and agronomy, but also often take a great interest in arranging the garden landscape, so that the land not only bears fruits, but also gladdens the eyes of holidaymakers. Within the culture of landscape design came to us a fashion for garden sculpture. In Europe, it was traditionally the figures of gnomes, considered shoddnikami and perfume of the garden. At us the habit to furnish a garden with sculptures has got the features - on sites of our compatriots gnomes a rarity. But they are full of other inhabitants, made from improvised materials: plastic bottles, old utensils and even from automobile tires.

Automotive rubber in general was a universal material for garden sculptures in Russian. A swan made of tires, a snail from a tire or a sun from a car ramp - this list can be continued. In this case, the main thing is to use old, worn out tires, so that the tread pattern does not make the sculpture too coarse. How to make a cochlea from a tire, for example?

Rubber, from which these automotive products are manufactured, is cut with a very sharp knife. If possible, it is better to use it at all for cutting it with an electric jig saw. Still, in order to get a snail from a tire, you need to stock up with screws, a screwdriver, a pair of metal rods, gasoline and water-based paint. It is better to choose tireless tires for tires - a metal mesh inside the rubber, because the process of cutting them can be very laborious, it will require a lot of replaceable blades for a jig saw, and it is impossible to do this with a knife in general.

Begin. And the first thing to do is to cut the tire to get one solid strip of rubber. It must be cleaned of dust and gently pruned on both sides. Now our "snail of tires with our own hands" should acquire a head. To do this, we cut out the horns from one of the edges of the strip. After that, all the workpiece should be degreased with gasoline and painted. It is better to do it immediately on the workpiece, rather than on a finished hand-made. So draw under the horns of the muzzle, set the main color of the cochlea and decorate the pattern with the future curls of the shell.

The next thing a snail from a tire will have is a shell house. From the opposite side of the side we begin to twist the rubber into the spiral, but not to the end - we leave the piece under the neck. Lock the sink with small screws. Now our snail from the tire should proudly raise its head - after all, it is almost ready. To keep the head of the snail, you need to insert twigs from the metal into the neck. You can replace them with thick wire, but a more rigid construction will be more durable.

Well, the new garden sculpture is ready, it remains to find her a decent place of residence. A snail from a tire will look good on a stone in the middle of an alpine hill, or coquettishly looking out from under the leaves in a vineyard - its traditional habitat.