Budsbunny
Well-Known Member
Hi all, this will be my first “real” post, it will be a (continuing) journal of modifying a clothes dryer into a rotating garden. My budget for it is $250 (Canadian) and I am pretty sure I can do that for this amount of money. Now, before lots of people start telling me that it is smaller than existing ones presently on the market: yes it is, but it will be very easy to double the size in the future without almost any cost, and the cost is only a fraction of existing ones. This post will only show the way I do it and my progress with doing so, I am retired and presently flipping a house so there is not much time for questions and answers, but I am considering to make a “do’s and don’ts” file at the end, depending how successful the project will be.
Last but not least…..I was born and raised in the Netherlands but live for 19 years in Canada, of which 12 years in Quebec and 7 years now in Ontario (never regret that move and never looked back). What I am trying to say is that English is not my mother tongue, so bear with me and please try to understand in case of any mistakes.
So here we go…..
History
My first attempt was to make a rotating garden from 2 bicycle rims that I had lying around (see picture) to make a windmill in the future.
But as I was working on it, I started to realize more and more that it would be a “flimsy” thing and I realized that I would ran into trouble AND cost to support the drum and give it the desired speed of 1 turn per hour, so I had to come up with something better and stronger.
Here is the “bad boy” that I came up with.
An Elextrolux Steam Dryer 8.0 cu/ft, for free on Kijiji. It had a broken heating element and the control panel gave some errors, none of those things I needed for my project.
To be continued….Cheers!
Last but not least…..I was born and raised in the Netherlands but live for 19 years in Canada, of which 12 years in Quebec and 7 years now in Ontario (never regret that move and never looked back). What I am trying to say is that English is not my mother tongue, so bear with me and please try to understand in case of any mistakes.
So here we go…..
History
My first attempt was to make a rotating garden from 2 bicycle rims that I had lying around (see picture) to make a windmill in the future.
But as I was working on it, I started to realize more and more that it would be a “flimsy” thing and I realized that I would ran into trouble AND cost to support the drum and give it the desired speed of 1 turn per hour, so I had to come up with something better and stronger.
Here is the “bad boy” that I came up with.
An Elextrolux Steam Dryer 8.0 cu/ft, for free on Kijiji. It had a broken heating element and the control panel gave some errors, none of those things I needed for my project.
To be continued….Cheers!