What do you do with an old engine block?

[redhawker]

My son works for a company that services generators. Not the little portable ones like you use in camp but the big ones that power large commercial buildings when the power goes out. A couple weeks ago he brought home an old worn out (think it was cracked) V-16 engine block from one of the generators his company repaired. What the heck would anyone do with an old cracked V-16 engine block? How about this...



...looks pretty good if I do say so myself.

 

[Richbaker]

As long as he degreased it 1st...... Pretty cool.

 

[opos]

For years in Mexico old engine blocks were put in the ocean with a big chain attached...became a mooring for boats.

 

[PAShooter]

A great garden planter for any "Motor Head". Cool, I think I will try it as soon as the snow melts in one of my wife's flower beds.

 

[nekvermont]

That looks good, a creative way to display small succulents. A lot nicer than a toilet bowl. :lol:

 

[whichwatch]

That looks good, a creative way to display small succulents. A lot nicer than a toilet bowl. :lol:

I don't know, both seem pretty white trashy to me.

 

[Selena]

So that's what ppl that don't have a foundry furnace do. Interesting.

 

[EVILDOCTOR235]

Wine bottle holder.

 

[blume357]

You're sure to get extra Iron with those veggies now.

 

[toysoldier]

Scrap value of the iron would pay for a lot of nice planters.

 

[willk]

For years in Mexico old engine blocks were put in the ocean with a big chain attached...became a mooring for boats.

My grandparents did the same thing to moor the families E-SCOW sailboat at their summer home in Indiana. It was a model T block. Never failed and the wooden scows had to stay in the water or the planks would dry out opening up the seams. the scow would not float on its lines and if course would leak like a sieve.

 

[Dust in the wind]

Did you spray paint it to keep from rusting? Hope you don't have to move it very often.

 

[graygun]

I'd scrap it.

 

[gtxmonte]

That's a cylinder head, not an engine block..........but either way, don't think I want that in my yard as a planter. I am from Alabama, but even so, that's a little too "Bubba" for me..........LOL!!! I would have to rank that with crankshaft mail box posts and the like

 

[Tallbald]

I like it. But penny and I have a 1956 New Holland manure spreader in our suburban front yard decorated and turned into a planter. Don.

 

[exavid]

Yep good anchor for a mooring buoy. Other than that it's worth a few bucks as scrap iron.

 

[stevemb]

Since a number of states are looking at options for their well-cared for death row inmates. I'm thinking a short length of chain and 30 fathoms. Time to lights out about the same as lethal injection and such.

 

[GunnyGene]

Here's something that's a leeetle bit more fun to do with an old engine. :mrgreen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVhJI0aHXHI

 

[Kevin]

I like it! You did a nice job arranging everything. One or two highlights like that in the yard are nice. Too many would be trashy, but it looks good.