Driving through rural Wisconsin, as I often do, the most commonly seen lawn decoration is probably rusting obsolete farm machinery. I've seen old steam-powered threshing machines, horse-pulled corn planters and hay rakes and the like, and some stuff I don't know the functions or names of. I guess the farmers are proud of having been in business long enough to have accumulated the stuff, and want to show it off. Some people weld together old stuff to make whimsical new stuff. I've seen oil tanks and milk cans made into cows and pigs, and the funniest thing I ever saw was a bicycle where the front wheel had been replaced by a push-lawnmower. I don't think it would work, but I don't think it was meant to--probably just a joke, and a good one. I wish I had a picture.
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