Auw Bruce, now you made me do this. Didnt want to share but now I have to compensate your puctures.
We are at Curacao for our 25 th wedding anniversary.
Those are very nice beds and your area is beautiful, David. Kind of surprised to see the Corten steel. Earlier in my life I did structural and ornamental ironwork. US steel brought out Corten in the early 70ās and were looking for markets for it so they convinced the owner of a office tower I worked on in Ann Arbor Michigan to use it for the outside skin of the building. (curtainwall) Installed raw, and after a while it began itās oxidation process but the surface rust started bleeding and stained all the masonry and paving around the building. Big lawsuit. I donāt know how that came out. Pretty much ended the advertised material of the future for exterior cladding. Havenāt seen any in many years prior to your photos. Supposed to last a lifetime. Automakers rejected it as a frame material because they didnāt want their cars to last that long,
Iāll let you know if it works later, but I have a feeling it would take a brave and athletic snail to avoid falling headfirst and having to do a 180-degree rotation.
Another solution I had before this one was two metal ribbons side by side connected to battery.
Itās drastic but less aesthetically pleasing.
With a good zoom on the photo, you can see the device; I had used 2 stainless steel strips.
Hi Tom,
Where I live, Corten steel is widely used for its rusted appearance in exterior decoration.
Weāre seeing more and more Corten steel planters in private homes.
Normally, Corten steel should stabilize in terms of rust within the first three years unless moisture gets trapped inside.
Otherwise, a rust accelerator and then a special varnish can be applied to stabilize it and avoid rust stains (I hope I wonāt have to do this, but Iāve considered it).
Also used for industrial chimneys here, the 210 foot ones we have at work for the steam boilers have no maintenance needed except for the occasional check for cracks caused by swaying in the wind but to my knowledge none has been found. Outstanding material.
The oldest one now standing for 44 years.
But yes, there is some discolouring of the ground around them.
I have never heard of that, but i see why. It is a neat idea.
It looks great. I didnāt know what corten steel was, and I was going to mention you could use tannic acid to help prevent rust and give it a blue-black color. (it needs to have rust on it to work as it binds with the rust to make the coating.)
david, really nice environment on your placeā¦the horse is a belgian draft horse?
the snail fence should work i think, i have tried a lot of years ago with a little model about 10 cm in square, bended to the inner side, and than i gave some snails inside, and they could not escapeā¦
only the metal was very fine, the edge therefore was more or less sharp
