Rubbish

This is what it looks like at the moment, I am trying out different ways of arranging the cans but haven't got enough yet. This looks rubbish. It is rubbish.

Road kill

At the moment I am collecting cans and try to pick up a few most days. So far I have found two unopened ones in different places and then I got really lucky and found my first road kill. Yes a Tunnocks tea cake in very good unopened condition. I didn't eat it though just took it's photo and consigned it to the compost bin.

As you can see in good condition, just a few bruises

Two halves make a whole

The two halves have now been joined together and that all went quite well.  I started in the workshop by suspending one half from the ceiling but it was all a bit cramped. I would have had to take the doors and part of the door frame off to get it out so decided to assemble it outside in the end.  I used a scaffold tower to suspend one half and lowered it onto the bottom one.  The globe is hollow and doesn't weigh very much so it can be moved fairly easily ( I hope).

   Lowering the top onto the bottom.

This is what it looks like at the moment.
It is 6 feet diameter and is held together with about
2800 rivets.

                                                                                                         View from inside. 

The wooden part is the former, half a sphere, on which the shape was created. It is not part of the finished globe.