Art from rough mower parts

Ted Austin, equipment manager at the McCall (Idaho) Golf Club, likes to have fun recycling parts from golf maintenance equipment. “Johnny” is made from old parts from a John Deere 9009 rough mower. The main body is a lift arm that was bent, while the legs are roller arms. The eyes are bearings from the rollers. The tail is a piece of a lift chain from a Cushman Core Harvester. There was no cost for the parts, it took about 20 minutes to build, and Austin has done this type of fun recycling many times before by not overthinking it and letting the creative juices flow. Eric McCormick is the golf course director and David Druzisky is the renovation architect.