Baskets made of recyled Military Ordanace, Hawthorne NV

[militarybaskets]

Hello I have made a basket out of bomb fins and ammo boxes. There is a military base here in Hawthorne, NV that produced massive ammounts munitions for WWII. Now there is bunkers full of old bombs that are irrelevent with new technologys. So I got my hands on some of these to build a prototype and here it is.

Now I just need to get people here who no nothing about disc golf to support my cause....

please let me know what you think of my basket!

 

[Johnson]

Hey, that's pretty cool! Welcome to the site.

 

[militarybaskets]

Baskets made from Bomb Fins

I got my hands on some ammo boxes and bomb fins and I made a basket. now that it is made I am going to paint the whole thing and try and get some funding to build a course in Hawthorne, NV. This is a patriotic small town and not many people know what frolf or dg even is.

I want to build this to be a one of a kind course. If things go as planned I feel like it would be very cool to use many different types of ordanace and make many different functional "art" baskets.

Please let me know what you think

 

[BrotherDave]

That looks really cool but I can tell you right now that it ain't gonna catch worth a darn. You need an outer layer of chains that come out farther on the top.

 

[militarybaskets]

you would be suprised brother. I have been playing on it for hours the past few days and it works great.

 

[nic777]

well it does have the horizontal chains as well, that can only help.

 

[humchris85]

Sounds like fun. Let us know how it goes and make sure to post your course on here as soon as you get it done.

 

[Sadjo]

That's Awesome!

Some of my favorite courses years ago where the ones with all homemade baskets...some similar to yours.

 

[thrembo]

Looks pretty darn cool to me!

 

[5slamma]

That is awesome. You have combined military with disc golf.

 

[TWO CROWS]

It's da bomb.







ehh, someone had to do it.

 

[jasonc]

awesome basket! Good luck with the course installation. :clap:

 

[Fender088]

That's great ingenuity man. I love recycled baskets. I can say right now though that that basket as it stands now would not be PDGA legal, but you probably already knew that. Adding an outer layer of chains wouldn't hurt anything and a slightly deeper basket might be helpful too.

I would take those baskets though if someone gave me 18 of them and told me to build a course. I like your idea of making different baskets out of the different recycled metals that you find too. Just trying to throw out some suggestions.

 

[Tolbert]

Well done. I'm not sure if I'd go painting it. I like it as is with all the different reused parts easily identified.

 

[NothinButChing]

sweet basket

 

[GLong]

opcorn:

 

[solomon.trenton]

can you take more pics?

 

[esdubya]

Do it!!! I think variation of targets is one direction for growth in this sport. Big and small targets, big targets on short holes, small targets on long holes, vice-versa, etc etc

 

[bcr123psu]

Way to recycle...pretty ingenious. It's too bad you couldn't get the entire bomb body, cut out the middle, and hang the chains from the nose cone. Unless the body wasn't wide enough...in that case, ignore me.

 

[ian.]

great job dude! how long that bad boy take to make?