Dish Makes Great Gazebo

Dish Makes Great Gazebo AG WORLD 32-3-24 Looking for a way to use an old mega-size satellite dish? Why not build a gazebo for the yard? Don Kuntz built one about 10 years ago, and it has handled Minnesota winters just fine. "My brother gave it to me just to get rid of it," he recalls. "I had seen one used for a gazebo before and decided to make my own." Kuntz built from the top down. He hung the dish in his shed and built a framework to hold it up. He used 8-ft. 2 by 4's for the uprights and treated 2 by 4's for the floor. Each upright consists of two 2 by 4's butted at their inside edges and angled to match the round edge of the 8-ft. dish. A set of wheels on one side let him move it as needed. Kuntz bought decorative plastic fencing and hung one strip just below the dish edge with a 2-ft. wide strip around the base. Plastic corner gingerbread pieces dress up the low cost gazebo even more. "I've had it up for about 10 years now and it still looks great," he says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Don Kuntz, 19328 State Highway 104, Glenwood, Minn. 56334 (ph 320 634-3212; dmkuntz@ usfamily.net).

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