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]

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]

:popcorn:

[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?

[militarybaskets]

[QUOTE=TWO CROWS;680516]It's da bomb.



DAAAAA Bomb

[militarybaskets]

This basket took me about two days with a little help from my gramps. It is two identical blue fins put together, metal 30mm ammo boxes as the basket, and a 50 gallon oil drum on the top with old rusty snow tire chains hanging down. The reason my chains are a little light is because I haven't been able to find more and I need enough for my second basket :) IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS TO WORN OUT OLD TIRE CHAINS PLEASE TELL ME BECAUSE THEY WORK GREAT! or something military that could pass as the chains???

I could only get my hands on the fin part of the bomb because the top part is where most of the explosive was and had a massive weight in the nose cone. In my first drawings before I got any material I had put a nose cone on the top of the basket. I hope that I can find more different materials at the base and museum to use and make many different looking baskets.

Once I get my second basket built I will post some more pictures of both of them, and I am really happy everyone likes it

[militarybaskets]

PAINT - There are a few reasons why I am going to paint these first two. First the slogan of the town here in Hawthorne, NV is America's Patriotic Home. So red, white and blue are a shoe in. Second the military paint has kept mostly all the rust off of these parts, not including the chains, and I dont want rust to occur where my welds and grind spots are.

[lokirising]

The chains look like they can catch pretty well.

[ballingbrando]

Tire chains work great!! Rust is a factor if your picky but it should paint up nice

[gj pain]

Make 18 of them and make a course. I wish I could contribute something like that to disc golf.

I agree that a second ring of chains looks like it would help, even if it does catch fine now.

[punahou80]

That's cool, Bro. Use what you got and you got talent and creativity. :clap::thmbup:

I'd like to know the pros and cons of horizontal chains in "regulation" baskets.

Can we rig up some live ordnance to go off in the middle of that lake when someone hits and Ace?!

[Wally]

I love how the post is made out of a missle.

[5slamma]

I love how the post is made out of a missle.

I didn't even notice that before. Now I see the fins below. Sidewinder + Disc basket = complete awesomeness

[militarybaskets]

Thanks guys! I am gaining a lot of support from people here in town to put in at least nine holes for now. I am currently working on another basket that is about the same but with regular chains. I tryed everything to get old snow chains so it could be a course of recycled materials but cant find them.
The chains on it now catch pretty well but if you hit chains from 30 yards or more it isn't gonna stay down. I will post some more pictures when I get my other baskets finished and painted up

[Greenskeeper]

Really cool! good luck! At our course we have a few home baskets. They just add to the game! Just no live ones OK!

[Disc Dog]

From an old military munitions guy that is a dream come true.

[JMONEY]

That is great keep building them. I'm sure that the sport will grow on people out there simply for the fact of the remote location. Any DG'r would love to be blessed with the sight of a basket after driving on Hwy 95.

[The dude on the bike]

PENALTY for pole players (base)

[Connor Jones]

Those baskets are the BOMB....

[basketcase15]

do they DOA? (detonate on ACE) cuz that would be just my luck !!!

[basketcase15]

ohh and this is the coolest homemade ive seen in a while!!!!! NICEEEEEE

[militarybaskets]

Thanks guys!! I am getting three painted up and finished within the next month. Then by Earth day set them up in the park beside the other festivities and try to gain more intrest in the community and sell a few discs to fund the project.

Also I have been trying to make this course possibly affiliated with the ordanance museum for a number of reasons. First I think it could be a good relationship to inform people of what they are playing on. Also discs could be sold with thier stamp on it.... The artistic side of me wants to get a bunch of different looking ordanace and make a different looking basket for each hole.

Thanks again for the support and I hope to have a course on highway 95 for you guys soon

[tmahan]

I like your appoach, good luck with getting affiliated. Anybody here live near Aberdeen MD?

[militarybaskets]

This is my personal basket I just finished up.