"Lazy-Susan" SFG ???

*whispering* Do it Acara...do it...you know you want to....

*giggle*

LOL I've read your post for what it is: an engineer thinking out loud, with more money than time on his hands! Being the person you might hand off your drawings to, to make the assembly a reality, I say: Don't Do It, Man! The cost per square foot of growing space will be...well...A LOT! I have an old trailer axle that I have considered cutting off one wheel assembly and burying the axle vertically in concrete to make a lazy susan. Is it do-able, yes. Practical, no...IMHO.

But, brainstorming is fun, so...a cable spool on swivel casters would be cheap, easy, and practical.

Here's a simple idea, made from fan housings with dead motors. I plant cool crops on the shady north side so there's no reason to rotate it.




An after thought: if you build your lazy susan, why not put a geared down motor on it to turn the assembly for sunshine, and to have a stationary water sprinkler?!

Boffer, that looks for all the world like an old-timey hardware bin. You know, the one that sat in the back of the store near the glass-cutting counter, and held all the nuts and bolts and screws that the store sold in bulk. (usually a stack of little paper bags laying on top of the hardware to scoop them into, and a pencil on a string to write the part #)

Which would make a KILLER AWESOME SFG -- heavy duty, has the rotation mechanism already included, and has bins deep enough to actually grow something. AND had casters on the bottom so you could move it (assuming you had a hard flat surface to set it on)

Old-timey bins for old timers! My two favorite, independent hardware stores still use them. There's just something about getting pin pricked a hundred times while trying to get a pound of nails into a paper bag that really appeals to me!

I agree they would make an awesome planter. I better talk to the owner who has been threatening to remodel/upgrade, to see about first dibs! Thanks for the idea.

I bet one of those would give acara's HOA a fit!

You notice I'm enough of an old-timer to recognize one when I see it! (That plus 15 years of visiting every hardware store in every wide spot in the road in the eastern half of the country)

Actually, if you planted those to cascading-type flowers, they'd be flat-out gorgeous. I can see purple and pink Wave petunias and fuschias tumbling out of a big tower like that, so how can you outlaw something that pretty? The heads of the HOA board would just go *foom* as they tried to sort that one out.

i think if you have the time and money and desire - go for it.

or just use those 12inch square planters and put them on casters and wheel around your square whereever you want/whenever you want.

steve - nice stack of plantings!

and a :yeah that: to what lafee said!

LaFee wrote:You notice I'm enough of an old-timer to recognize one when I see it! (That plus 15 years of visiting every hardware store in every wide spot in the road in the eastern half of the country)

Actually, if you planted those to cascading-type flowers, they'd be flat-out gorgeous. I can see purple and pink Wave petunias and fuschias tumbling out of a big tower like that, so how can you outlaw something that pretty? The heads of the HOA board would just go *foom* as they tried to sort that one out.

Howdy Folks:

Well now, how about cascading strawberries to go with the flowers? Strawberries put out runners that have daughters that will readily root when they reach down to new soil so you could plant in the top bin and watch as they moved on down over time. OK, OK I'm nuts over strawberries, at least until something else catches my fancy.

God Bless, Ward and Mary.

Silly me! I should have realized the O.P. was rhetorical. You've probably got the materials spec'ed and sourced by now!

Acara,

I adore your idea! If anyone can pull it off, it's you!

Actually I was thinking to equip it with a CNC-turret & hardwire it into a laptop which would then cause it to rotate in tandem with the optimum lunar cycle affraid

Should be okay with the HOA, as long as I paint it white, eh?

OMG. I feel so sorry for your wife.