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Hello. Last year I bought a treated lumber post, 3mm wire and some pots to make a flower pot tower to put in the garden.
I did not make it then, because the ideas I had to attach the pieces of wire to the post did not convince me too much.
Finally I found a way to make it that I want to show in this video. It is very easy to do and the pots hide the screw that attaches the wire to the post.
The truth is I love how this flower pot tower looks in the garden, so I think I will make some more.
First we roll the wire around one pot.
We bend it at 2.5cm from the end.
We roll it again around the pot and we cut it. Some centimeters longer than one turn around the pot.
We press the wire against the pot and we bend the other end to be at a distance of about 2 or 3 millimeters from where we bent it before.
We cut the wire at about 2.5 centimeters from where we bent it.
We roll, cut and bend more wire to make all the pieces of wire we need.
In this case I need six pieces of ring wires like this.
We have to make a couple of small rings, too. But the ends of these are bent at 90ยบ with the ring.
These will go inside the pot that I will put on top of the post. Here you can see how they will go.
We make a mark at 10cm from the top of the post.
At the same distance from the top we make two more marks. The distance from one mark to another mark must be the same. In this case 6.3cm.
We drill a hole to each side of the mark. Each drill is about 2 or 3 millimeters from the other. I use a 3mm drill bit, the same thick of my wire.
We drill all the holes we need.
We make a mark in the middle of two of the places where we drilled, and following that mark we make another mark at 35cm from the top of the post.
The same way we did before, we divide that zone in three equal sections.
And we drill the holes. One to each side of each mark. One hole at 2 or 3 millimeters from the other.
We drill four holes on top of the post, too. We just leave the exact room for the screw we will put there.
Now we can mount the wire rings. We insert the ends into the holes, we drill a guide hole in between and we insert a 3mm thick screw to hold the ring in place.
It is easier if we use the electric driver drill. 24 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:60,000 We mount all the rings.
Now we can see how the pots will look around the post, but we still have to put the flower plants inside.
This post have a sharp end. After some days raining it is easy to drive it into the soft ground.
Now we put one pot on top of the post, we put the small rings and we hold everything with one screw.
Now we can put a plant inside that pot. I have already put the plants inside the rest of the pots.
We put all the pots in the rings and then we can water the plants.
Now we just need to wait until the plants grow and more flowers come out.
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