Tom Strohmaier shows off the farmer scything wheat sculpture he created from old buggy and combine parts. The work, which is painted in Washington State University’s official crimson, has more than 10,000 individual welds, Strohmaier said.The individual heads of wheat are made from segments of chain taken from old combines.
March 4, 2022
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Lind Artist reinvents the wheels…
LIND — Tom Strohmaier never set out to be an artist. “My father-in-law used to restore buggies, horse-drawn buggies, sleighs and wagons,” Strohmaier said. “And when he died in 2014, he left me this huge pile of (stuff)” The retired farmer pauses as he stands over a pile of rusting cast-iron and steel parts — springs, spindles, axles — sitting behind his home in Lind...