Bicycle wheels

I used some bike rims to make a tunnel house hutch for my chicken.
It was just a wooden frame made from 1" x 12"(inch) wood about 6 foot long. I cut the rims in half in a cresent shape and used some screws to screw the rim to the top inside of the two wooden sides to form the 'tunnel' house shape. Then I added some more 1" x 12" to each end to make it sturdy.

Then I wrapped a length of chicken wire over the roof, down the length of the hutch and used nail/staples to fix the chicken wire onto the wooden sides.

For some weird reason, the spacing of the bike spoke holes was exactly the same as the spacing of the chicken wire hexagons, so I just threaded them into the spoke holes and wrapped it around itself again.
The width of the chicken wire roll was the exact size for the radius of the bike rim too. weird.

I showed it to my neighbour, who was impressed. He saw the potential of using one as a garden 'cloche'. (we had some fun with that word).

Its the sorta thing that after making one, you know exactly how to make the second one in 1/4 the time.

I used a angle grinder to cut the spokes. The learning curve taught me to cut the spokes near the centre of the wheel, not just inside the rim...
If you don't, you end up with a dangerous looking - eye spoking, mass of sharp bike spokes radiating out from the wheel hub.

The spokes, with the nut on them, my neighbour used as marker pegs for his vege garden. Neat idea.
Hes a retired Teacher, Scrapmetal worker, Kiwi - Vietnam vet. Great neighbour too.