Praying Mantis #3

This is the third in my Praying Mantis series.  They keep getting bigger and better.

This one is about 8 feet long.  The body is made out of 2-3/8" pipe that used to be the scaffold for my satellite dish.  The face and eyes are cut out of truck-bed steel, and the four back legs are sucker rod.  Front legs are cut from quarter-inch steel plate.  The bare metal's been allowed to rust.  Strike that -- I was afraid it would rust too much, and so I coated it with Rust-Oleum rust primer.  So it's still the same color, but more uniform and will last longer.

He's leaning forward, facing to the right.  We've got him bolted to a ten-foot long cedar log, facing up the driveway.

This is my great-granddaughter Aubrey with the "Big Bug" she's in love with.  She'd run down after school every day while I was putting it together and ask if she could go see it.  She watched me using the torch to heat-bend the legs so they'd attach to the log one day, and her eyes got real big and she said, "Tooooooooool."  (Turn that T into a C and you'll get it.)  Picture's put in so you can see how big the bug is, compared to a four-year old.

Cost is $3,000, and shipping is like buying a sailboat:

You gotta come and get it yourself.