A Shot of AG
Seeing Art in Old Farm Parts
Clip: Season 6 Episode 34 | 1m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Ron Meador explains how old machinery and scrap metal became raw material for his art.
Ron Meador looks at old chains, cultivator sweeps and other discarded machinery and sees possibilities. He explains that he never really considered himself an artist, but years of noticing metal creations along the road, stopping at antique shops and collecting old pieces gradually shaped his own creativity and inspired him to give farm junk a second life.
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A Shot of AG is a local public television program presented by WTVP
A Shot of AG
Seeing Art in Old Farm Parts
Clip: Season 6 Episode 34 | 1m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Ron Meador looks at old chains, cultivator sweeps and other discarded machinery and sees possibilities. He explains that he never really considered himself an artist, but years of noticing metal creations along the road, stopping at antique shops and collecting old pieces gradually shaped his own creativity and inspired him to give farm junk a second life.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- I was thinking about this on the way down here as Emily and I were driving, like, you know, the of what we have a lot that goes... So I got the opener disc of the planter, obviously those, and then, you know, like cultivator sweeps, stuff that we replace a lot.
But this looks like this is, I don't know, 20, 30, 50 years old stuff.
- Yeah, it's stuff that you probably don't use on your big planter right now.
- No, no, I don't think we have chains like that.
- I have a lot of square chains and that's old stuff.
- Yeah.
And I mean, did you ever, I mean, before this, did you ever look at yourself as an artist?
- No, I really looked at everybody else's stuff, you know, I thought, "Well, I'd like to do that someday," and out the window of my truck, mostly.
(Rob laughing) Whenever I drive by something in my truck, it's kind of hard to park that 50 some foot trailer someplace.
But I'd pull over and go look at people's things and stop at antique shops and buy junk and load up the sleeper.
A Tractor Built to Remember a Son
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Clip: S6 Ep34 | 1m 24s | Ron Meador shares the story of a handmade tractor created in memory of a neighbor’s son. (1m 24s)
Where Ron Meador Learned to Work With Metal
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Clip: S6 Ep34 | 39s | Ron Meador shares how a difficult childhood year helped lead him toward welding. (39s)
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