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Have most of you seen the Robert Bruno house project ? Sorry if this is redundant, but I did a search, and couldn't find anything about this on "The Welding Web". This Artist spent 23 years welding up this outrageous "house" in Ransom Valley, near Lubbock, TX. Now deceased, (1945-2008) this guy was amazing ! Can you imagine the wear and tear on the welding equipment ! In the Pic's, I think I made out a Miller wire feeder, a Miller and Lincoln MIG, and a HT Plasma cutter. He used the good stuff. Check it out !http://www.robertbruno.com/ Attached Images
Reply:beautiful house
Reply:Really cool piece of art there!  However I dont see today's HOA's approving that!NickoliIf I can't fix it, Its probably not broke.... Yeah Right!~ Damn I let out the factory installed smoke again ! ~
Reply:Very cool looking.  Amazing skills. But in the Texas summer I bet you could use that for a big powder coating oven.
Reply:Originally Posted by Mick120Impressive amount of work .....Doubt I'd call it beautiful tho.....  ...
Reply:BTW, do they have building codes in Texas?
Reply:If govt would leave me to my druthers, i would do something like that. Very cool.Lincoln Power Mig 210MP MIGLincoln Power Mig 350MP - MIG and Push-PullLincoln TIG 300-300Lincoln Hobby-Weld 110v  Thanks JLAMESCK TIG TORCH, gas diffuser, pyrex cupThermal Dynamics Cutmaster 101My brain
Reply:Originally Posted by aDreamSoRealBTW, do they have building codes in Texas?
Reply:it took him so long to build it because he was never happy with the finished product.  And Robert Bruno was obsessed with the way metal looked unfinished, which is why the house has a rust/ aged metal patina to it.  It really is an amazing thing to see.
Reply:I like the inside pict with the arches. The outside, not so much. Looks a heck of a lot better than some work by Frank Gehry and some other architects I've seen..No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan
Reply:The house echoes of Roger Dean illustrations a la "Yes" cover art from the 1970s.  Movement with arching energy "flow" inside and out.  Dig it."Discovery is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought" - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Reply:That looks like a mig gun and a stinger on the ladder, hard to make out. I would sure hate to be the guy to scrap it . Talk about burning rod or wire , Wow. I wonder how '' lightning '' likes that ?
Reply:tetanus shot...
Reply:that place is so sweet!!Thermal Arc 186 AC/DC Tig SystemMillermultimatic 200 with spool gunFisher Norris 124lbs AnvilLiebherr Mining and Liebherr Nenzing Craneshttp://www.etsy.com/shop/ShootAphoto
Reply:Originally Posted by Bostick101tetanus shot...
Reply:Doctor in the house! Attached Images
Reply:The outside from some angles resembles an old hot rod. The house is an amazing feat and looks amazing inside and out!
Reply:I was thinking rat rod mixed with a space ship
Reply:I would have rust colored shirts because I am always running into walls it seems like.I can't even imagine what it would take to build something like that, talk about dedication.---No good deed goes unpunished---
Reply:The whole interior could be clear coated to seal the surface and prevent rust staining anything that touches it, I wonder if its made of cor-ten? Problem with that stuff is if ya paint it, it rusts out, leave it bare and it patinas and won't rust out. A big rail company found that out, had a ton of box cars made out of the stuff hoping it would last forever, then they painted them, all were trash within a few years
Reply:not my shot of whiskey. I would think from a distance it would blend into the hill side and look like a cool rock formation.There are no problems. There are only solutions. It's your duty to determine the right one.Hobart Handler 210Airco 225 Amp MSM Stinger
Reply:Originally Posted by ManoKaiThe house echoes...
Reply:Heat shut me down today, and I saw thisReminds me of the Flying Saucer House on the side of I-70 West of Denver CO.  http://citymtnviews.com/architecture...use/index.htmlYou could see it as you were climbing up into the mountains on the South side of I-70 Westbound.I was working for a Coca Cola distributor back sometime around 1980 or so, and I remember seeing that thing every time I headed up into the hills bound for Glenwood Springs.  It reminded me that there was a real class divide.  The "haves" and "have nots".  I was crawling uphill in that old Binder doing 12mph pulling a load of Coke so that the rich ski tourists could have a mixer for their fancy mixed drinks.  Hell, it was a job I guess.Denver-Glenwood Springs-Denver paid $175 to the driver.  Not too bad back in the day. It paid good because they had a hard time finding experienced mountain drivers. Hell, I was still a kid, and had lottsa hours under my belt in the mountains.  Was a different world back then, I was probably around 24yrs old, but had the experience.  No fancy tests etc., you got in it and drove it.Only problem..........it was mainly a Winter run (it's when the skiers came to the mountains), and not for the faint of heart  The minute you passed Mother Cabrini Shrine just past Denver it was ice and snow for the rest of the trip.Approach to the Eisenhower Tunnel (the tame part of Loveland Pass), Vail Pass, and Glenwood Canyon (before the modern four lane it is now).  AND FLOYD HILL ON THE WAY HOME WHEN YOU GOT WITHIN A FEW MILES OUT OF DENVER.  Lot of trucks went off the road on that hill in the Winter, let alone in the Summer.  Was a killer back in the day, and probably still is.I seem to rember the only stop along the way was at Palasade.  Gas station with big enough parking lot for an 18 wheeler.  Sandwiches from the refrigerator caseThe run back to Denver was after sundown, and you'd see the lights from the fancy hotels at Keystone.  There you were freezing your *** off in that crap cabover (the heaters in those things are marginal at best, and just plain suck when coming down a long hill and the engine cools down), and those folks were all warm in their rooms.  I believe it's what made me a Democrat"Any day above ground is a good day"http://www.farmersamm.com/
Reply:Originally Posted by ThorsHammernot my shot of whiskey. I would think from a distance it would blend into the hill side and look like a cool rock formation.
Reply:The interior reminds me of the interior of the submarine "The Nautilus" from the 1954 Walt Disney movie "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" starring Kirk Douglas and James Mason.Last edited by katana1150; 08-06-2013 at 08:25 PM.Reason: phones dang auto correct choosing wrong wordsLincoln Ranger8 Hobart Handler 135Hobart Hefty CC/CVIronworkers Local #712