Good Question: What to Do with this Old Antenna?

With the switch from analog to digital TV, there will be plenty of antennas headed for the landfills. I actually found this in the corner of my yard, mangled and overgrown with brush but the question remains: What can I do with this heap of aluminum and plastic?

This section, pictured above, might make a good trellis for some beans or perhaps a ladder into a chicken coop hen house (another one of my green dreams).

These folks at Gardenweb used an old antenna as a birdhouse stake:

Does anyone have a good reuse of an old antenna?

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We had one on our house when we bought it. We took it apart and put it in the recycling bin.

posted by aaakid on June 5th 2009 at 2:24pm
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Scrap metal recycler?

posted by dsgnomite on June 5th 2009 at 2:31pm
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We have several (don't ask) and found out that the guy we sell our cans to will also buy them.

posted by akbuilt on June 5th 2009 at 2:38pm
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Since you're looking for ideas, I'll scrap the 'recycle' comment, two that come to mind:

* use sections as a trellis to grow tomatoes or morning glories in your garden (by the time the plant fills in the original use for the trellis, an antenna, will no longer be visible). If you have broken sections, or pieces, you can lash them together with twine and they'll last a season or two in the garden depending on your weather.

* take the 'spokes' apart and make a sunray / sunburst mirror

posted by Rucy on June 6th 2009 at 10:09am
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