"When I was a kid, I was always messing with something, you know," he said. Over the past several years, the 73-year-old has been turning pieces of scrap material into lawn ornaments.

MAPLETON, Minn. — Dick and Marion Sonnek’s farm yard is decorated in lawn ornaments. The Mapleton couple make lawn and garden ornaments out of scrap metal. "It really has been a hobby that has ...

A $14,000 jumble sale find turned into millions of dollars for a man who’d been thwarted in his attempts to turn a quick profit by selling the tiny ornament to scrap metal dealers.

Start your own smelting business to make money from scrap metal. Since smelting involves heating metals to ... it's possible to smelt metal into products. Gates, hood ornaments and door knockers ...

In 2020, he began experimenting with turning scrap metal into small ornaments, and by 2023—after being inspired by short videos—he officially began creating his line of creative mini iron figures.

FERTILE, Minn. - Growing up on a farm north of Fertile, David Fuglseth would often tinker around. "When I was a kid, I was always messing with something, you know," he said. Over the past several ...