You know a lot of towns don't want you to have a 24-foot metal giant on your house .
It's frowned upon in certain areas.
My name is George Edgren. I live in Wild Rose Wisconsin.
I build pretty much whatever anybody wants me to build.
If you want it done, if there's a will there's a way.
It's like a small metal art park.
You don't have to buy anything you can just walk through and enjoy it
or if you like a specific piece you can just purchase it.
When I first started out as a kid I worked in construction with my father and grandfather a lot and
then through the years I knew I was into art a lot but uh you're not gonna get
a full-time career doing art so, I went into school for metal fabrication and
I never would have dreamed that this is where it would have turned out.
Okay, the elephant started off as a carnival ride rotting out in somebody's yard
and I found it and brought it home.
I repainted it and it actually used to drive around, the kids loved it.
I built it just because I thought it was hilarious.
I guess I always knew that I enjoyed building things ever since I could hold
any kind of tool in my hand I was pretty much helping my father.
One of my parents favourite stories was my dad gave me a sanding block and a piece of wood and
told me to get out of his way and I was real little so next thing you know
I'm sanding his brand-new paint job on a Ford Bronco that he had just bought. (laughs)
This specific piece started when a friend of mine gave me a front end of a
motorcycle. The front fairing specifically, I'm like that needs to be a dragon.
The eyes are actually where the headlights go.
This motorcycle is called death.
Specifically because when I had it I was actually riding with
a buddy of mine and he actually died on his bike when he was next to me.
so then that was my way of showing how I grieved.
My best pieces are always the most emotional ones.
Something inside you that just says that it needs to be built.
I just did anything and everything that I could to make sure
I had every detail the way that I wanted it.
I made the pegs to look like hands so it actually holds your feet.
The shifter arm is actually a hand so every time you're shifting it's
like you're shaking hands with your friend kind of thing.
When I build everything and nothing can be normal so instead of normal hand controls with on/off,
"Life" is on "Death" is off and "Scream" is the actual starter ignition.
That way you can't steal it. The odds of knowing what that means are slim to none.
When I was building the coffin I needed to make sure that anybody could actually
fit in the coffin so I measured one of the biggest guys that I knew just to make sure.
So he tells everybody that he knows that this is his custom coffin.
Every skull on here I had actually done with a TIG welder.
A few friends of mine took me off to the side one day and I like you know (told me) "not too many people can sculpt with a welder.
Sculpting in general it can be a feat but then you can sculpt with a welder."
and then I yeah that's that is pretty neat I guess when I think about it.
But The Coolest Thing I've Ever Made was a 24 foot robot replica in my driveway.
So this is the big guy. I just built it because I thought it would be a neat piece for everybody to enjoy.
It took me two months and I worked full-time.
I would work anywhere in between 4 o'clock and 9 o'clock when it got dark.
I actually had to build a scaffolding around it and then I had to strong arm all the pieces
up there by hand I just wrap a chain around each piece and pull it up.
There's a couple close calls but overall and made it up.
A lot of people ask me if it was made a hundred percent of car parts and I tried
to but there's not enough structural metal and most car frames to give you that kind of structure.
Most of the car is there. The doors are his stomach,
The front end would be his chest plate. Tires are his shoulders.
The feet are doors, well mostly doors,
I have got a lot of sheet metal that I had put on it myself, I just quickly formed.
I've got hydraulic lines running a little here and there to make it look like it was all functional
because that would be very cool but take a lot of money to make it functional.
A lot of people have asked me if I could make it functional and like
I don't make enough money but if I do, it'll be one of my first priorities.
A friend of mine told me one day "You know George you're living the dream"
And I laughed at her and how do you figure and she says:
"Well you're making art and you're selling it. You're living the dream."
You know a lot of towns don't want you to have a 24-foot metal giant on your house.
It's frowned upon in certain areas.
I think most of the neighbours are actually they think it's pretty cool.
so usually people are pretty decent with me having
a pile of junk in the yard for brief moment of time...sometimes a month.
A lot of people ask me if the big robot is for sale?
And everything's for sale of course if the right price comes along. You let it go, you build another one.
My 24 foot robot replica that I built in my driveway is the Coolest Thing I've Ever Made.
My name is Guy, I'm the creator of the show. Thanks so much for watching!
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