Click HERE to see the complete tutorial and plenty of pictures.
A dainty chime can be assembled and hung the same day. Grab a few handfuls of pennies, some fishing line, a stick, and a drill bit. The rest is up to you. Add beads, sparkling things, copper adornments, these are just a few ideas. Although the pennies do not have to be pressed, they do make a lovely sound. They can otherwise simply be drilled, and suspended.
Come along, let’s have fun while making a treasure for the garden, front porch, deck, or window. Hang one from a limb of a tree in your back yard, front yard, or both. Make them as gifts. Start now, and by the time the holidays arrive, you'll have plenty to give away.
No doubt, you're wondering what the sound of pennies in a chime might sound like, so I've provided a video for you, as well.
That is a very frowned upon practice and possibly illegal and dangerous for the train, passengers and the person placing the pennies on the tracks. I am surprised anyone would still be doing this.
ReplyDeleteIt is definitely illegal if there’s no railroad/roadway/sidewalk crossing. By federal law, it is trespassing.
ReplyDeleteNow if you were merrily walking along and crossing the tracks on a public roadway, and if a penny “accidentally fell out” of the hole in your pants’ pocket, then that is another matter.
Some stations have a single platform while some have multiple platforms with a pedestrian crossing. A single platform would require the penny to somehow land or roll from the platform down to the rail by itself without a human reaching down. The pedestrian crossing would be the same situation as a roadway crossing.
With so many cell phone cameras and more security cameras, be wary that should you be caught on camera, the railroad 1. may have a Public Affairs or Friends of the Railroad Facebook-like Railfan group which films, monitors, and reports trespassing and road traffic incursions and 2. may use this to either defend itself in a lawsuit or prosecute repeat offenders for fear of being accused of not preventing one (or more) potentially dangerous situation(s).