1J20.25 Twelve Nails On One

1J20.25 Twelve Nails On One

A technique to balance ten landscape spikes on the head of a single upright spike.

The point of a long nail is embedded in a small square of MDF. Two horizontal nails are balanced across the head of the standing nail. Between the two horizontal nails, ten more nails have been sandwiched. Starting from the point nearest the viewer, the first nail's head sticks out to the left. The body of the nail crosses the center point of the assembly and sticks out to the right, hanging at an acute angle with respect to the vertical. The second nail's head sticks out to the right. The body of the nail crosses the center point of the assembly and sticks out to the left, hanging at an acute angle with respect to the vertical. The nails continue to alternate down the length of the sandwiching horizontal nails, each hanging downward and outward. The entire assembly of twelve nails is thus balanced on head of a single, central, upstanding nail. The assembly looks a little like an old-fashioned rotary hay rake.

Location: B2-2