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Scrap-metal art fills yard of hillside home

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photo Hayman built this 30-foot-tall swing/ windmill sculpture.

In his job as an inspector with CTI Engineers Inc., Rossville’s Les Hayman has to watch people work.

When he’s done working, he’s done watching.

Hayman’s two-acre hillside home is full of his handiwork, from an 1865 log cabin he bought, disassembled and rebuilt in his yard to workable art he created from scrap metal.

The Ohio native blames it on his constitution.

“I’ve always been active,” he said. “I think it’s a lost art. People always used to work with their hands. If your hands are busy, you think better.”