That brought me down some interesting Wikipedia journey, this former farm machine repairman built a whole collection of Whirligigs for two decades after he retired:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u89j6-FI6fk

He was hard-worker his whole and he couldn't sit around all day, so he spent 6-days a week (except Sundays) building some really creative "kinetic art" from old machine parts.

The town of Wilson, NC has turned it into a park after he died:

https://www.wilsonwhirligigpark.org/