If this is structural. You really need a engineer to tell you. Last thing you want is a floor to fall down on your head. Or worse fall on your Jeep
:qmeparto: Good point! And it’s steel. But it feels like stealing them. I guess we will pass . That’s sort of what Dave said but I hate to pass up free ! But not at the risk of damaging our Jeeps!!
I guess if no one takes it to use ,the company does scrap things. I don’t quite understand how they decide those things, but I told Dave the same thing. But it sounds like they will scrap it themselves. Dave’s brought home other smaller scrap that has added up to over 2,000 already . But I guess big stuff they decide it’s worth it on??
The place I work for was purging a bunch of old tooling, and made a deal with me that if I could empty the scrap bin every Friday, I could have the metal until the supply ran out. I made $5,500 in three months hauling scrap. It was awesome!
Exactly! I’m a believer now. I was mad at first when dave was dragging all this junk home but quickly became a believer when he cashed in the first load. The one thing that needed to stop was his stripping small wires. It was time consuming and ended up not being worth the time . My son has now gotten into scrapping but the learning curve for him is long! Some place talked him into scrapping like 35 TVs. I eventually gave him an ultimatum that the parts of tvs needed to be cleaned up from the back yard of my house , and he ended paying 40.00 or 60.00 to get rid of the plastic. I’m sure he didn’t make that much from the parts he pulled to scrap. But it can be easy money if you have good leads. And you had a great deal going with your employer!
I’d have to ask Dave for sure, but thinking we will pass on them and get some guidance on what to use once we have all the details of the space figured out. Thanks for your input!
They (the people wanting to know if they can use the red iron beams pictured) would have to have some idea of what they want to build, how they want to use those beams whether it be vertically or horizontally, and what that weighs. Pound per foot weights can be found online for all structural steel. Add those up, piece by piece, and whether it be a carport type cover, or a simple weather shed, the overall weight of the structure can be determined. Safety factors such as square feet of surface supporting X feet of wet snow, plus six grandkids on one porch swing, and 37 one gallon hanging flowerpots, and 12 ceiling fans, should also be factored in. That’s where structural engineers come in.
Attached is,the space we plan on building the mezzanine. Im also attaching a picture of what we are looking at doing potentially. The width of our building is 42, so the mezzanine will run that entire length. However, he’s planning on having at least one room below if not two which means there would be support walls also. He wants to have his woodworking stuff upstairs, but that is up for debate.
Kathy, you will still have to find out what the beams will hold, and determine how much overall weight you plan to put on them. “Overkill” should probably be the key phrase when building it. By all means if you can get the beams for free, take them. After looking up what they can hold, I’m sure you can incorporate them into the plan somewhere. Get any and all scrap iron you can. Even small pieces can be used for gussets, base plates, tie backs, and support arms. Pipe, angle iron, couplings, everything. After it’s all said and done you can haul all remaining to the scrap yard and sell it.
If it wasnt my reality, I would be laughing right now. They have now spent the last 45 min. Trying to get it started again to get it off the trailer. It’s so old it has the crank start in the front of the radiator .:nusenuse::nut::llorona:
