Is the water container part of the setup?
If you want to make some kind of water purification system of that size, it would make sense to have some steel structures to hold the weight of the large containers.
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Agent641@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A local man built a bunker with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and food in preparation for Y2K apocalypse. When it didn’t materialise, he eventually died and my dad bought some old steel things at estate auction. We cannot for the life of us figure out what these things were for.
Some sort of rack? Too short for hanging meat. Made of steel. About 5 of them. It’s really been bugging us.
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EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Planning ahead for Mad Max situation, just find a working big rig and start welding those parts on wherever, slap on some fetish gear and you’re ready for war.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They look like frames for either a shell of something or potentially as forms for concrete pouring (doubt that though).
So they probably go together to make the skeleton of some kind of shelter or vehicle.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Why did your Dad buy them, if he didn’t know what they were? They’re big and bulky, can’t stack, can’t store them, etc. If I brought those home, especially with no plan, not even knowing what they were, my wife would murder me.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not OP nor user Agent641, but hell, if I ever learned anything from my late father, it’s this…
That, my friend, is perfectly good stock metal material, just takes a hacksaw to cut it apart. Reuse the metal however you see fit…
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well he’s already divorced, collects all sorts of weird shit, and he has a giant scrapyard full of steel junk. Ancient bus from the interwar period. Pile of garage doors but no garage. I don’t pretend to know why.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Coming from my late father, that’s all perfectly good stock metal material, once the welded sections are cut apart into desired lengths anyways. Can be reused for whatever purposes, plus the material probably came way cheaper, if not perhaps free, compared to purchasing raw stock from the metal foundry…
Mesophar@pawb.social 3 days ago
Doesn’t sound like they are actually using it. How much stock metal do you need to store if your consumption of the stock metal is (near) zero? Don’t think that theory holds weight here.