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over_clox@lemmy.world 4 days agoComing 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 4 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.
over_clox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You never met a hoarder have you?
They probably caught a hella fat deal on the material, but the deal might have come with the catch of ‘You gotta take it all for this cheap deal’ sort of thing from some construction site or something like that.
My late father ran across such deals sometimes. Hell, he picked up an entire Pizza Hut freezer panel assembly. And I don’t mean like a kitchen freezer, I mean like their main back freezer, enough material that he literally built a fucking storage shed out of it.
Mesophar@pawb.social 3 days ago
That isn’t storing stock metal, then, it’s just hoarding. It doesn’t matter the condition, or purpose, or any deals. It’s just accumulating -stuff-. It possibly being used for xyz is just superfluous
I guess “hoarding” is the answer I expected, not (they think) it can potentially be useful.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Meh, you don’t know true hoarders then. My dad was the type to pick up a washing machine that got hit by a truck off the side of the road, if it even looked like it had compatible valves, bolts, control knobs, switches, whatever.
Daddy collected lots of junk, but it wasn’t all exactly junk either. He’d pick something up one day, having no idea what the hell he would eventually use it for, but sure enough, 3~10 years later, we’d find a use for the stuff.
A lot of the scrap metal he found (pipes, pipe clamps, sheets of tin, canvas) went unused for years, just sitting on his property, until he got enough material to build his tool shop (different shop than the Pizza Hut freezer panel storage shed).
I dunno about what OP has there, but I do know that there’s two types of hoarders, those that intend to make use of their finds eventually, and those that are just straight up obsessed with collecting junk they’ll never use.
Daddy was the planning hoarder, and if he was still here, he’d say OP apparently inherited a hell of a load of useful material. And I’d say go ahead and saw all those weld joints out, stock the long pieces in the garage or wherever, and scrap the welded cuts at a scrapyard for a few extra dollars.
Either way, whether OP has any use in the material or not, you’ll get quite a bit more money for it at the scrapyard if the stuff is already cut up into sections that’ll fit into their big boy scrap bins.