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So, after all the Fuss (tm), I was talking to one of the neighbors who lives across the street. I was telling him how I was going to put up a wrought iron fence on my sideyard (for various reasons) and I mentioned how I liked the fence that one of his houses had (he owns a few houses on my street).
Out of the blue he tells me that it was from an old hotel that got demolished some 35 odd years ago and that he installed that wrought iron fence. Not only that, but he had some leftover pieces that had been sitting next to the garage since then. My ears perked up upon hearing that and I was thrilled when he asked me if I would be interested in using any of the scrap pieces he had. He said that he had no use for it and that he'd been thinking of throwing it all away, but he hadn't because it was really heavy (and being mostly solid iron, you can imagine why that would be the case).
Last Friday, I had the worker that was helping me with the landscaping take our work truck to the house (all 3 houses down) and we loaded up a lot of really really heavy wrought iron. It took a while to load and unload but eventually we got it unloaded and after a lot of thinking, measuring and wrestling the pieces around the yard, I decided that:
Which makes for a very nice freebie that I hadn't really planned on having anytime soon. It'll be a big help when my folks come to visit (they're definitely getting to the point where those things matter a lot more) and they'll make the whole entrance look even nicer (once they're sanded and painted a nice shiny black).
Plus I get to do some welding and stuff (which is always fun). I can't wait to get them installed.
Out of the blue he tells me that it was from an old hotel that got demolished some 35 odd years ago and that he installed that wrought iron fence. Not only that, but he had some leftover pieces that had been sitting next to the garage since then. My ears perked up upon hearing that and I was thrilled when he asked me if I would be interested in using any of the scrap pieces he had. He said that he had no use for it and that he'd been thinking of throwing it all away, but he hadn't because it was really heavy (and being mostly solid iron, you can imagine why that would be the case).
Last Friday, I had the worker that was helping me with the landscaping take our work truck to the house (all 3 houses down) and we loaded up a lot of really really heavy wrought iron. It took a while to load and unload but eventually we got it unloaded and after a lot of thinking, measuring and wrestling the pieces around the yard, I decided that:
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Which makes for a very nice freebie that I hadn't really planned on having anytime soon. It'll be a big help when my folks come to visit (they're definitely getting to the point where those things matter a lot more) and they'll make the whole entrance look even nicer (once they're sanded and painted a nice shiny black).
Plus I get to do some welding and stuff (which is always fun). I can't wait to get them installed.
happy