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    Posted 2 years ago

    AnythingOb…
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    NO, this isn't a showing of my city provided trash dumpsters. Or at least it isn't *intended* to be (though I guess it sorta really is too anyway...sorry...?) but instead, the chunks of iron pipe and fittings that now surround said green bins near the end of my driveway -- a year or five after I got them, and when in fact, it finally occurred to me that I could use 'em for that and reassembled/put them there, instead of being unceremoniously and randomly piled behind the house where they (and more pcs) landed right after I brought 'em all home, ultimately from a much larger blue construction dumpster at a big church where I had been spending the better part of a summer doing a big new organ project inside, which itself was just a small part of other major construction/remodeling/etc they also had going on that summer at the same time. But nevermind...

    These are parts of an iron railing that was part of a larger/longer one in all, that surrounded an exterior concrete stairwell that went down from ground level to mechanical rooms under the church auditorium proper, maybe also originally serving as a 'fire escape' route from that basement, which actually did have other larger and finished 'public areas' within most of the rest of it.

    And all that part of the place was getting majorly re-done then too, and that particular stairway was due to be jackhammered and erased from existence, and right before that started to happen somebody with a sawzall cut all the old railing apart and away from all its mountings and dragged the pieces to the dumpster one morning.

    And they didn't lay *there* for more than a couple hrs at most, before I (on a typical smoke-break) noticed, backed my own truck up to the dumpster, and dragged them all into *IT* instead...?? <LOL>

    At the time I actually considered the idea of trying to rescue a few of the flanges and whatnot stubs left on the building for the jackhammer, but it ultimately didn't seem like it'd be worth the effort to do so... ;-)

    All the pipes are a little over 2" diameter, their connecting fittings are known as "ball crosses" (or elbows, or whatever) for the probably obvious reason that they were designed to look prettier than typical plumbing parts made to connect pipes together that actually need to contain water pressure, which these certainly would not do.

    -------edit the next day-------
    Oops, I should have added that the building itself (thus these former parts of it) is ca.1950's in age...sorry I forgot to do that... :-)

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    1. Manikin Manikin, 2 years ago
      Good idea !
    2. AnythingObscure AnythingObscure, 2 years ago
      THANKS vetraio50, Alfie21, Cisum, dav2no1, fortapache, Manikin, & hotairfan for your <love it>s!

      Mani, I appreciate your comment too, because it accidentally really **was** a "good idea" on my part to reassemble and put the old railing parts out there around the trash cans -- because the ground at that spot in the yard is slightly too sloping for the stupid things to sit there reliably on their own, but it is also the only place out there where they can really sit all the time without otherwise constantly annoying my 'decorative sensibilities' (as unusual as those may be...) about what I want my house to look like, and now the railing (even though several inches shorter than it used to be) can just sit there around 'em and hold 'em up securely in place. PROBLEM SOLVED -- no more randomly having to pick up and re-load one after an overnight storm with the wrong gust of wind in it came thru...???!!!
      :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

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