Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 5, 2016 12:20:08 GMT -5
OK rockpickerforever , I would have started a bidding war w/you on both of those shelves. I would have capped at $150.
So you are lucky I was not around.
I would have bid against my wife on either, and we have done it before.
I urge people to go to scrap yards to get heavy shelving. It has become very rare and loft dwellers are picking such shelves up for indoor furniture.
I welded up a couple of dozen of these curio shelves out of rusty water pipe and angle iron.
Sold real well, pain in the butt to weld though. Note the deep pits in the pipes(swamp induced rust, jamesp patented process).
One inch steel balls welded as finials and to protect parachuters from getting impaled.
That is so thoughtful of you to protect parachuters (parachutists?) from impaling them selves, lol. The ball finials look good.
We don't have the scrapyards around here we once did. So it's the swap meet for me! That way, I can buy the shelving units already made, just have to haul them home.
Irritated that I did not purchase those shelves Jean.
The rollers are convenient. They are hard rubber, and so far, have been taking the weight without flattening. Although, I suppose that will happen with time. Hope I figure out where it needs to go before that happens. Have been able to move it a couple times already, even with all the rock on it!
Can't believe Jean bought those shelves out from under me.
I don't think hauling it back to GA would have been cost effective, James.
mrrockpicker seems to think that male sellers at the swap meet tend to give the gals better prices. He'll even find something he is interested in, and hand it to me to ask the price. I guess it works most of the time .