Have a giant oil well pump jack beam and bearing. Also have the base for it too. There has to be something cool I can do with a big ol' beam with a huge bearing pivot on the bottom of it. Ridiculous teeter totter? Some kind of cool shop equipment I could make with it? I drug it home because I just had to have it because why the hell not?
The base is 8' wide and 23' long. Would make a hell of a stout bridge or a guy could plate the top and have a ridiculous sized welding table... Would make a good chassis table or rigid base for straightening frames... Currently I need to cut some stuff off the top of it to get it all flush and then I am planning on just stacking other I-beams I have on it for the time being.
Drink their milkshakes
sell for scrap
>bearing
multi-car teeter totter
make a huge hammer and smash things with it
Counterweight for DIY attraction ride.
Start your own six flags.
What do you do for a living that allows you to waste cash and time on these kinds if things??? Completely honest question, ya boi is desperate for a way outnof the rat race.
>What do you do for a living that allows you to waste cash and time on these kinds if things??? Completely honest question, ya boi is desperate for a way outnof the rat race.
Farm and Ranch. I wouldn't say I have much cash and time to waste, but if I see a huge chunk of steel at a good price I will usually buy it. It is one of those assets that has saved me a shit ton of money over the years, Buy steel cheap, hoard it for a while, find perfect use for it and be glad as hell I don't have to pay new steel prices at the time I need it. Most things I instantly have an idea of what I will use them for. This one is a bit different, it'll probably sit for a while until I find the perfect application...
I'm currently in the process of re-locating and organizing a shit-load of steel away from my shop into it's own lineup on the prairie to reduce clutter and make keeping the weeds down easier. Then I will fence around the lineup of steel and another line of decrepit farm equipment (for parts) and let our few head of milk cows graze around it all summer long. This will keep the weeds down and make it much easier to maintain, plus give them some more acreage to graze so maybe I can feed them less.
>make a huge hammer and smash things with it
Hmm... now you have me thinking about some giant seesaw style press with a huge cylinder on the one side and large open area on the other so you can fit huge stuff in there. Like a C frame press only more like how an iron worker press uses the lever action. I do have a giant hydraulic cylinder I've been kicking around too...
Not him but hoarding then using heavy steel is insanely handy. The foundation for my garage is a slab poured inside a 20' square steel beam box that only cost me wiring an old gasser Ford dump truck. No form lumber to buy and my building bolted to the beams. I also use beams beneath my three High Cube container machine/welding/motorcycle shop.
Self and bro hit auctions to buy steel for our projects too. Totally worth it. Wood is for furniture and camp fires.
make TikToks smashing things. preferably toilets and old Tv's, get in on the skibidi toilet tiktok brainrot. you can make money off moronic zoomies
This was my first thought too. Doubt OP can make more money with it doing anything else than this.
>Doubt OP can make more money with it doing anything else than this.
I don't really want to make more money. More money = more taxes to the government I don't want to support.
extract raw energy and wealth from the ground and collect Royalities i guess
Build a huge hydraulic press
Firewood splitter
World's biggest trip hammer.
drill another well and put it to work.
>drill another well and put it to work.
Nobody in this area has oil wells. Probably 100-150 miles away is the nearest "oil field"
Maybe I should start one up. Untapped crude at my feet! But in reality there's probably a good reason why there is nobody doing it.
Make a big trip hammer for forging except instead of a trip use the beam. Make big ass hearth then forge big ass stuffs.
trebuchet
really dangerous log splitter
or a scroll saw (but you would need a bottom mechanismt to .
Had the same idea about the wood splitter, balance it out and attach a split axe on the other end, what could possibly go wrong
mill?