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The most resilient and strong building materials
It turns out that rebar is more useful than I ever thought. It had never really come up before, because it’s not like there are big piles of rebar laying around for people to use. It is a specialty product used mostly in construction and for laying cement… or so I thought. I was lucky […]
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I can’t believe I found all this wire!
My buddy Gus and I have been haunting the local junkyard and scrap yard for the last few years. I am in construction, and he rebuilds old cars, so we are both constantly searching for old parts we can reuse. They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and I can tell you that […]
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Something dangerous buried in the yard
I was playing Red Light Green Light in my backyard the other night, and one of my kids tripped over something buried in the dirt. It was a little piece of iron bar jutting an inch through the soil. I guess all the heavy rains we have gotten recently leached away some of the topsoil, […]
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Making sales and turning rebar into cash
I am an IT specialist, with a focus on social media and digital marketing. Recently I landed a job with a construction company which is unlike anything else I’ve ever done. The guys who run this company are very nice, but very old men who are stuck in a previous era. Neither of the brothers […]