Aluminum Beams-No Clue:

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I have a couple of 10" aluminum "H" beams which are near eight feet long and the top and bottom flanges are about six inches wide being about 3/4" thick. These were part of a shipping and hoisting cradle for a job I was involved with several years ago and I couldn't scrap them thinking they'd come in use sometime. Trouble is, that job was in 1993 and they are still sitting in my shop holding up a trailer deck load of white oak for one of my trailers.Thinking I could send them down a mill and slab them into an "[" type shape, then round over the edges to make a couple front bumpers for my trucks but other than that; nada. The original thought for them was a semi portable loading dock to be moved with tractor or skid steer with these as the angular beams from the ground to the trailer deck. My truck hauling trailer has hydraulic ramps so the idea was never pursued.  Any ideas for a project these could be used for? I don't do much with aluminum and the shape is so odd don't know if I ever will if it's been this long already......Thanks,SlobPurveyor of intimate unparalleled knowledge of nothing about everything.Oh yeah, also an unabashed internet "Troll" too.....
Reply:Whatever you do, don't get rid of them!You'll find an incredibly useful purpose for them shortly after they're gone. I guarantee it.As me how I know that
Reply:Hello Slob, make yourself some "lightweight" saw-horses. You could probably make the stanchions out of steel and bolt the aluminum beams to those and have yourself some strong and light-to-move-around horses. Just a thought. Best regards, Allanaevald
Reply:Originally Posted by 7A749Whatever you do, don't get rid of them!You'll find an incredibly useful purpose for them shortly after they're gone. I guarantee it.As me how I know that
Reply:Originally Posted by aevaldHello Slob, make yourself some "lightweight" saw-horses. You could probably make the stanchions out of steel and bolt the aluminum beams to those and have yourself some strong and light-to-move-around horses. Just a thought. Best regards, Allan
Reply:Those beams are absolutely useless and probably hazardous, fortunate for you I have a pickup truck and can remove them for you. I'll be over to pick them up this evening.Lincoln PowerMIG 350mpEverlast PowerTIG 210EXT Hypertherm PowerMax45You merely adopted the iron, I was born in it, molded by it.
Reply:@ Slob - you're resting on a gold mine of Al e Mininium.  You should rip a design a la a Wallace Tri-Adjustable Gantry Crane.  www.wallacecranes.com/trialum.htm.  Lightweight, portable, variable, and stowable.Def a crane.Last edited by ManoKai; 06-08-2015 at 01:02 PM."Discovery is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought" - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Reply:Originally Posted by SlobAnd right there is the problem. I never get rid of anything; hence a 7000 sqft building I can't walk a straight line though!!
Reply:Originally Posted by SlobAnd right there is the problem. I never get rid of anything; hence a 7000 sqft building I can't walk a straight line though!!
Reply:Originally Posted by Tim9I'm in total envy..I don't have a building and also don't get rid of anything. That's my dream....having a big building to clutter with my crap.
Reply:Originally Posted by ManoKai@ Slob - you're resting on a gold mine of Al e Mininium.  You should rip a design a la a Wallace Tri-Adjustable Gantry Crane.  www.wallacecranes.com/trialum.htm.  Lightweight, portable, variable, and stowable.Def a crane.
Reply:Could make a really manly swingset out of them
Reply:Oh man, make a light weight gantry. That's what we use on the jobs, and they're awesome. Where are you located? I would buy them from you."Where's Stick man????????" - 7A749"SHHHHHH!! I sent him over to snag that MIC-4 while tbone wasn't looking!" - duaneb55"I have bought a few of Tbone's things unlike Stick-Man who helps himself" - TozziWelding"Stick-man"
Reply:Originally Posted by Tim9I'm in total envy..I don't have a building and also don't get rid of anything. That's my dream....having a big building to clutter with my crap.