funny re-bar

Was working at a house today and for to noticing the corner of the porch was broken, thus exposing the rebar. I guess I never thought of using a shotgun for that purpose.

Better cover that up. I think you found Jimmy Hoffa.

Thats a heck of a way to treat Damascus steel LOL !

maybe it was shot out/wore out, that has to be one of the most unique things I've ever seen in concrete or exposed when doing demolitiion.

oh great! Now you'll need a background check!

Years ago, I used old lightning rods for rebar. Wish I had them now. They were copper. I still drive over them occasionally in my old shop.
Bet they didn't rust like the new rebar.
Richard in NW SC

Had a house once that had some coal mixed in with the crete.

A chunk of concrete popped off my foundation this winter,old sickle for rebar!!

I must be blind, I don't see it, sorry

I didn"t see it either the first 35 times I walked by. It is just the ends of a double barrel shotgun sticking out of the concrete. It still has the bead in between the two barrels even.

Thats a far better use than the libs buy back programs!

Fella once told me 'you can learn a lot about a family if you tear down their chimney'. It's amazing how many liquor bottles went it as fill.

I tore down a silo and broke up the round base and they had used old horse shoes laid in all around for the rebar. A lot of horse shoes! I have used old bed springs for flat work. Waste not or now days recycle.

I have busted up lots of concrete but have never found anything that cool for rebar.
Years ago did a job for the City of Charleston clearing out underground obstructions so piling could be driven for a parking garage downtown. We had been there for several weeks on "time and materials".It was killing the engineer over the job. One day He comes by the job and I tell him all we have left to do is get rid of this last chunk of concrete and we will be finished. This thing was 6ft X 6ft X 8ft thought to be a steam engine mount. We had dug it up and rolled it out of the hole just sitting out on the job. All we were going to do was slide it onto the lowboy and haul it to the dump if He would have been 30 minutes later it would have been gone. He sees it and says leave it alone they had guys with jack hammers and they would take care of it. So I asked him "are you sure?" He says yes yall are done here. OK. A couple of weeks later I get a call could I take my big loader and roll the chunk of concrete over. I went there and they had rounded the edges off the block off. It was laced with railroad track for reinforcement. In all that time they had hardly made a dent in it.
Ron

Years ago dad had poured a porch floor and used an old bed springs for reinforcement. When I tore it out I had to get a jack hammer to tear it up. No pieces bigger than a silver dollar. Oh, and to add to the misery he had used river run sand, which as you know is twice as hard to break up as sand and rock aggregate.

I've seen cycle bars in old foundations too. In the 1970's we used worn out roller chains to reinforce foundation corners.

(quoted from post at 14:58:05 04/19/13) Was working at a house today and for to noticing the corner of the porch was broken, thus exposing the rebar. I guess I never thought of using a shotgun for that purpose.

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Whenever Dad poured concrete he would have us kids round up all the small srap metal laying around and toss it in. The concret around the old farm is probably worth a fortune now!