Originally Posted by
Ditchdigger
Here,
let me Google that for you.
Read the Wikipedia article, and follow its links to the other articles on steel. You're probably looking for "steel", not "iron".
Other than reinforcing rods for concrete, you're probably not going to find much in the way of 5/8" x 20' steel rods on housing construction sites, but it's easy enough to Google up steel dealers too.
In general, the answer to that would be, "with permission", otherwise, "no". Now whether you'll actually get arrested is a different question. Are you expecting to find eleven undamaged 20' rods in a dumpster?
Huh? :confused:
With all due respect, I've never seen a piece of steel go into a house that resembled anything found in an
auto parts store. (With the exception of a few nuts and bolts maybe.) Steel studs might be common in commercial construction, but other than the rebar mentioned above, houses contain mostly a few I beams, some steel posts to support them, some angles for masonry lintles, some joist hangers, maybe some steel decking under the concrete of the porch, and lots of nails...
Edited to add: Oh, and maybe the gas pipe plumbing, and the HVAC ductwork...
Originally Posted by
IronRod
My initial though was that it could be uses when building houses or maybe in a car?
Maybe i was being a bit sarcastic, but his info has been very vague, and i'm sure any search for types of steel would return countless informative articles on the subject(the info is definitely out there). Also, I misunderstood when he said 11-20" pieces, i thought he meant 11-20 inchers ; ) I kind of related his posts to sending an order to a lumber yard for 3-4' (ft.) "boards". You might get anything back from 3-4' 1x2 pine@$3 to 3-4' 2x12 walnut@$300, IF they even filled the order at all, which they probably wouldn't, without some little bit of info as to width,depth,type,grade
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