I inspect building before they can be demolished (asbestos). Third time I've run into these ammo crates used as framing. This was on an attached garage.
Absolutely wild. Until 5 years ago, my friend lived in a house where all of the cabinets were built from real estate signs (signs used to be wooden boards). You couldn't tell until the paint got scratched
I was watching a show where they were tearing the vinyl siding off a house to put an addition onto one side. Turns out the owners in the 20s - or so - got their hands on thousands of coffee cans. Separated them at the seam and nailed them onto the side of the house like shingles.
People used to build houses and garages out of the crates bombers/fighters and jeeps were shipped in. Tons of fighters and jeeps were sold as surplus after the war still new in box essentially
That would be an awesome accent wall for a man cave.
"Hey George, I finally found a way to offload these 2 million shipping crates the Army dumped us with!"
BEHOLD the glory of Allied engineering; for our troops on the battlefield, AND back here at home, we deliver FULL support!
This is super cool
Absolutely wild. Until 5 years ago, my friend lived in a house where all of the cabinets were built from real estate signs (signs used to be wooden boards). You couldn't tell until the paint got scratched
I was watching a show where they were tearing the vinyl siding off a house to put an addition onto one side. Turns out the owners in the 20s - or so - got their hands on thousands of coffee cans. Separated them at the seam and nailed them onto the side of the house like shingles.
I thought that was pretty ingenious.
RainfallProject on YouTube made a workbench with some of those. Pretty neat
this is sick as fuck need
inner WW2 nerd screaming AHHHHHH THATS COOL AS SHIT
Also this shows how much fucking bulk shit we had after WW2
People used to build houses and garages out of the crates bombers/fighters and jeeps were shipped in. Tons of fighters and jeeps were sold as surplus after the war still new in box essentially