Does anyone know what these are?

Ken68

Uranium is very heavy :-)

andrew-b

Ken68 wrote: »

Uranium is very heavy :-)

Lol! Maybe Wesker hubby's job is decommissioning dungeness nuclear power station?

Wesker

andrew-b wrote: »

Lol! Maybe Wesker hubby's job is decommissioning dungeness nuclear power station?

No he just works at a supermarket lol
It was some 'oddjob' guy that does work for them that gave them to him. Not sure if their intended use was for the Supermarket or not. I think he does work elsewhere too.

Anyway i will PM you andrew-b

Hitch

Look like galvanised ties/straps to me. As above, used for various purposes, the holes are for nails or screws. Worth a couple of pence scrap, or might come in handy if you leave them in the shed.

Volcano

I have some of these stored in my shed, they were supplied with the roofing trusses I ordered for a new-build house and were used to strap the wall plate for the roof to the top of the house's walls:

"A more modern enhancement to this technique is to include metal straps that help tie the wall plate to the walls. Typically these nail over the wall plate and are then fixed to the inner surface of the wall."

http://www.wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Roof_construction

I cut them up into usable lengths as they make great heavy duty brackets etc

bookduck

espresso wrote: »

...take a file or hacksaw to them

Whats wrong with a magnet

andrew-b

Asked my partner who used to work in a supermarket too to see if she recognised them as anything she might have seen. She wondered if they might have been part of the back of shelving but wasnt too sure ..although she said the shelving brackets are really substantial and heavy so it's possible.

Andy

espresso

bookduck wrote: »

Whats wrong with a magnet

Nothing, just didn't think of it at the time of posting.