in the town i live, there's a material recycle store, like if good will and home depot were combined. i buy bed frames and chunks of granite leftovers from peoples countertops. i weld the frames up into small coffee tables and use the granite for the table top. my next project is to build a plant stand. just fun hobby projects that i can give away to friends and family

I get at least two angle iron bed frames every month from a local apartment complex. There are always people moving out and tossing these things. I have also scavenged several sleeper sofa bed frames from the same apartments. That's typically a bunch of usable round tubing. I have made several benches using this scavenged steel.

Been saving them from garbage for 25 years! Great stuff! Built many go-karts and more out of them 😎👍

thanks! great video. Thank you - helped me so much. I looked for a video like this to solve my problem with a bedframe of metal that is too valuable to pitch. Thanks again. Oh, love your cat.

We broke a metal triple bunk when taking it down a few years back. I refused to dump it. Thanks to a neighbours handiwork and ingenuity, it (along with an old single bed spring base) is now a lovely swing in my back garden. I'm just getting the rust of it and giving it some long outstanding tlc at the moment. My favourite place for a cup of tea on a summer's evening watching the birds! Would love to see what you do with it.

I also use these all the time. The best way to cut these is the wiz wheel on the Grinder or friction chop saw but keep in mind some of these can be very hard like spring steel and can get a little brittle when welded so don't use this steel for anything that could be life threatening like overhead or hand rails. And what ever you do don't cut these with a cold saw they can wreck the blade quickly!

Cool cat! I've saved 3 of these sets for projects, it's great steel! Thanks for posting.

I want a 4x4 utility trailer built out of bed frames. The highest piece is wheels and tires

I have a bunch of these and have the tools and ability to weld except I don't know what I need to make lol. Maybe I'll finally make a vise and bench grinder stand but I need as much space as I can in my little 2 car garage.

You don't actually need more than 1 chuck for the angle grinder. Put one prong in a hole and move the other prong to put pressure on the lock cap and it should come right off. Might save you a minute or 2 instead of looking for a specific tool you can't find

Thanks this helped me clean mine up fast very sturdy, reusing as a rectangle gate with wood in between bolted in Hoping the light weight design is sturdy enough

Right now I am using one on my pop-up camper. I am taking the sag out of the roof. Works great!!

Excellent. Thank you.

Cheaper then going out to buy angle iron. I’m planning on making a welding stand with a table top around an old tool box to push around. Thanks!!

I need ideas for Metal frames. I have bed frames and a metal table frame. No tools to weld.. I thought about selling it to the a scrapyard!

I built a workbench out of bed rails. even the top of it was the 2 side panels off a stove. sandwiched and welded together and is my top of bench now. I have a vise bolted down on it and everything. 100% free! from metal I found in my neighbors garbage.

I like to use a plasma cutter to cut the rivets out and cut the legs off , basically cut the stuff. I use it to drill holes in it because drillbits do not work. I made planer tables and other things. Easy to fine and you get lots of it.

Good idea about using this steel as a cheap source of angle iron, just be aware that due to the high content of carbon and manganese I only recommend welding to advanced welders with proper techniques to treat the welds so they don't become brittle, this is the reason ALL bed frames are riveted NOT welded. Previously made a video where I'm testing the properties of that material after hardening test pieces and comparing properties there after... Have fun and be safe...

So I found a guy that saved all of these from a Hotel demo I scored @ 100 bed rail sets for $80 little prep work but very efficient.

It's great steel. I just collected 3 bed frames from somebody illegally dumping and stacked them in my steel pile. I decided NOT to remove the rivets and other stuff because I can do it later and it may be possible to use the stuff as it is.

I wonder if it's possible to recycle old bed frame to make a flatbed truck?????

Bed rails are the hardest metal to drill through. Cool for welding projects but if you have to drill through it’s another story

I use a small grinder with a regular stone wheel, not a cutting wheel, then take a nail punch and pop the rivets out. Same as yourself, take a few seconds. I have made an old trunk using bed frames, mounting the wood on the inside angle to it looks solid. I have also taken a flap wheel and ground the paint off real quick, brushed on a mix of one part white vinegar, one part bleach, to rust the metal. Did the same to some short carriage bolts (mostly the head) so when you mount the wood from the inside, they look like huge rivets from the old days, and your trunk looks like an old chest. For end handles, you can use horse shoes welded together, or find a store that sells big metal rings. Thanks for posting your video brother!

I also use one long piece of bed rail as a barricade bar that sits on 2 both sides of on my back french doors. which have 0 security and a 1 st grader could kick it in.

MY AUTOMATIC WELDING SHIELD IS GREAT FOR GRINDING AS WELL

Thumbs up. I do this all the time. I have about 200' of bed frame angle iron waiting for me to do something with it. I've made tables, a stand for a table top hockey game... all sorts of stuff out of it. If you use a course flap disc it grinds those rivets off a lot faster than a grinding disc. If you're concerned enough about safety to wear a face shield, you really should be using a guard on the grinder. Bonus thumbs up for using a Mastercraft angle grinder. I have 5 grinders and three of them are Mastercraft. I buy the 7 amp ones when they go on sale for $20 or $30. They work just as well as my more expensive Makita and Milwaukee. I have a Princess Auto grinder that works OK but the switch sucks. I dunno where you are in Canada but I'm in Edmonton. Check out my channel. Take care and thanks for the video.

You can also cut a deep x into the top of the rivet, and hit it with a punch. Probably way too many ways to tackle those fasteners.

Thanks man. I'm now on the lookout for these kinds of garbage....I mean gold.

wondering if the steel makes good/sharp kitchen knives, holding edge?

wanting to see how the frame is cut! which type of disc is used.

Does anyone know how these might hold up to heat, in a fireplace for example...?

Her I thought I was crazy for wanting to get a few and build a truddle hammer with them, a heavy piece of rail road track turned on end and a 20 lb sledge.... then maybe a second one with smaller rail road anvil formed into a hardy anvil and a 10ish lb sledge on it

hey i have a n old metal frame.. what can i tuen it into ? any ideas

Of course being spring steel you’ll probably go through 20 drill bits to drill a hole in it. If they didn’t make bed frames out of spring steel afterwhile the frames would warp. I thought great free steel. I think I’ll pay the price so I can have some thing I can actually drill through. It is hard as tool steel

This video has taught me not to believe everything I see on the internet. I built an awning to cover a small space out of bed rail , after welding and getting the project ready to fasten the metal sheathing with self tappers, I noticed that NOTHING can drill through this material. That’s because it’s a very hard carbon metal. Usually made from recycled rail road tracks. There’s a reason why almost all bed frames are riveted together rather than simple welds. This metal will not accept any structural weld. They can literally crack off with the turn of pliers.

Would flux core work on bedframes?? Nothing structural of course

You use the wrench to tighten it u don't do that

Is this AVE?

So true people don't care

Shhhh…don’t tell everyone!