I am always getting free metal and items. One time when I used to work maintenance at a big structural steel place they had us removing copper from some old welders they had laying around. Into the second day of us pulling these welders apart an old timer at the place came up to me and said " you know almost all them welders worked when we put them up there". I thought to myself Hmmmm, so I went to the plant foreman and said," You know its costing you more than the materials we are getting out of these to have us pull them apart, How about you let me take a couple home." He thought about it for a second or two and told me to take what ever I wanted home. So I had a big Lincoln 750 amp AC stick machine, A Linde spool gun, and a old bumblebee welder follow me home. I used the Lincoln welder for a while til I had to move and sold it for $500. Never did get around to using the spool gun and parted out the bumblebee cause I couldn't use it.