Phosphoric acid dip to clean rusty hardware

[FuzzFace2]

Wow Fuzzface, my wife would kill me. Hats off to you. All my old bumpers in the bumper graveyard yearn for similar treatment.

It looks like you're in a suburban setting too. I'm VFD, we would get called out for this kind of setup if a Karen spots it in city limits. Keep it discrete.

That was my house in CT, less then a 1/4 acre of land, yes houses were pretty close together, no HOA.

Here in NC I have 3.8 acres non HOA. When my son got his Jeep running after sitting for 6+ years he drove it around the yard LOL

It was the only level place I had to set up the pool as the yard was pitched and I was not going to "level" for the pool.

There is nothing but water and washing soda and when done just dump it on the lawn as it only has iron from the rust removed, did not hurt the grass. All the leaves is from a big storm we had come through.

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As for the left over 2x4's I used brackets from https://www.2x4basics.com/

added 2 more 2x4's and made 2 benches that the backs turned up and pushed together made a picnic table we used on the deck.

The 4x4 used in the corners I drilled a hole in each end the 4 of them and with left over re-bar as up rights. I made a grid out of re-bar that was on the bottom of the pool that a lead was hooked to,

They were then placed close to the door into the house and they were used to stack & hold fire wood for the fire place. The wood was kept up off the deck by the 4x4's so no issues with rot of wood or deck.

As for the wife she did freak a little when I came home with all the 2x4's and even still after I told her what I was going to do with them when done. It was not till I had the 2 benches built and put together as the table she cooled off a little. She was happy the first time we used them for a cook out.

Dave ----