Was just browsing craiglist and in Little Rock a guy has 25 frames. Well 50 frame rails that he wants to sell for $15 each or $25 a pair. He says they can be used as fence posts. Wonder what he did with all the crossmembers?

I think you can make a nice decorative gate by welding them together
Best
Gus

Here is the listing:

http://littlerock.craigslist.org/pts/1933123715.html

John Oder

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!!!!!!!

WHY .... would anyone take them apart???
they don't even appear to be rusty...

you have to wonder, are there any branch's on this guys family tree??

Lets not jump to conclusions. Maybe he wasnt the person who took them apart. At least he is offering them for sale and not sending them to the scrap yard

Maybe Jason needs to bid on them and replace his "To badly bend frame" that he posted some days back.

Possible.....
but someone took them apart...
If they where closer I'd buy them,
great back up in case you ever need to fix a frame

Shawn, im closer to u, I'm in northern Mn, sell you all the frames u want for$50 each for good straight frames

I need a couple more frames, but I'm in Califunny.
W2

What a waste. Why would you want to do that?

Stephen

I've seen several T frames used on very old fences as braces between the corner post and the first line post. I've also seen them used as clothesline posts but they were built many years ago.

40 years ago I visited a friend at his rented house, (more like a shack) in the country. The attached leanto garage was framed with model T frame rails. Maybe the house was to. Those old farmers were very resourceful.
Dennis

In 1955 when our family moved from the farm to the suburbs, my dad sold our 1930 Willys Knight 66B to the guy who bought our farm. I was 16 years old and wanted to buy the car from dad (of course I had no money), but no such luck. The new owner promptly removed the body and used the car as a tractor!
Hey Kep, go see if you can find it. Parkers road, Oratia.
While you are in the neighborhood, check out the Oratia Museum. That is the house I grew up in. It is now on David Harre's property. He has some interesting stuff too. 1926 Austin 7 etc.

I have a country 1910-1930-s winter children's school [bus] sleigh (enclosed) sitting on blocks. I think I'll add a T frame to replace the runners (which I have but are in sad shape) and make a camping trailer out of it. Ergo, I will need a suitable frame and rear end for the purpose.
Anyone close by can help out with this one? I would be happy to make this a trailer-share opportunity amongst contributors!

Hard to tell from the pics but I was wondering if it's possible they never were assembled? Were rails sold that way? I only ask because there's so many of them.

As John Berch said, we have a lot of frame rails in this area used as fence braces and clothes line posts. Several years ago a co-worker told me he had about a half pickup load of T frame rails that came from his grandfather's farm that I could have if I came and got them. I went to pick them up, but he neglected to tell me that they took out all of the fence with a dozer. Every one of them were bent badly. I brought them home anyway. Dave

I have found T parts used in all kinds of strange places. Wheels for lamps, axle housings as table stands, hoggs heads as urinals, and quite often frame rails just like in the picture used as shelving framing in warehouses.

Could not find that place you mentioned on googlemaps and do not really want to drive there today, Maybe another day.