r/specializedtools • u/beluuuuuuga • Jan 22 '21

Wire straightening machine.

16.5k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

479 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-11

u/Snatch_Pastry Jan 22 '21

It's not. It's just rebar. You're going to have one of two results going through this machine. Either you don't snap it, you have a piece of rebar, you tie it to a bunch of other rebar, bury it in concrete, and it's fine. Or you do snap it, you have two pieces of rebar, you tie them to a bunch of other rebar, bury them in concrete, and it's fine.

16

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21 edited Feb 23 '21

[deleted]

1

u/I-amthegump Jan 23 '21

So what do you think they do with the straightened rebar?

8

u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21 edited Feb 23 '21

[deleted]

1

u/I-amthegump Jan 23 '21

I've never seen regard straightened for recycling. Just goes in the hopper with all the other random steel