Creepiest, Coolest Clean Out Yet
I got a call yesterday from a guy who was moving off a big old farm property and had some odds and ends left from cleaning out the barn. He told me there was a pile of stuff including a paint mixer and some neon lights. He also mentioned that he only owned the property until midnight and that I could look around the barn and have whatever I wanted from inside.
Fast forward to just after dinner time last night and I'm up at the property, the guy comes out of the house, starts with "it's just you?" which always makes me a little worried, then "help yourself". Okay, I go down and see the mixer and some other random stuff, go in the barn and find a dozen ballasts and some transformers. While I'm looking around, and it was still daylight, I can't even see into vast corners of this 4 story barn (the creepy part, would have been a great set for a horror movie) I go from floor to floor, every time I clear a level I find a set of rickety stairs going up. The barn had incandescent lights strung up all through it, all connected with...duh da da duh, house wire! Got the okay and started clipping everything I could reach! I think I left with about 50+ lbs!
I spent over an hour walking through the old structure picking at black and white stretches of wire. It was a shame I didn't get more notice than before midnight because there were still ballasts mounted and a lot of wire I just didn't have time to get at. Oh well, better than just a paint mixer and some metal!