My landlord build rat rods for a hobby. What's a rat rod you ask. Well, I had the same question. Here's a link to images of rat rods.
Rat Rods You take an old junker car ... or truck or bus or anything else that looks like pure junk, cut it apart and strip it down, then make another something that also looks like junk and not paint it. Now you have a rat rod. Anyway, he brought over a bunch of scrap metal from the projects they've been working on and enstead of just tossing it in the dumpster gave it to me to sell for scrap. What a nice landlord. It layed around for a couple weeks.
I'd been looking for scafold so I could work on the upper parts of the boat instead of working from the top of a ladder. You can find some on craigslist but it's mostly to short for what I needed.
The guy next door started working a scrap metal business and had some used racks like you might see at Home Depot or Lowes for lumber. Some one had scrapped one section ... so ... I traded him my scrap for his scrap. Now I have a 10 ft section I can move all around the boat to work up high.
