My husband thought I was looking for a new career this week.
I was asking him a lot of questions about ironworker wire, form wire, and tie wire coils.
When I asked what they used stainless steel ironworker wire for, he was stumped. I went through a myriad of uses the internet suggests, but I didn’t know what any of that was either. I told him I thought I knew what turnbuckles were, but he told me I was partly right. When I thought of turnbuckles, I pictured the corner in wrestling rings. They were what the wrestlers were always throw into. He told me that stainless steel ironworker wire could be used in those types of turnbuckles, but it was also used in turnbuckles that are placed in construction. This gives the ironworker the ability to tighten the wire when or if it begins to loosen. Stainless steel ironworker wire is also used in the suspension wires that hold up cable cars, and in the wire that help to hold up bridges and them their strength and flexibility. We talked about cable tensioners, which is something I saw when they were repairing one of our local suspension bridges. It amazes me at the uses they have come up with for all of these tie wires. I wonder if they weren’t specially made for bridge builders back 100 or 200 years ago and one day they realized the possibility of using stainless steel ironworker wire for other uses. I hear people talking about the pioneers of science, but it is those people that are the true pioneers. They have given us the ability to travel the world in a week, when it took that long for pioneers to go from one state to the next.