I spent a weekend taking a very old wrought-iron stair rail and an iron fence section to make a proper safe pathway to and from our exterior basement door. A little cutting, some welding, a tiny bit of forge work, paint, post hole digging, pouring 3 bags of concrete, 1 cut thumb, a few dirty words… BING-BANG-BOOM… An up-cycled fence and handrail was installed that should last another 100 years or so.