Comment by mschuster91

Yuck, I know the feeling - just for me it was a piece of lightning rod conductor that snapped out of its coil, still have the scar in my face, but it has faded thankfully. Hope you did recover from your injury!

> I believe I have managed to collect the majority of the abandoned wire but now I face the dilemma of what to do with it. I don't want to take it to the land fill and make it someone else's problem but don't want to have it in my way either as it is very heavy and cumbersome to move.

Sell it at a scrap yard. They will sell it to a smelter and that's it.

> My only idea is to get a forge or smelter and transform it into a less menacing product.

If you go that far in yak-shaving, there are some pretty amazing how-to videos on Youtube that detail how to build a proper forge - and actually make an axe or other medieval weapon out of ore.