I was watching a show called MegaBreakdown. The guys on this show were scrappin locomotives and 747 Jet Aeroplanes. This was serious stuff for serious dollars. So what is the biggest thing you've scrapped. And remember...Size Does Matter!!!
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I was watching a show called MegaBreakdown. The guys on this show were scrappin locomotives and 747 Jet Aeroplanes. This was serious stuff for serious dollars. So what is the biggest thing you've scrapped. And remember...Size Does Matter!!!
48 ft aluminum/steel trailer....there is an old post with progressive photos
http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/...inreco/004.jpg
So I'm guessing the trailer had no use for you as storage.
It wasnt mine it was contract demo
Ah! I wish people would call me for stuff like that! I'd be finding a way to tow it away intact!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
No you would not, there's a reason this type of equipment is scrapped. It's usually so worn out it's more economical to buy a good 2nd hand or newer model.Quote:
Originally Posted by BurlyGuys
Years back a guy gave me an old Bucyrus steam shovel to scrap out, the boiler was toast but they still ran the shovel from a large air compressor. To the point the shovel worked a road down to the river bank near Boston Bar B.C, where they had a small gold claim.
The compressor and shovel were sperated for the winter then the road washed out, that crane is still sitting where it last worked. I never did retreive it for scrap as it would have cost more to rebuild the road than the scrap was worth.
I've since offered the shovel to seveal groups interested in restoring the shovel but no one has taken it to task to get it out of its current locaton.
The Bucyrus I wrecked out had a Cummins KT450 that netted me $15,000.00.
People dont call you, you find this type of equipment then sell yourself and your expertese to the owner. Usually this big stuff goes cheap becasue of the cost to dismantle and remove it.
The owners have no further use of it an would prefer to have it removed cheapest possible way and you coiuld be that man.
Large equiment is often bought at auction already two thirds worn out for use on a specific job and when the guys are finished that job usually the machine is about done as well - worn out beyound redemption.
This is why I love big iron.
I agree!
I did this one the other day!
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...31813010_n.jpg
An old double-wide three bedroom (scrapping....not just for boys)Quote:
Originally Posted by totalfish
I cut those locomotives up way faster then the guys on that show bunch of amatuers trying to show off.
@Ladyscrappers and all other women on forum. No offence intended, I thought that if I asked the girls to show their big one, I would get a virtual smack in the mouth!!! I was just trying to be silly not sexist.
a greyhound bus or a 30'x15' barge
http://www.rainwatertanksonline.com/...d/DSC00048.JPG
OK OK, it's not the size of your boat, it's the motion of your ocean...
Haha, no offense taken here!Quote:
Originally Posted by totalfish
If that barge was used in salt water, think I would have passed on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by danielms
beat it with a hammer to knock the scale off and then cut with a torch, did not take that long.
Here's todays best.
http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/P4020180.jpg
Here's last weeks best.
http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/P3290176.jpg
Also a good day, Mike.
http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/P3140111.jpg
p.s. This is the direct result of reading the old posts, Mike.
THAT should be your tag-line signature! :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyScrappers
The one that went great
160,000 lbs. of #2 insulated copper wire
The ones that could have changed it all:
US Treasury MONEY PLATES "Bragging rights"
3,000,000 of #1 500 MCM lost it for a nickel right just before copper was high after copper went crazy high. "Money Money Money"
500 Tons of 304 from a nuclear plant "Its complicated but would have made a pretty penny"