need help on moving a tar truck bed

[XZAV38]

I have found an ad on craigslist, the owner wants it gone and he said he can help load it, but my question would be, about how much would I make off of something like this.

[XZAV38]

Here is the picture of the truck bed

[missouri]

Unless it is clean of tar . You will have a pay to get rid of it. Most have a layer of tar . Only way to clean it off is to burn . Which is illegal .

[XZAV38]

I kinda figured that about the tar, but would you think that I could make some money off of it after the tar is out of it??

[jimicrk]

Do you have a way of moving it?

[XZAV38]

Not yet, it's a plan in the making right now

[XZAV38]

I was looking at finding someone who has a rollback truck to help me move it

[alloy2]

If your determind to proceed, the tar breaks up easily in colder weather, once you've recovered the tar perhaps give it to another roofer, the outer jacket will be fully insulated so you'll have to deal with that also.

Personally I would charge the owner to dispose of this offering.

[cummins]

This job shouldn't be a free removal gig. If it was clean you might be into a grand or two of oversized. The Labour is going to brutal and toxic. Although an excavator and a flat bed would make quick work of it. I mean if you have nothing else to do money is money. I'd walk away. Maybe act as Asa middle man talk to the local yards get quotes

[jimicrk]

I only scrap computers and phone systems and have no idea what it would take to complete a project like that.

I do feel that you have been given some good advice from people who know.

Even if you do find a truck and a way to deal with the tar and other items that need to be removed, come payday I can't help but think that you'll be kicking yourself in the arse for not walking away from it.

Personally I think the guy is trying to take advantage of you.

It reminds me of the CL ads for free above ground swimming pools. Free scrap metal but you must remove the deck, fill in the hole, put down grass seed and make it look like a pool was never there.

Then again, I could be wrong.

[alloy2]

I had two 10,000 underground fuel tanks, plus a very large tank used for melting tar. which I estmate would have been around 8,000 gallons. The tar tank came from a yard where it sat in a stationary position not sure where it may have come from the railway.

The tar tank was covered in a heavy foam inulation, broke some off in big chunks with the excavtor but the mess was horrible and a give up on it. These tanks were left on property we owned before we aquired the property and we wanted to sell. And the tanks were now a liability they had to go, anyhow we put the word out and some guy came along with a semi truck taking the tanks to a Ranch he owned to be used as water tanks.

I was glad to see them go, my seconed liablity was an acre of stacked insulated panels from walk in freezers and coolers, these are cool in more ways than one if you have a use for them as each panel is toungue grooved for an air tight fit then cam locked in place with another so you can make some pretty neat outbuildings with them.

Once again someone came to our rescue coming in with a semi, two loads and the're all gone.

I brough the walk in freezer panels home, a cpompay that did new instalations would call me to come and get the old penals from the job site and the best part is they loaded them for me. Had something to do with workers comp and I was'nt about to complain.

[XZAV38]

hey guys thank you very much for the advice, the more I've been thinking about it, the more, I have decided to wash my hands of it, I will keep on looking for better loads that will pay better than this one.
thank you very much for the advice

[msmoorad]

leave your contact details with the guy and give him your price for removing it,

theres a good chance he wont get anyone to remove it for free and your quote might be cheaper than other peoples
so he will get back to you in the end.