So in other words, should I have this thing taken in as whole as possible? Eliminates the torching and lifting, no?Originally Posted by Proton
What was left of the D8 went as one piece, wanted that rental truck back by the end of the day.
You'll soon learn that cutting up heavy iron takes time and money for consumables, far more advantages to haul it in as large chunks.
Some tracked machines have pads and chains that are made from manganese again in my 20's I had cut up a large ball mill used to grind limestone into powder. The mill was half full of balls, I hand bombed two and a half tons onto my truck then when I got to the yard the magnet would not pick them up.
The yard told me what they were made from and did not want them, they were hand bombed off of the truck and to this day are probably buried in the mud at the yard. My contribution for free landfill.
Fortunately the liners inside the mill were magnetic, from that day forward I learned the value of having a small pocket magnet and its use.
Let the yard break up and separate the large scrap, iron, cast steel and cast iron all have different uses and vales. If I were in either the Yukon or Alaska I would specialise in the metals that resist abrasion.
Crawler chains and pads bucket teeth, slurry pumps, liners from ball mills or cone crushers, last I heard these metals were bringing in $1,200.00 ton at the foundry. That information is in an older post that I made not sure under which user name.
I named the foundry that purchases this type of scrap including the location, to be a player your'll need a hand held XRF to assure quality or learn how to acid test your metals.
One bad load to this foundry and you've lost your buyer.
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