[TheForge] press

[Chuck Robinson]

If any of you folks now have the unquenchable desire to own a big press or
2,
 if you hurry, you can probably get a matched set for4 nothing from the
deactivated
Army Ammunition Plant at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
You just have to remove them from the building.
They are 2500 ton presses, stand about 6 stories high
 and you could fit a full size pickup in the jaws.
 During the plant auction the auctioneer started bidding at $3,000,000.
 The only bid offered was $100.
 I heard that the cost of removing them intact was $800,000.
I believe that they are now slated to be cut up for scrap.
Wish I could get the dies from them, they would make some serious anvils.
Chuck