[TheForge] RE: Tool Steel

[Jerry Smith]

Grant,

I live in Eastern Ohio, about 30 minutes outside of
Wheeling W.V. The tool steel is about 100 miles west
of me.

Jerry
--- Grant Marcoux <gblacksmith at alamedanet.net> wrote:

> Jerry:  8,000 pounds of by-gawd tool steel?  Where
> are you located?  What
> kind of tool steel is it, anyway?   Grant
> 
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> Of Jerry Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:21 AM
> To: Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] RE: Tool Steel
> 
> 
> Bob and Stephen,
> 
> I had 8,000 pounds of tool steel offered to me for
> just carrying it away. The pieces were too large for
> me to handle. Even using a plasma torch, my machine
> shop and all my other resources, the pieces were
> still
> too big.
> 
> Then it's the cost of hauling it about 120 miles
> back
> to my place.
> 
> Anyone out there want to help me haul it and split
> the
> steel evenly?
> 
> Jerry
> --- schade at acegroup.cc wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Dec 26, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Stephen Viola wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah it seems that both steel and coal have
> > decided to take a hike
> > > through the roof.. not sure why.. due to oil
> > prices or what??? if not
> > > it is always easy to blame it on oil anyway!
> > > I'm not that much of a market follower so I have
> > no real idea why the
> > > prices are escalating.
> > > Can anyone shed some light on that?
> > >
> > > Stephen
> > >
> > >
> >
> > You got it Stephen. Energy, energy, energy. Coal
> > *is* energy and steel
> > takes lots of energy to make. It's all about
> energy
> > and as energy gets
> > more
> > scarce everything that has anything to do with
> > energy.....
> > and that's everything, will get more and more and
> > more expensive.
> >
> > Don't sell your scrap pile!
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > ps. google "peak oil"
> >
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