[TheForge] Treadle Hammer Anvil Stand

[ries]

On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:

Why fart around with this at all?  Go to the scrap yard and find a  
piece of 6" solid round or 4" solid square and do the job correctly.   
If it costs you $50, so what?


3 feet of 6" round weighs 300lbs.
My local guy would get .30 a pound for that-
$180.
If he had any.
Last time I was at the scrap yard, they had about 50 square feet of  
actual scrap for sale- a few perfect I beams or big pieces of 12"  
square tube, in lengths over 8 feet.
Everything else goes right onto the big pile that is being loaded, all  
day long, into containers for shipping to the steel mills, either here  
in the USA or overseas.
Most steel now, in an efficient scrap yard, sits for no more than a  
day or two before being sold in bulk.
Same thing with auto recyclers around here- Schnitzer, from Portland,  
owns something like 600 auto recycling yards around the country.
A car will sit 30 days, and then its crushed, no matter what- a  
computer printout tells em which cars to smash each day, to "keep the  
inventory fresh".

The value of land, the expense of running a business, means in most  
west coast states, anyway, a scrap yard goes out of business if it is  
waiting to get top dollar for that usable scrap like 6" round.
Not a good thing, but an unfortunate truth around here.

ries


Ries Niemi
Industrial Artist
http://www.riesniemi.com/