[TheForge] Steel Scrap was Treadle Hammer Anvil Stand

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I have a treadle hammer with a 300 lb anvil of 6" tubing having a 2.5" wall. It works just fine. Solid stock might work better. I don't know.

Mark
Snow Hill, Maryland

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From: "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com> 

> Like Ries notes -- most scrap is on the move today. Another reason is that 
> most scrap yards expect the price of scrap to drop, and drop quickly so you 
> want to get the money out of what you already have on the ground. Around 
> here (western North Carolina) many guys who would normally be hauling timber 
> are current trucking scrap, pays better. 
> 
> Dave, 
> 
> ps I think steel prices will be coming down, question is when. 
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------- 
> From: "ries" 
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:13 AM 
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" 
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Treadle Hammer Anvil Stand 
> 
> > 
> > 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/ 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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