[TheForge] Fw: Auction Block was Cranes

[David E. Smucker]

What is scary now it the level of top flight equipment -- less the 5 years 
old being auction off as whole shops go under.  Lot of items look like they 
are companies that supported auto manufacture.  Almost all of these are 
major CNC machines.

Back 15 years ago I used to work with a first class shop in Ohio called 
"Service Guide"  over the years they had bought all kinds of major machine 
tools at sales like these in tough time at pennies on the dollar.  The owner 
would just salt them away in a warehouse he had.  Then he had two first 
class machine rebuilders working in his shop putting them back into better 
than new service.  I think he had more that 10 Gray Boring mills  -- the 
really big ones.  He had so many machine tools that each machinist had his 
own, lathe or boring mill.  No one else used it -- so if they had a problem 
with the machine they knew how and why it happen.  This gave him the 
limitation that he only ran his machine tools one 10 hour shift per day --  
but he sure had a happy crew.  He did run two shifts of welders and ran his 
furnaces 3 shifts.  Most of his business was rebuilding rolling mill 
equipment for major mills in steel and aluminum.

Andy,  They are still going strong it looks like -- check out this URL

http://www.serviceguideinc.com/cohistory.htm

You will love their list of machine tools

Dave

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From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:36 PM
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Fw:  Cranes

>
>
> David E. Smucker wrote:
>> Andy,  What we can afford and what we would like to have are two 
>> different
>> things.  No matter how rich, having a bridge crane that travels outside 
>> of
>> the building makes little sense unless you are in a business that 
>> requires
>> it.  Nothing Terry has said seems to show that.  Sealing up a building 
>> end
>> wall in northern Illinois winters is not easy -- I know what -20 F is 
>> like.
>
> I wasn't speaking to practical need, just to what would be nice.
>
>> Lots and lots of stuff going on the auction block every day now.  I get
>> several notices a week of major equipment auctions.  Should be able to 
>> find
>> a lot of fork lifts for sale in the Midwest.
>
> Ever wonder where they are going? :)
>
> About 10-12 years ago just about all the old Pratt & Whitney hydraulic
> rifling machines quietly left US shores for... that's right!  Mexico!
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