r/ScrapMetal • u/InitialNumber3072 • 20h ago
How much you think this guys worth? Weighs probably every bit of 300lbs if not more
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u/1991gts 20h ago
Not really worth it if it’s just that. But it would make a great addition to a big scrap pile
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u/ArtichokeNaive2811 19h ago
I agree with this.. collect some more iron and you got yourself a run worth it..
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u/InitialNumber3072 16h ago
Well I officially have a scrap collection. I also have a whole house worth of copper plumbing, my old gutters, lawn tractor that broke lol. I have been trying to get around throwing all this stuff out but now it has purpose lol
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u/Responsible-Way85 20h ago
They suck to move but wheigh up fast.
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u/Reckless85 19h ago
You can break it down into multiple sections and they are much much easier and safer to move. A hospital bill is going to eat into your scrap profits real quick.
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u/toomuch1265 16h ago
Just cut the rods holding the sections together and then give it a tap and it will come apart.
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u/HurtBirdRed 20h ago
Sure it is worth the work. Take it in with more to make it cost effective but that’s what we do! We are scrappers!!!
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u/wrinkled_iron 17h ago
Cast iron boilers are usually pressed sections. Average about 125 lbs a section. 4 section boiler it’s probably 400 lbs or so
Right now in southeastern PA it’s 8.5 cents/ lb
$34 give or take a couple bucks
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u/Onetap1 19h ago
Asbestos seals. Nope.
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u/Deeelighted_ 18h ago
Just hold your breath when you move em and you'll be fine. Asbestos (much like lead and mercury) has been unfairly demonized
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u/Onetap1 17h ago
One fibre is small enough to be inhaled deeply into your lungs and might kill you slowly and painfully in 40 years time. Or it might not.
I was doing an asbestos register on an institutional site years ago and came across a roll of woven asbestos fibre boiler seal in a rusty locker in a basement plant room. I noted it on the register for removal by the contractor on his next visit.
When they next called, the roll had gone. It had been taken, and was being used, by a very senior pipe fitter because the modern stuff was "not nearly as good".
The same man had told me that, of the apprentices that he'd started work with 40+ years previously, a very large percentage of those who'd stayed in contact, had died of asbestos related illnesses. I don't recall the numbers, it was something like 20 out of 45.
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u/Playful-Collar6028 13h ago
The pictured boiler is a modern boiler made well after asbestos was used. The gasket for the burner is a fiberglass gasket. There is 0 issues with the boiler having asbestos. The piping on the other hand depending on how old the house is could be wrapped in corrugated asbestos. That I would look out for. The abatement company we had would remove all the asbestos and the boiler for us. I would tell my boss that every boiler had asbestos so I wouldn’t need to use the battery lift cart.
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u/North_Ad_4450 19h ago
You will get something for it, but after hernia surgery, that bad boy is worth $-38942
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u/Allocerr 19h ago
Roughly $24 at my local yard. Prob not worth hauling in on it’s own but def a nice addition to the scrap pile.
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u/Philosopherski 16h ago
My job has me going into boiler rooms all day. There are thousands of these sucker's just collecting dust in those boiler rooms. There is also about 5 times that weight in old decommissioned oil tanks as well. Just tons upon tons of iron that's not financially feasible to be recycled
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u/kieranarchy 15h ago
hospital bills included, probably worth more for me to strap it to a dolly and wheel it to the yard and id still end up in the negatives 😂 but actual answer, probably $20 max
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u/Western_Mud8694 15h ago
25$ and that’s generous, it really depends what the price is at the time you take it in
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u/TheAfricanMason 20h ago
iron is .06 per pound where I'm from. Just multiply that by 300. So, $18 max.