Where can I find a 6 foot long I beam of sufficient strength to build a
25 ton log splitter frame with, preferably in So.Cal within reasonable driving range from Orange County? A place that salvages or sells remnants would be great... being cost conscious and all. Any leads? Thanks in advance.
On 26 Sep 2006 13:45:46 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm, "trg-s338" quickly quoth:
I saw some in Lee's Iron and Metal in Vista, CA about 7 years ago, if that helps. ;) Now that larger buildings are going up everywhere, that shouldn't be too hard a thing to find. 760-724-1330 Call 'em!
Or let your fingers do the googling:
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15 minutes on the phone will give you plenty of leads for amazing stuff, enough to fill your garage with junk to the ceiling, for next to nothing. I am being slightly ironic, but it is true.
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It is also good to go to your local scrap dealer and meet personally. If you can find you one guy there, bribe him with a pizza and some beer, or slip him a $20 with your phone number, he'll call you when what you want appears.
Scrap moves in and out fast some times. And with some types of scrap, if it's tossed on the pile, it gets bent or twisted, and isn't good for what you want. So, having someone who will call you is good.
My steel supplier sells rems by the pound. Steel and stainless. Some copper and brass, too. When I want some special pieces of stainless, I go over and do a little greasing, and in a week or two, I get a call, and there's a stack of just what I wanted.
Grease works for more than axles. I gotta go do just thing to get some bar grating I need for some cabin stairs that are good in the snow.
Paying an extra ten or twenty bucks for a piece of mondo I beam for a splitter is a lot less than what it would cost you at a steel yard.
Look for a building renovation or a boiler refit job in your area, there are times when you will find some really good buys on used steel from the demolition contractor. They will usually sell you whatever you want for scrap prices saving them the need to haul it off themselves.
Have you priced all your components? Log splitters are one of those things that seldom make sense to build yourself. Unless you have a really deep junk pile. By the time you've acquired the steel, motor, pump, cylinder, valve & hoses you will have spent nearly as much as a retail one. And if you get some part wrong, you're going to have to buy a second one.
You won't find any drops at the construction site. Except for light bridging , the structural steel is all fabbed at the steel suppliers yard. That's the place to go for the drops. The only way you find any leftover structural at a site is if someone f---ed up. Then they might leave something behind because shipping costs more than the scrap value of the steel. Tom
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