Where can I find a 6 foot long I beam of sufficient strength to build a
trg-s338 wrote in article ...
You might have more success finding someone near you by looking in YOUR local yellow pages under "Scrap Iron" than I would in the Northeast.
I can probably give you a number of places in MY area, but I would guess it would really kill your weekend to come all the way up here.
Doesn't ANYBODY have the ability to do simple research any more - such as finding a business in their local yellow pages?
Are you THAT lazy?
Or are you simply too "cost conscious" - aka "cheap" - to make a few telephone calls?
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:
- Every day above ground is a Good Day(tm). -----------
Unicorn Metals, Lambert Road, La Habra/Brea
Ask for Rito
Ill ask a few other places.
Do you have a prefered size of I-beam?
Gunner
"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."
- Proverbs 22:3
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. i
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:16:59 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Ignoramus10273 quickly quoth:
For most of us, that's about 5% of the garage by volume. We've already
-filled- the first 95%.
- Every day above ground is a Good Day(tm). -----------
To be fair, it's sometimes the case the people on newsgroups know of treasure troves which aren't listed under anything sensible in the phone book.
Gunner is in So. Cal. He might be able to help.
Best wishes,
Chris
"Ignoramus10273" wrote
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.
Steve
It's way more fun here. Like stopping in at the old local store for some cracker barrel chat.
If you need some help pulling that bug out of your ass, let us know.
Steve
One word:
Gunner
While it's lots of fun trying to get the best deal, a 6' long chunk of
8"x 21 would seem to be plenty, you are talk> Where can I find a 6 foot long I beam of sufficient strength to build a
I agree 100%!
i
Gunner is your man. A good reason for moving to So. Cal.!
Chris
My pleasure.
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If you have no luck..let me know.
Gunner
"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."
- Proverbs 22:3
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.
my $.02, Bob
Drive around. Find big building under construction. Talk to guys doing it. Ask about drops.
Pete Stanaitis
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trg-s338 wrote:
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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