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The most entertaining "school me"thread... My 1st piece of H.E. Two 80ton Hoes

aighead

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I don't know if I know the number one thread.

I love this thread though. I just went and checked for updated maps but didn't see anything new.
 
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Great read, hope everything is going smoothly for the guy. Definitely the largest machines ive seen on a residential lot owned by the homeowner but not by much lol.

Plenty of 50 to 60 ton old worn out hoe's sitting on small farms 10 acre and under around me. You can pretty much get them for the price of scrap and run them until something breaks then they're an ornament. Just buy another if you still need one as its far cheaper than repairing the broken one.
 
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Assuming you plan to let something like that rot after you got it and used it cheap I'd think turning it to scrap with the gas axe would be better than leaving it sit in the way in the yard. Couldn't they get cut up into manageable bites with a torch? Seems like there'd be a fair amount of recycling money there, though a lot of trips to the recycle center.
 
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In the first posted pics i thought the road where he unloaded looked like hwy 105. What did the neighbors think as he walked those beasts up into the development?

I bet the second machine is somewhere in the neighborhood...
 
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aighead said:
Assuming you plan to let something like that rot after you got it and used it cheap I'd think turning it to scrap with the gas axe would be better than leaving it sit in the way in the yard. Couldn't they get cut up into manageable bites with a torch? Seems like there'd be a fair amount of recycling money there, though a lot of trips to the recycle center.
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The concept of cutting up big iron for scrap is wonderful but the execution is a whole other story. For a one man show with no other equipment or much smaller equipment its just not safe or feasible to take the torch and start cutting a big giant down.

Over my career developing land ive had to remove quite the number of big iron left behind by previous owners. Even with my 30 ton hoe and a few 13 ton hoes on site, the amount of rigging and securing to safely dismantle some of them actually cost me money because scrap prices are so low. As an example prices right now would bring roughly $12,000 for 60 tons of scrap. I dont know anyone that would spend weeks cutting down a 60 ton hoe and haul it in for scrap using a class 7 or under farm truck.
 
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