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  1. 04-27-2012, 06:14 PM #1
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    Street sweeper

    Hey guys i need help with BIG things.
    I would like to find someone who has the ability to move large items.

    The first one would be a 1963 elgin street sweeper, I would like to reach a deal with someone who can move it,

    This will lead to another job if it goes sucessfully. I have a 60's bus. It is complete with the engine and trans. Due to the size i would guess it would take a lowboy to move it.
    If i cannot move them whole, i think i will buy torches and start cutting. Or i could get a pipe saw.
    I appreciate any help and insight i could get here. Local yard are not interested/ equipped.

    Here is a cl posting of it, but i would rather start working with a forum member.
    http://boston.craigslist.org/nwb/grd/2983207244.html



    ETA: These things are mine already, i have "ownership" of them and need to move them.
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  3. 04-27-2012, 06:49 PM #2
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    Are you considering paying this guy that much? Seems to me 8000lbs X $0.12 = $960 - $700 = $260 not counting expenses is far too much to the owner of this thing. If I had the eqipement I would offer $200 and demand a bill of sale so he could not back out. Mike.
    "Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}

    Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked
  4. 04-27-2012, 07:05 PM #3
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    What?
    I want 700 for the street sweeper, Me get paid
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    Oh sorry. I misread(old brain). Mike
  6. 04-27-2012, 07:32 PM #5
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    No worries, sometimes things dont read right
  7. 05-14-2012, 09:41 PM #6
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    Bump anyone in the area who can help deal with large pieces of scrap?
    Would pay for someone to help me cut/ torch apart the bus and sweeper.
  8. 05-15-2012, 09:21 AM #7
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    You want put me up in a room fpr a night and cut me a %, I will come and help torch it up on the weekend. Your only a few hours from me. WHat part you in? I can either bring the plasma or torches...just need to get my o2 filled is all. Torch probaly quicker. Yes Im dead serious. Need a break from life lol.
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    Woah that sounds sweet, This weekend i will be repairing my truck so that is priority, maybe next weekend 5/26
    I am in Bedford MA and I have torches and acetylene/oxygen, no air compressor though for a plasma
    Also i might bring a generator with me instead of running 100+ feet of extension cord.

    Sounds like it might work, as long as i dont do it all by then. Will see how this week goes.
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    Well if you need me holler. Will be around. Just busy all this week or I would come now. Your only 5 hours away and honestly, used to make that run daily when driving truck. So no big deal. I dont have the greatest torch set in the world, harbor freight, but it has a #3 tip and I been burning since I was 18...almost 15 years. So can do it quick. Let me know. Plus while Im up there, maybe I will run up to NH to the beach...make it a vacation..lol.
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    Waiting to get a concrete cutter to do the bulk of the body cutting,
    Wont have it till next week

    Dont think torching through the roof and sides will be cost effective?
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    Yes it is. I have cut up whole dump trucks including cabs with one o2 tank.
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