Originally Posted by
Proton
What is your local yard paying per ton for scrap cars and trucks, versus prepared short as you call it.
Once you chop up your Military truck your going to find out that the cab, fenders and the hood are not considered heavy melt. Tires and glass will not be allowed in your heavy melt load, plus your going to loose a few hundred pounds of caked on grease, dirt and mud hidden in body pockets by cutting the truck up.
The last large bottle of oxygen I bought a few years ago was just under $100.00 a 20 pound bottle of propane around $25.00. The propane bottle will last for about five large oxygen.
I figure even for a noob one large bottle of oxygen would be enough to cut that MILITARY truck up into small bits.
We've spent plenty of time discussing how to cut this truck up and now your new found confidence feel that you can burn one to the ground, I don't doubt for a minute that you could. Now that it's on the ground how are you going to load it.
Shall we take it to the next stage - loading.
Living on the west coast, Budget kept a crane truck rental for the commercial fisherman and others like myself. I myself on several occasions had rented that truck, in fact this truck was the first time I had even used a truck mounted knuckle crane.
The rental truck was fortunately on the same end of a 60 mile journey as the scrap yard, I would pick the truck up late in the day then drive that 60 miles home and be up at 5:00 am to have it loaded and back its home late in the afternoon.
One of the loads I had was an old D8 Cat with half the engine missing and no blade, the crane would not lift the whole cat but I found that it would lift one end at a time. Once an end was lifted would stack railway ties under then lift the other end and stack more ties under.
I did this until each end of the cat was level with the truck deck, then gradually worked each end of the cat over onto the deck of the truck.
At this time of my life was in my early 20's, now at this late time of my life I would like to hear how your going to load and haul the scrap from this military truck your planning to butcher.
The way you describe the story of this CAT, did you load it and haul to the scrap yard in one piece? Of course, that's the most hassle-free way, right? Granted I may get less for it for obvious reasons...
I figured small chunks and a flatbed. Lifting, well small crane or a small backhoe. But always open to other ideas! Young and inexperienced here (20 myself).
With all your guys' crazy encouragement I almost might have to butcher one just so I can actually report back on the results, even if my other reasons for such never come to be. Either that or haul one in whole just to report back, here again. I never thought my topic would be so "intriguing" but apparently it is!
And dirt and grease...you described a 5 ton perfectly. As much as I also enjoy them in their stock form your description is accurate. I've spent a few hours under them with a grease gun and a wire brush and a propane torch....
M923 
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