Took in the first load of rusty steel to scrap. The wife and I got it all magnet fishing.
We've only gone out maybe a dozen times and this is about half of what needs to go.
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We've only gone out maybe a dozen times and this is about half of what needs to go.
Dull Love story : dull man has dull wife he does dull things with.
A dully happy ending
It's a really dull activity, right up until you fish out a gun or an UXO...
every "there's a murder in this sleepy village" crime story starts with something like that.
"I was just walking my dogs, when they sniffed out this bloody axe. That sort of thing never happens in Sleepyville!"
Reminds me of a script I wrote for an episode of Popular Crime Procedural about a decade ago.
"What have we got?"
"Some hiker in the cold open noticed a dead body congruent with your trademark brand of vaguely autistic gimmicky 'talent', Tha Chief."
It turns out that Federal Agent With Speaking Role is Mr. Diddit. The raid on his own house was a clever bit of misdirection.
Catch any magnets?
Ok. So you get them by fishing. Thats interesting.
But how do they work??
fuckin' magnets
Some very stable genius said once that you pour water on the magnet and it's the end of the magnet.
There's a sad joke here somewhere about the amount of heavy metals in fish.
"We got weights in fish!"
oh my god I will be saying this for the next 3 months, I had forgotten about it somehow
Ok, I will steel myself for those bad puns.
Yeah, but I’d rather fish in heavy metal than on harmonicas
Just a concrete turtle
How much is that worth? We talking $100 or $1000?
Won't be much, the usual price near me for plain old iron/steel is around $100 (AUD) per tonne. With small amounts like this the main benefits are the fuzzy feeling of recycling rather than creating landfill along with avoiding the cost of paying to dispose of a heavy pile of stuff.
This. We do it in the odd chance we get something cool. And the fuzzy we get from cleaning the rivers near us. Pretty gross how much there is. I'm keeping the wagon wheel.
Not sure how heavy that is or how the condition changes it, but it's in the ballpart of $0.10 per lb.
So it's definitely not $1000, and $100 is like half a small car's weight in steel.
Might be a couple hundred as OP said this was about half. Around 12 cents a pound where I am last I checked but it varies wildly. I think we are on the routes to the steel yards so we get better prices. Port cities on the ocean offer less for some reason. Steel is really heavy, a cubic foot weighs 480 pounds for instance.
Looks to be about 3$ worth of steel
A cleaner waterway is priceless
I got a magnet for fishing and it's so hard to remove anything that attaches to it that I don't think I could actually use it to fish with. Catch anything heavy and I'll just have to drop the magnet.
Could set up snatch blocks for the mechanical advantage
Can't say that I'm familiar.
Rope (2) is too heavy to pull. Set up two pulleys (snatch block) like this and get a mechanical advantage.
I assume it's like jig with a hole in the middle just the size of the magnet that you then winch the magnet up through and it blocks whatever's attached hopefully providing enough resistance to detach it.
How much is this worth? $1 a KG?
Give it away. I'm just glad they don't charge me to take it in. Most is pretty far gone. A few pieces are sold but not much.
I'm sure tens of dollars were earned at the scrap yard.
Some of those chunks of steel look pretty thick, it's really heavy, 13 cents a pound last I checked, which was over a decade ago. Depending on where you live. Surprisingly areas on the ocean with ports may offer much lower prices than those in the upper midwest, maybe because the steel manufacturing in the great lakes region.
I took what I thought would be like $50 to $100 worth of cast iron that was hundreds of pounds taking up space in my garage. I got $15. Waste of time imo. Better off putting it out for curbside pickup. It cost more in gas for me to drive down there than they paid me for it.
Plus you can get a flat tire from from visiting the yard.