Iron Bridge?

[Strine]

This iron bridge doesn't go over the East River does it? When we were kids we were told if a bloke tried to sell you that bridge you knew straight away he was a con man...I just hope it's not the same bridge

[ThomasPowers]

my scrap WI experience:

first the demolition contractor said I could bring my cutting torch on-site and subdivide the spoils as I wished---good as they had dropped the watertower by cutting a leg and go boom method. WI does not like cold bending in most grades!

Next he said it would have to be moved off site and how many pieces did I want? "One" I repled and was told that was not possible.

After arranging a place to have it dumped, not easy in a city, I got a pile of WI plate pieces that had been mangled and folded by the demolition claw---Not what I had contracted for *and* everytime they damaged it more they wanted more money---they couldn't understand that they were destroying the stuff I wanted. I guess for scrapping making it more managable is a plus. I held them to the original contract cost and we proceded to cut it along the crumple zones to get the largest unblemished pieces we could and crumpled WI does not O-A cut well, any cracking or seperation blows the top layer back at you! Still I got several tons of usable WI plate in 3/16 and 5/16" thickness.

The next part of the saga involved the city telling me I had to get the plate out of my back yard so while I was off work with pneumonia I had to move all of it into the storage area I had just cleaned out in my shop in a move 1 piece go take a nap sort of way, largest piece was only 180# IIRC.

Thomas