Lead clean up

[LedHed]

My buddy Big Steve cleaned up a bunch of lead for me

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Shea supposed to be guarding...

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Riki (new rescue) and Blanca



lotta lead

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didn't get to these

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or these

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[CrappieHappy]

That's a lot of lead..

 

[Ron Don]

That's enough to pour a round or two of your UL heads! Those bricks ain't light!

I recently came across a guy that has some old forklift counterweights that are lead. They're several hundred lbs each and he has a bunch of them.

 

[toadfrog]

Holy Freak'in moly .

 

[JSC]

Bunch of Lead !

:dodgy:

 

[StumpHunter]

O Boy!! many many heads will come out of that stash

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

Wow, it would take a few days to melt all that down. Looks like you're set for a little while.

 

[Hawnjigs]

Beyond a certain size, lead chunks are almost too much to deal with - "several hundred lbs each" definitely falls into that category.

Hey Sonny, is that lead stacked against the fence? Looks like most of your stuff is 99+.

 

[Ron Don]

I hope that's firewood against the fence!

Hawn this guy is self employed at a large salvage yard. He cuts up metal that the parent company doesn't want to send thru the shredder. ( it's quite a site to see a car get run thru a shredder if you've not had the opportunity. Nothing like seeing And hearing a locomotive engine chew up a car in a matter of seconds!). Anyway I did tell him a 500lb chunk was a bit more than I could handle. Then he showed me his melting contraption. It was a metal barrel that had a small pipe coming out of it. Once his fire getS hot enough it runs out the pipe. Would have liked to have seen it in action.

 

[CrappieHappy]

Sonny, did he flux with candle wax?


Ronny, wow a 500 lb chunk..... whew.....

 

[LedHed]

End results;

130 bars

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Not sure how many bars here

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CH yep, was using candle wax

That's wood stacked (magnolia tree) against the fence. Counter weights are too big to deal with - I wouldn't want to do it.

Got 4 buckets of wheel weights would like to get rid of....

 

[Lost Pole]

Now that's a stash!
There's a small pallet of MRI lead at my recycling place right now. Wish I had the loot to buy it and resell

 

[Radtexan]

Looks like alot of work,you should be set for a little while...Not long, knowing you...