Mini-Excevator tracks and pipes

[Northwoods]

OK, this is like the 3rd fracking time I've tried to post this.  I'm not re-typing the dang post yet again.

The short, short version.

What are the tracks likely to be worth and what would they fit?  What are the pipes (culvert, random sizes PVC and ABS, perf pipe, etc) likely to be worth?

[AZRedhawk44]

Pipes?  Nuttin.  It's used segments of random diameter pipe.  Why on earth would I buy it when I can go to Home Depot or elsewhere and get the actual diameter I need, in the length(s) I need to complete my project?


Tracks?  Dunno.

[wmenorr67]

The metal and rubber are probably going to bring you more as scrap than they will otherwise.

[sanglant]

knowing how much money is being thrown away melting down gold.(yeah that 5-10 bucks you got for a gold nib, was much less then 10% of what it was worth. ) i would defiantly get an answer before selling anything as scrap.

and a start.

or there's this.

[Tallpine]

Tracks might make a good walkway across a muddy area if they were split and laid flat.

[roo_ster]

I'll pay you good money for the tracks if you beat the stuffing out of Franks & Dodd with them.

Tracks might make a good walkway across a muddy area if they were split and laid flat.

This.

[Northwoods]

I'll pay you good money for the tracks if you beat the stuffing out of Franks & Dodd with them.

You wouldn't have to pay me for that :D.

I've got them up on Craigslist.  We'll see what happens.

[Tallpine]

I'd like to have the pipes in my junkpile but I'm 800 miles away.

And it's the sort of thing that people sometimes just give to me when they are moving and cleaning up their place to sell.

That's why I have a bunch of used maple flooring under my deck (well, it seemed like a good idea at the time ....  )

[Scout26]

Pipes and what not - POTATO GUNS AND OTHER FIERY FLAMIN' STUFF LAUNCHERS !!!

Treds- put them in back yard of someone you don't like.  IIRC, those are farking HEAVY!!!!!!!

[Northwoods]

Treds- put them in back yard of someone you don't like.  IIRC, those are farking HEAVY!!!!!!!

I'd guess at least 300# each.  Heavy enough that we used the backhoe to move them.

[freakazoid]

Pipes and what not - POTATO GUNS AND OTHER FIERY FLAMIN' STUFF LAUNCHERS !!!

This idea + treds = tank, :D You are sitting on a goldmine of fun!!

[sanglant]

and now we land on the true value of the treads.

now for some veer, anyone else noticing trends of people scraping things that are worth good money for materials that are worth less then half what the starting item is worth? it's starting to bother me*, fountain pens, nice jewelery, "clunkers", stuff made from tortoise shell**, ivory**, someone else's A/C, the army trying to sell once fired brass as scrap, etc..




*not it should be illegal bothered, just scratching my head, bothered. and it don't need it, hurts enough aldamnready.

**although some of the results can be stunning.

eh, better not to go there right now.

[Fly320s]

Tracks look like they belong on a Bobcat-size skid steer.  Check one of the tractor/equipment forums for an idea on price.

[freakazoid]

Some people just don't know the value of what they got. My grandpa recently passed away and when we was going through his things my stepdad found all his old fishing lures, and knowing that they can be worth some money grabbed them before they got tossed out. Now I know most people would think they are just junk and would of tossed them.

[Northwoods]

Found a place that will pay me to take them for recycling.  Going there tomorrow morning.  $200/ton.  I figure those tracks should get me $50-125 depending on what they actually weigh in at.  All I know is they're farking heavy.  Good thing the backhoe rental place flaked out and didn't come to collect it today like they said they would.  Made it much easier to get them in the bed of my truck.

$200/ton ain't much, but it's a heck of a lot better than the $90/ton I'd have to pay the dump to take them.

Taking some other metallic junk the previous owner left us while I'm at it. 

[Boomhauer]

Tracks look like they belong on a Bobcat-size skid steer.  Check one of the tractor/equipment forums for an idea on price.

They are either for a mini excavator or trackloader (bobcat size). They are also very expensive to replace on a mini trackloader or excavator. If they are wornout, then they are worthless as for thier intended use.

[Bigjake]

I'd pay double scrap value for a set of decent spare tracks for a mini excavator.  Last pair of new ones ran me $2500 bucks. What state are you in?

[Northwoods]

I'd pay double scrap value for a set of decent spare tracks for a mini excavator.  Last pair of new ones ran me $2500 bucks. What state are you in?

Washington. 

But they're already gone.  Got $104 for them (1040# between them).  Got rid of some scrap metal at the same time for an additional $34.

[Bigjake]

Ah, ok. 

Good scrap money though.  I like to try and drag at least one truck bed worth to the scrap yard a month.  Nice little supplemental cash flow.

[280plus]

yup, the tracks look bobcat related.

[Tallpine]

yup, the tracks look bobcat related.

sure it's not a lynx 

[280plus]

nyuk nyuk nyuk...

[KD5NRH]

now for some veer, anyone else noticing trends of people scraping things that are worth good money for materials that are worth less then half what the starting item is worth? it's starting to bother me*, fountain pens, nice jewelery, "clunkers", stuff made from tortoise shell**, ivory**, someone else's A/C, the army trying to sell once fired brass as scrap, etc..

What bugs me is the ones that will load a dishwasher or other appliance in the truck, haul it out along some county road and dump it, when they could have gotten money for it at the scrapyard.  Even if it's only $5-10, that beats burning the gas and effort to drive it 5 miles out and dump it, especially since the scrapyard will unload it for you.

We dragged a broken (as in, in pieces, no way anybody would mistake it for working or even repairable) copier out for trash pickup, and it didn't last four hours before I noticed that it was all gone except the plastic document cover.  Probably 60-80lbs of steel in that critter; I would've hauled it in myself but I didn't want to lift it up into the Blazer.