4 sale $350 obo

[308Mike]

This exercise just explains just HOW such a recycling operation to do such a thing would cost and drive any kinds of proposed profits into the ground. It's little wonder the countries which used to own suck hunks of metal are now happy to be rid of them and are no longer interested in them until the economics becomes feasible.

ANYONE ELSE can kiss my money-saving butt!!! LOL!!

[PawPaw]

We used to change barrels in the field with 10 ton truck mounted cranes. It's not a problem after you've done a couple of them and know the tricks of the trade. It takes about an hour to snatch the old tube out, install the new tube and hook up all the mechanicals. Then, the crew gets to boresight it.

[Precision]

would it be easier to dig a big hole under it and melt that dude down.

[blackeagle603]

yeah, I was thinking along those lines. Don't bring it to the foundry. Bring the Foundry to it. There's an idea -- a portable/modular foundry that could be transported and assembled over scrap then moved to the next pile of scrap (or drag other local scrap into the set up).

[toad]

Long ago I read a book by a Russian military defector (KGB in the GRU if I remember correctly) and he stated that they sold "Monkey Copies" of Russian armored vehicles to third world countries. These were vehicles that didn't pass the quality control for the Russian military and didn't have all the bells and whistles the Russian stuff had, like equipment to let them operate on a CBC battlefield. Gunsights would be eh, and etc.

[Whirlibird]

A couple pounds of explosive and some primacord would likely make a much easier to handle package out of that steel.

And cheaper than the other options, you just have to pick up the pieces.

[SoupOrMan]

Picture of wreckage plus "for sale" sign.

This leads to "Hang on, let me work up the math on this to see if we can make some money off the purchase."

I haven't said it lately, but I love this bar.

[Windy Wilson]

Picture of wreckage plus "for sale" sign.

This leads to "Hang on, let me work up the math on this to see if we can make some money off the purchase."

I haven't said it lately, but I love this bar.

You have to admire people with that breadth of knowledge who are willing to discuss such borderline frivolous things. From the sound of it, it is barely feasible to recycle that hulk if you're already in country.
Which leads me to another question: Are the various tanks blasted by the armies of Montgomery and the sainted Rommel in the Libyan/Egyptian desert still there, or was removal more feasible because they were much smaller than this one?

[Kommander]

I would guess that those old tanks were either rendered serviceable or striped for parts and left for the desert to consume.