Re: Value of a K-37 hulk.

Casey Akin Wrote:
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> If there was a scrap yard within a small distance
> (i.e. same county), and you wanted to haul the
> entire engine to the yard, and you could find a
> truck to do it, and paid all the permits, and this
> scrap yard would take the bulk engine; you would
> be lucky to break even if the engine was given to
> you (or you owned it already).
>
> If you hired a crew of men to cut up the engine,
> hired the same or different crew to load the
> pieces onto trucks that you hired out, and the
> crew knew what they were doing, rented lift
> equipment to load the pieces, it would probably
> take a week minimum, and cost you at least $10,000
> in labor and machinery to achieve. You might come
> out ahead. Any variables, however, would increase
> the price. If the crew had to do studies to learn
> proper ways to cut up the engine, if the trucks
> encountered any obstacles, or materials weren't
> ready for pickup when trucks arrived, asbestos
> removal, anyone was hurt in the process, etc...
> than you again, would be lucky to break even if
> you didn't have to pay for the engine.

I suspect that we will all find out in a few years. Just three letters: EBT.

To quote Dickens:
"I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, none other of my race will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."