Acorn table

[Dan Dubeau]

Ok who want's to go halfsies on this with me, and slice it down the middle. Still too much money for what I'd want to spend on it, but man is it tempting.....
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-tool-other/...6877?cid=19d883b4-bdd9-4a8e-8562-0bbb451d0455

 

[YYCHM]

ACORN WELDING TABLE - 60 BY 84 - HEAVY DUTY, $4500, London ON​

 

[YotaBota]

You know if you split the table your guaranteed at some point to need a bit bigger table and then you'll be whining. lol

The Sharp milling machine in my shop was way to much money for me as well but,,,,,,,,

 

[Dan Dubeau]

60x40 is bigger than my current welding table so..... I'd just have to stay in close touch with whoever I split it with. "hey buddy....."

I have a lot of things that were too much money at the time too, but $4500/2250 is just too much right now. It's nice though.....

 

[Susquatch]

@Dan Dubeau

Good chance that price will dive as time passes Dan. I can't come close to paying my half of that. But there is a very limited market for stuff like that. When the price dips below a grand (or as sometimes happens - just come and get the GD thing), I am interested, an hour from London, have a 5 ton flatbed, and only want a table half that big or smaller. You could have 2/3rds but then there will be no calls like "Hey Buddy....." LMAO!

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Ya, I'm pretty sure that price will come down. As a habitual classifieds watcher, that will be up there a while at that price.
I need to do a rough weight calc and figure out where it is relative to scrap price. That is my baseline for a lot of purchases lol.

edit: Ok I found a couple others listing weights, and it's about 1-1.15lbs per square inch. So this guy being around 5000-5800lbs is from $0.9-$0.78 per pound. Not actually that bad. Still more money than I have to spend right now though

 

[Susquatch]

So this guy being around 5000-5800lbs is from $0.9-$0.78 per pound. Not actually that bad. Still more money than I have to spend right now though

Nothing ventured nothing gained. He still has to get it to a scrapper with all the associated rigamaroll. We will just keep an eye on it. If it dries up, it dries up.

Edit - I just looked him up. We likely won't be getting it Dan. Looks like the guy is a junk collector. He prolly bought it for a few hundred himself.

 

[cjmac]

Nothing ventured nothing gained. He still has to get it to a scrapper with all the associated rigamaroll. We will just keep an eye on it. If it dries up, it dries up.

Edit - I just looked him up. We likely won't be getting it Dan. Looks like the guy is a junk collector. He prolly bought it for a few hundred himself.

I don't think it is 5000 plus pounds. It looks like about 3" thick but I could be wrong.

This is a steel plate I got a few years ago. It is 1 1/2" thick and 42" by 95". As I recall, I calculated 1700 pounds for it. It will be the top for a workbench. Anyway, if you double the thickness, make it 18: wider and then account for all the holes in the other plate you could easily be in the 4000 pound area. When you start talking $1 per pound, a 1000 pound error is a lot.

Given all the holes in that plate, I also wonder if it was cast rather than being rolled and broached?

Things this heavy are not trivial to move around. I had to shorten the slings and get it much closer to the excavator before I could hold it with the blade up (so I could move).

That plate was on Used Victoria for $400-450 a few years back. There were two. The other went to a friend.

Chris

 

[PaulL]

My 41"x41" acorn came in at about 2000lbs, per the crane operator who delivered it.

 

[YotaBota]

If my math is good that puts 60x84 table at just over 5,000lbs.

 

[Former Member]

$1 per lbs, for cast??? Aluminium 6061 pieces is about $0.85-0.90/lbs, turns about $0.30/lbs, cast or steel is less, conservatively $0.25/lbs

Based on that scrap value is about $1,250.00 (generously 5000lbs).
$4500 is a little steep to start.

 

[Janger]

You'll want some good legs for that.